56 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICIITIIYOLOGV III. 



VI.— WATER BASIN OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER. 



The fish-fauna of the Teiiuessee liivor has been pretty fully studied, 

 especially as to its Cijprinida:. 'J liiity-seven species were obtaiued by 

 Prolessor Coi)e in the French Broad, thirty-four in the Ilolstou, and 

 twenty -live by Professor Jordan in tributaries of the Clinch and French 

 Broad, iuakin<jf in all some sixty different species known to inhabit the 

 upper waters of the Tennessee. In the lower course of the rivei', thirty- 

 four species are recorded by Professor Agassiz from thii Tennessee 

 Kiver at Iluntsville, Ala.; twenty species were obtained by the writers 

 from the Chickamauga Kiver at Ringgold, Ga., and seventeen species 

 from Elk Eiver at Estill Springs in Tennessee. About sixty-eight spe- 

 cies are therefore known to occur in the lower course of the river. In 

 all, eighty-two different species are Joioicn to inhabit the waters of the 

 Tennessee. To this number many species of large lishes inhabiting the 

 Ohio at the mouth of the Tennessee might, with certainty, be added; 

 but it is not the province of this paper to record guesses. Forty-six 

 species are therefore certainly common to the upper and lower courses 

 ot the Tennessee Kiver. • 



The species at present known in the Tennessee Basin, only liom the 

 upper course, — the Clinch, Holston, and French Broad Kivers, — are the 

 following: — 



Hadropterus aurautiacus. 

 Diplesium simoterum. 

 Nothonotus zonalis. 

 Nothonotus vulueratus. 

 Nothonotus rutilineatus. 

 Etheostoma llabellare. 

 Salvelinus fontinalis. 

 Alburnops spectruneuhis. 



IIyilroi)hlox rubricroceus. 

 11^ drophlox lacertosus. 

 Ei)isema leucioda. 

 Notropis uiicropteryx. 

 Notropis atherinoides. 

 Hemitremia vittata. 

 Placopharynx carinatus. 



Noturus eleutherus, 



Jn all, sixteen species. 



From the lower course of the river <»nly, the following are known :- 



("Etheostoma") cinerea. 

 ("Etheostoma") tessellata. 

 Puicilichthys jessiie. 

 Chajnobryttus gulosus. 

 Lcpio[)omus obseurns. 

 (Lei)i()pomus) l)jinl)il'roMs. 

 Eupomotis pallitlu."5. 



Xenotis inscriptus. 



Esox (crassus). 



Uyodon selenops. 



Pomolobus chrysochloris. 



Dorosoma eepedianiim lieterurum. 



Notropis lirns. 



Plioxirms llammeus. 



