trapped in the tide pools of Cape Arago, Oreg. It 

 was suspected they were spawning near shore 

 (Jopson, 1958). 



Literature Cited 



Service on the Oregon side of the Columbia River 

 about 75 km upstream from Astoria. The fish, 

 shown in Figure 1, was taken in shallow water 

 with a 100-m long beach seine. River temperature 



Day, D. S., and W. G. Pearcy. 



1968. Species associations of benthic fishes on the continen- 

 tal shelf and slope off Oregon. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 

 25:2665-2675. 

 GooDE, G. B., AND T. H. Bean. 



1895. Oceanic ichthyology. U.S. Natl. Mus., Spec. Bull. 2, 

 553 p. 

 Halstead, B. W. 



1970. Poisonous and venomous marine animals of the 

 world, Vol. 3-Vertebrates (continued^. U.S. Gov. Print. 

 Off., Wash., D. C, 1,006 p. 

 Hart, J. L. 



1973. Pacific fishes of Canada. Fish. Res. Board Can., Bull. 

 180, 740 p. 

 Jopson, H. G. M. 



1958. A concentration of the ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei 

 Cape Arago, Oregon. Copeia 1958:232. 

 Sathyanesan, a. G. 



1966. Egg-laying of the chimaeroid fish. Hydrolagus colliei. 

 Copeia 1966:132-134. 

 Simmons, J. E., and J. S. Laurie. 



1972. Study of Gyrocotyle in the San Juan Archipelago, 

 Paget Sound, U.S.A., with observations on the host, 

 Hydrolagus colliei (Lay and Bennett). Int. J. Parasitol. 

 2:59-77. 



Joseph T. Durkin 

 David A. Misitano 



Northwest Fisheries Center 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 

 2725 Montlake Boulevard East 

 Seattle, WA 98112 



Figure 1. — Eastern banded killifish, Fundulus diaphanus 

 diaphanus, captured in the lower Columbia River. 



on the date of capture was 19°C. The specimen was 

 59 mm in standard length, and coloration was 

 similar to that described by Trautman (1957) for 

 the species, olivaceous on the dorsal surface with a 

 light yellow ventral surface. This specimen also 

 possessed an iridescent blue-green stripe horizon- 

 tally along each side, which faded rapidly after 

 capture. It is now in the collection of the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service Biological Field Station 

 at Hammond, Oreg. Additional specimens have 

 not been taken in the area, and the authors con- 

 clude that the presence of the fish was probably 

 due to an unauthorized release. 



The authors wish to thank Carl E. Bond, Oregon 

 State University, Corvallis, Oreg. and Carl L. 

 Hubbs, University of Cahfornia, La Jolla, Cahf. 

 for verifying the identification of the killifish and 

 their review of the manuscript. 



UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE OF 



AN EASTERN BANDED KILLIFISH 



IN THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER 



The recorded geographic range for the eastern 

 banded killifish, Fwncfw/ws diaphanus diaphanus, 

 is in the waters of the Atlantic coastal states from 

 South Carolina north to Newfoundland. They 

 occur in lakes, quiet rivers, and Atlantic coast 

 estuaries (Hubbs and Lagler, 1958). 



On 19 August 1971, an eastern banded killifish 

 was collected by the National Marine Fisheries 



Literature Cited 



Hubbs, C. L., and K. F. Lagler. 



1958. Fishes of the Great Lakes region. Revised ed. Cran- 

 brook Inst. Sci., Bull. 26, 213 p. 

 Trautman, M. B. 



1957. The fishes of Ohio. Waverly Press, Inc., Baltimore, 

 683 p. 



David A. Misitano 

 Carl W. Sims 



Northwest Fisheries Center 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 

 2725 Montlake Boulevard East 

 Seattle. WA 98112 



855 



