Vol. 33, pp. 1 39- 1 70 December 30, 1920 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THB 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A LIST OF THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 

 BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 1 



Fourteen years have passed since my very incomplete work, 

 "The Fishes of New Jersey," appeared. Using the old work 

 as a basis, the attempt in the present paper is to gather all 

 the data relative to the distribution of each species. Only 

 counties are mentioned from which each has been recorded. 

 Where additional notes and materials have been studied the 

 localities are indicated in parentheses. This contribution is 

 therefore offered as a slight aid to geographical distribution. 

 Two confused blennies are also indicated as additions to the 

 fauna. 



Samuel Latham Mitchill described four species from New 

 Jersey, though only one is now admitted as valid. Like many 

 other early writers he unfortunately proposed a large number 

 of names which have fallen as synonyms. Charles Alexandre 

 Le Sueur is really the first to carefully study New Jersey 

 fishes. He described thirteen valid species and twenty- 

 eight synonyms, though only four of the latter from New 

 Jersey. Although Constantine Samuel Rafinesque described 

 many of our species, very few were actually obtained in New 

 Jersey. Achille Valenciennes described several New Jersey 

 species and a great number of synonyms. Four species are 

 credited to James Ellsworth De Kay, likewise many synonyms. 

 Joseph Leidy, Theodore Nicholas Gill and John Adam Ryder 

 were only incidentally interested in New Jersey Ichthyology. 



Papers omitted or subsequent to those in my "Fishes of 

 New Jersey" are as follows: 



1 Published by permission of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 30— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 33, 1920. (139) 



