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Schilbeodes gallowayi Fowler, 1945, pp. 2, 32, 122, figs. 155-157 (original descrip- 

 tion; type,* ANSP 54723, Holston R., above Bluff City, Tenn.).— Bailey 

 and Taylor, 1950, pp. 31-38. 



Type.— USNM 29678 (holotype), Big Pigeon River, tributary to 

 [and near its junction with] the French Broad River, at Clifton [prob- 

 ably an error for near Newport, Cocke County], Tennessee, "taken 

 alive from mouth of watersnake," by David Starr Jordan and C. H. 

 Gilbert. 



Other material studied 



UNITED STATES: Arkansas: Caddo R.: UMMZ 169997. Georgia: 

 Chickamauga Cr.: USNM 161724. Illinois: Wabash R.: UMMZ (Bauman 

 nos. 46, 49, 50, 53). Indiana: Wabash R. system: USNM 40862, 121971, 

 121973, 121974; UMMZ 66597, 66624, 90376, 113554, 164578. Kentucky: 

 Green R.: UMMZ 88000, UMMZ 167258. Ohio R.: UL 7206, 7223. Kentucky 

 R.: USNM 199586. Levisa Fork: UL 6656. Ohio: Muskingum R. system: 

 OSU 843, 868, 973, 1009; OSU (no. F409). Scioto R.: UMMZ 87736; OSU 821, 

 1684, 1694, 2540; OSU (nos. F471, 3-38, 3-74). Other Ohio R. tribs.: UMMZ 

 86039; OSU 5157; OSU (no. F55). Oklahoma: Red R. drainage: Tulsa U 

 (Little R., Cerrogordo); UMMZ 155828 and OU (0AM no. 2863) (Mountain 

 Fork R., near mouth, sec. 10, T.7S., R.26E.). Pennsylvania: French Cr.: 

 USNM 161782. Tennessee: Tennessee R. system: UMMZ 103673, 112333, 

 129323, 154552, 157575, 158375, 159008; USNM 24840, 125474; CU 23454, 

 38189, 40113, 48608; ANSP 54723 (holotype of Schilbeodes gallowayi, Holston 

 R., above Bluff City, Tennessee, collected June 30, 1930 by J. Gordon Carlson). 

 Cumberland R. system: CU 48613; USNM 161725. 



Diagnosis. — Noturus (Rabida) eleutherus has a short caudal fin 

 with 39 to 52, usually 43 to 49 rays; typically 9 pelvic and 8 soft pec- 

 toral rays; 12 to 16 anal rays; and normally 2 internasal and 10 pre- 

 operculomandibular pores. The humeral process is of moderate length ; 

 the adipose fin is nearly free posteriorly; the coloration is rather 

 somber; and the blotch of the adipose fin extends only into its basal 

 half. 



In the subgenus Rabida, only ehutherus and Noturus hildebrandi 

 lautus have ten preoperculomandibular pores but N. hildebrandi has 

 eight pelvic rays. Unlike the miurus and most forms of the furiosus 

 groups, eleutherus has few caudal rays and a relatively short humeral 

 process; it lacks the midcaudal crescent present in members of the 

 furiosus group. From the hildebrandi and elegans groups, eleutherus 

 is distinguished by color pattern, a shorter, more chunky body, the 

 relatively free posterior end of the adipose fin, and the longer pectoral 

 spines. 



Description. — Counts and measurements are given in tables 17 

 to 26. Body rather short, heaviest forward; caudal peduncle moder- 

 ately narrow, a little deeper than snout; head slightly depressed, 

 especially before eyes; lower jaw included; premaxillary tooth band 



♦Material indicated by an asterisk has been re-examined. 



