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listed in alphabetical order by the generic and specific name used in 

 the original description. If subgeneric allocation was made in the 

 original description, that name has been placed in parentheses between 

 the genus and the species. Holotypes or lectotypes are listed before 

 paratypes or paralectotypes. 



The following data appear after each name: (1) citation of original 

 description; (2) catalog number; (3) number of specimens and range in 

 standard length in mm. are in parentheses; sex is given in a few cases; 

 (4) locality; (5) collector; (6) date of collection; (7) determination of 

 current status with reference to pertinent Uterature. 



All original descriptions were consulted to help determine whether 

 a collection was actually type material. The generic and subgeneric 

 arrangement is modified from that presented by Bailey (in Bailey, 

 Winn, and Smith, 1954, and in Bailey and Gosline, 1955). The use 

 of the tribe Etheostomatini for the darters follows Collette (1963). 



Lectotypes were selected in some instances in order to stabihze 

 nomenclatm-e. The following people have assisted in the selection of 

 lectotypes: Dr. Charles F. Cole (subgenus Boleosoma) ; Mr. Donald 

 A. Distler (E. spectabile) ; Dr. Kobert V. Miller {E. hlennioides) ; Dr. 

 Edward C. Eaney (P. notogramma, P. crassa, subgenus Nothonotus); 

 Dr. WiUiam J. Richards (E. swannanoa, E. thalassinum) ; Dr. Chu-f a 

 Tsai (E. histrio, E. rupestre, and E. zonale). Brief data are presented 

 for each lectotype herein selected and the following abbreviations are 

 used: D = dorsal spines (Roman numerals) and rays (Arabic nu- 

 merals); A=anal spines (Roman) and rays (Ai-abic); LL=number of 

 lateral line scales; POM = number of preoperculomandibidar pores; 

 and INF = number of infraorbital pores. If the lateral line is incom- 

 plete, the number of pored scales is given first, separated from the 

 number of unpored scales by a plus sign; if the infraorbital canal is 

 incomplete, the number of pores in the anterior portion is separated 

 from the number in the posterior portion by a plus sign. 



Five nominal species are replacement names. No original material 

 was saved of the five species of darters described by Constantine 

 Rafinesque. Type material of 2 1 nominal species could not be located. 

 In instances where a type series was divided among several institu- 

 tions, we usually located some of the specimens. However, when aU 

 of the types of a form were deposited in one institution we were 

 occasionally unable to locate any specimens. 



About 1860, a considerable number of darters, including types of 

 16 species described by Charles Girard, were sent from the U.S. 

 National Museum to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Har- 

 vard University for Frederick Putnam to study. Many of these were 

 cataloged into the MCZ collection (table 1), and Jordan and others 

 subsequently believed them lost. Representatives from a number of 



