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(1874) and F. Mocquard (1886, 1889), have referred to or described 

 a species or so of fishes from Venezuela. 



The outstanding contributions by Franz Steindachner, from 1868 

 to 1917, were based largely on specimens from the Orinoco system. 

 His most important work, as far as Venezuela is concerned, appeared 

 in 1910 and 1917. 



Jacques Pellegrin (1899) reported on a small collection of fishes 

 from the Rio Apure system and wrote other papers from 1903 to 1912 

 that included Venezuelan records. 



During more recent years other authors have mentioned a few 

 species of fishes. Most important among these is Jan Metzelaar's 

 1919 report on the marine fishes taken by Dr. Boeke largely from the 

 Venezuelan locahties of Puerto Cabello, La Guaira, and Guanta. 

 Dr. Carl L. Hubbs in 1920 described a new goby from near Macuto. 

 Francesca La Monte in 1929 named two fishes from Mount Duida. 

 Ernst Ahl in 1928 and Enrico Tortonese in 1939 recorded a few fishes 

 from Venezuela. 



Although Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann and his coauthors published a 

 large series of papers on South American fishes, these give only casual 

 mention of Venezuelan localities except in a single paper (Eigenmann, 

 1920a). Dr. A. S. Pearse in 1919 and 1920 reported mostly on the 

 ecology of this same collection from the Valencia and Rio Tuy Basins. 



Henry W. Fowler, although mentioning Venezuelan fishes in several 

 of his numerous papers, made two reports (1911, 1931) on collections 

 made in Venezuela. The specimens on which Fowler based these 

 reports came from northeastern Venezuela from streams tributary to 

 the Gulf of Paria and from the lower Orinoco system. 



Dr. George S. Myers, who has written numerous short papers on 

 South American fishes, has referred to Venezuelan localities in several 

 published from 1924 to 1944. He devoted a major part of the following 

 contributions to Venezuelan fishes: 1927, "Descriptions of New South 

 American Fresh-water Fishes Collected by Dr. Carl Ternetz"; 1928, 

 "New Fresh-water Fishes from Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil"; 1932, 

 "A New Genus of Funduline Cyprinodont Fishes from the Orinoco 

 Basin, Venezuela"; 1935, "Four New Fresh-water Fishes from Brazil, 

 Venezuela and Paraguay." His latest and largest contribution on 

 Venezuelan ichthyology appeared in 1942 under the title "Studies on 

 South American Fresh-water Fishes, I," in which he described some 

 new species of fishes from the Maracaibo Basin, the first since the 

 time of Cuvier and Valenciennes. The collections of Venezuelan 

 fishes on which this paper was based were made largely by Dr. F. F. 

 Bond during 1938-1939, but the bulk of Bond's fresh-water fishes are 

 stiU at Stanford University and as yet not reported upon. 



Codazzi (1940) published a 3-volume work and mentioned common 



