CYPRINID.E — THE MINNOWS AND THE CARP 



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TABLE V 

 Principal Cyprinid.« of Interior Lakes 



TABLE VI 

 Geographical Groups, Illinois Minnows 



preferring the OHIO 

 drainage 



Notropis illecebrosus 

 Ericymba buccata 

 Hybopsis amblops 



preferring THE MISSISSIPPI 

 DRAINAGE 



Chrosomus erythrogaster 

 Hybognathus nubila 

 Pimephales promelas 

 Notropis gilberti 

 N. hudsonius 

 N. lutrensis 



EVIDENTLY AVOIDING LOWER ILLINOISAN 

 GLACIATION 



Campostoma anomalum 

 Notropis blennius 

 N. cornutus 

 Ericymba buccata 

 Hybopsis kentuckiensis 



FREELY ENTERING LOWER ILLINOISAN 

 GLACIATION 



Hybognathus nuchalis 

 Pimephales notatus 

 Abramis crysoleucas 

 Cliola vigilax 

 Notropis whipplii 

 N. atherinoides 

 N. rubrifrons 

 Hybopsis amblops 



The first table, relating to the twenty-four most abundant 

 species, shows the relative frequencies of occurrence of each 

 species in our collections from each class of situations indicated 

 by the headings of the columns. The figures of these columns, 

 called coefficients of frequency, when larger than 1 indicate a 

 greater than average frequency in the situation named, and, 

 when smaller than 1, a lesser frequency. That is to say, if all 

 the species of minnows had been equally and uniformly dis- 

 tributed through all classes of situations, the coefficients of this 

 table would all have been 1. Referring, for example, to Cam- 

 postoma anomalum, in the first line of the table, it will be seen 

 that 195 of our collections contained this species. The number 

 of collections from larger rivers containing this minnow, as 

 shown by the figures in the second column of the table, were 



