Rechannelization may have extirpated them from some of their natural ranges into Alabama, but brighteye darters have been able to find more suitable streams as they travel up the Mississippi River system.

[4] The larval stages of these flies are an important component of the bottom of the aquatic ecosystem in which the brighteye darter resides.

The algae forming on the rocks of the streams makes a great adhesive area for the eggs of the female to attach.

[6] The brighteye darter was first formally described in 1885 by the American ichthyologist Oliver Perry Hay (1846–1939)/ with the type locality given as a shallow rocky branch of the Chickasawha River at Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi.

[7] The specific name lynceum refers to Lynceus of Messenia, one of the Argonauts who took part in a mythical voyage on board the Argo with Jason.

[8] Currently, no management plan is in place for the brighteye darter, mainly due to its ability to react to environmental stressors easily and its widespread distribution.