ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA — SCHULTZ 75 



Family ELECTROPHORIDAE 



Genus ELECTROPHORUS Gill 



Electric Eel 



Electrophorus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1864, p. 151. (Genotype, 

 Gymnotus electricus Linnaeus.) 



ELECTROPHORUS ELECTRICUS (Linnaeus) 



Anguila el£ctrica o temblador 



Gymnotus electricus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 427, 1766. — 

 Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877, p. 473 (Calabozo, Venezuela). — 

 Sachs, Aus den Llanos, 1879, p. 153, figs, on pp. 149, 154 (Apure). 



Electrophorus electricus Eigenmann and Allen, Fishes of western South America, 

 p. 330, 1942 (Venezuela). — Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 379, fig. 

 191, 1942 (Orinoco). 



Suborder Cyprinoidea 

 Family CYPRINIDAE 



Genus CYPRINUS Linnaeus 



Minnows 



Cyprinus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 320, 1758. (Genotype, 

 Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus.) 



CYPRINUS CARPIO Linnaeus 



Carp; Carpa 



Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus. Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 320, 1758. 



This species has been introduced into Venezuelan waters and on 

 April 3, 1942, 1 observed several in a small pond at Estanques, Merida. 



Suborder Nematognathoidea: Catfishes; Bagres 



My first report on the collections of fishes that I made during 1942 

 in Venezuela covered this group. The publication is entitled ''The 

 Catfishes of Venezuela, with Descriptions of Thirty-eight New Forms," 

 and it appeared in the Proceedings of the United States National 

 Museum, volume 94, pp. 173-338, figs. 1-5, pis. 1-14, February 11, 

 1944. This report contains an itinerary of my travels and a map 

 showing the localities where specimens were collected, along with a 

 Ust of collecting stations. For all of Venezuela 127 species and sub- 

 species in 63 genera and 12 families are listed. 



Since the publication of this report two papers have appeared under 

 my authorship on the catfishes of Venezuela: "Two New Species of 

 Fishes (Gymnotidae, Loricariidae) from Caripito, Venezuela," Zoo- 

 logica, New York, vol. 29, pt. 1, pp. 39-44, fig. 1, 2, pi. 1, May 10, 



