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Vol. 99 Washington: 1949 No. 3235 



A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF 



VENEZUELA 



By Leonard P. Schultz 



This paper is the third report on the collections made by me in 

 Venezuela during 1942 and those made by the U. S. S. Niagara in the 

 Gulf of Venezuela during 1924 and 1925. Other miscellaneous small 

 collections were included when they were found in the National 

 Museum, as were others kindly lent for study and report. To the 

 following I express my sincere gratitude for their kindness and coop- 

 eration: Dr. Reeve M. Bailey, Museum of Zoology, University of 

 Michigan, lent some of the Bond Venezuelan collections made in 

 1938-40. Dr. Karl P. Schmidt and Marion Grey, Chicago Natural 

 History Museum, lent the W. H. Osgood specimens taken in the 

 Maracaibo Basin. Dr. William Beebe, New York Zoological Society, 

 lent his collections from the vicinity of Caripito. Isaac Ginsburg, 

 U. S. Fish and WildUfe Service, identified all the specimens of Gobiidae 

 and Eleotridae in the above-mentioned collections. Dr. Samuel F. 

 Hildebrand, of the same Service, while working up his collections of 

 marine fishes from Panama, identified several species of Venezuelan 

 marine fishes and aided in many other ways. Luis Rene Rivas very 

 kindly checked the spelling of the Spanish names of fishes and of the 

 localities. 



My interest in Venezuelan ichthyology began in the winter of 1941- 

 42 when, at the invitation of Dr. GuiUermo Zuloaga, assistant chief of 

 explorations, Creole Petroleum Corp., Caracas, I undertook to study 



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