REVIEW OF RAFINESQUE ON AMERICAN FISHES. 



The work known as the " Icbtliyologia Obiensis" was originally pub- 

 lished as a serial in the " Western Review and Miscellaneous Magazine", 

 Lexington, Ky., from December, 1819, to November, 1820. This fact of 

 publication by parts should, be kept in mind, as, in one case at least 

 (that of Aplesion), it may affect our nomenclature. 



The following are the dates of publication, for which I am indebted 

 to Professor Gill : 



Vol. 



No. 



n. 



III. 



I. 



II. 



III. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 



vn. 



VIII. 

 IX. 



Date. 



W.R.&M.M. 



LO, 



December, 1819 .. 



January, 1820 



February (?), 1820 



April, 1820 



May, 1820 



June, 1820 



July,1820 



October, 1820 



November, 1820 . . 



Page. 

 305-313 

 361-377 

 ?-57 

 169-177 

 ?-243 

 299-307 

 355-363 

 165-173 

 244-252 



Page. 



1-13 

 13-29 



?-37 

 37-45 

 45-53 

 53-60 

 61-69 

 69-77 

 77-84 



Quite a number of genera and species of American fresh-water fishes 

 were described by Rafinesque in other publications previous to the ap- 

 pearance of the Ichthyologia. I give a list of all these known to me, 

 with identifications. I exclude all names merely catalogued without 

 explanation, as having no claims upon our attention. In some cases, a 

 soecies was catalogued under one name and finally described under 

 some other. 



I have next inserted a complete catalogue of Rafinesquian genera, 

 arranged in chronological order, with their equivalents in the nomencla- 

 ture which I at present adopt. 



The body of this paper consists of a list of the genera, subgenera, 

 and species of the Ichthyologia, arranged in the sequence adopted by 

 Rafinesque, with the names, English, Latin, and French, as he gave 

 them, the misprints corrected by him in the "Errata" being here recti- 

 fied. The page in the Ichthyologia in which each description occurs is 

 added for the benefit of compilers of synonymy. Isext comes my iden- 

 ti6cation, with a partial synonymy of the species, the name which I 

 adopt being printed in capitals. In a subsequent paper on the fishes of 

 the Ohio Basin, the synonymy will be given in full, for which reason I 

 have preferred not to insert it here. 



