56 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY III. 



VI.— WATER-BASIN OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER. 



The fish-fanua of the Tennessee Kiver has been pretty fully studied, 

 especially as to its Cypriniclcc. Thirty-seven species were obtained by 

 Prolessor Cope in the French Broad, thirty-four in the Holstou, and 

 twenty-five by Professor Jordan in tributaries of the Clinch and French 

 Broad, makinj? in all some sixty different species known to inhabit the 

 upjx'r waters of the Tennessee. In the lower course of the river, thirty- 

 four species are recorded by Professor Agassiz from the Tennessee 

 Eiver at Huntsville, Ala. ; twenty species were obtained b^' the writers 

 from the Chickamauga Eiver at Ringgold, Ga., and seventeen species 

 from Elk River at Estill Springs in Tennessee. About sixty-eight spe- 

 cies are therefore known to occur in the lower course of the river. In 

 all, eighty-two different species are known to inhabit the waters of the 

 Tennessee. To this number many species of large fishes inhabiting the 

 Ohio at the mouth of the Tennessee might, with certainty, be added; 

 but it is not the province of this paper to record guesses. Forty-six 

 species are therefore certainly common to the upper and lower courses 

 of the Tennessee River. 



The species at present known in the Tennessee Basin, only from the 

 upper course, — the Clinch, Holston, and French Broad Rivers, — are the 

 following : — 



Hadropterus aurantiacus, 

 Diplesium simoterum. 

 Nothonotus zonalis. 

 Nothonotus vulneratus. 

 NotLonotus rufilineatus. 

 Etheostoma flabellare. 

 Salvelinus fontinalis. 

 Alburnops spectrunculus. 



Hydrophlox rubricroceus. 

 Hydrophlox lacertosus, 

 Episema leucioda. 

 Notropis micropteryx. 

 Notropis atherinoides. 

 Hemitremia vittata. 

 Placopharynx carinatus. 



Noturus eleutherus. 



In all, sixteen species. 



From the lower course of the river only, the following are known :- 



("Etheostoma") cinerea. 

 ("Etheostoma") tessellata. 

 Poecilichthys jessise. 

 Chsenobryttus gulosus. 

 Lepiopomus obscurus. 

 (Lepiopomus) bombifrons. 

 Eupomotis pallidus. 



Xenotis inscriptus. 



Esox (crassus). 



Hyodon selenops. 



Pomolobus chrysochloris. 



Dorosoma cepedianum heterurum. 



Notropis lirus. 



Phoxinus flammeus. 



