X\I1I. A.\" A.NXOTATKI) CATALOG OF Till; ClCliLID 



FISHES COLLECTED BY THE EXPEDITION OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM TO CENTRAL SOUTH 



AMERICA, 1907-10. 



Bv John D. Haseman.^ 



During the last three years I had opportunity to examine most 

 of the cichlids herein recorded from the basin of the Amazon, and 

 from the principal rivers south and east of that basin. Owing in 

 part to the lack of suffuicnt material, many species in the past have 

 been founded on trixial characters. After studying such carefully 

 both in the field and in the laboratory, I have relegated several of 

 them to synonymy. Seventy-nine species are here recognized, of 

 which I nnself collected sixty-si.\. Both Pellegrin'- and Regan^ 

 have dealt in detail with the American CichlidcB. I have accepted 

 the conclusions of Regan, unless otherwise stated in the text. 



My thanks are due to Dr. C. H. Eigenmann, the Curator of Ich- 

 thyology at the Carnegie Museum, for the use of the literature, which 

 he placed at my command, and for many valuable suggestions; to 

 Mr. Witmer Stone and Mr. R. W. Fowler for enabling me to examine 

 some of the types of the Cichlidce named by Cope and prcser\ed in 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; and to Dr. W. J. 

 Holland, for the opportunity to prepare this paper and for his edi- 

 torial revision of the manuscript. 



The following list contains the description of eleven new species 

 and four new varieties.^ 



' This is the fourth paper relating to the E.xpedition to Central South America 

 published in these Annals. 



2 Contribution a I'Etude Anatomique, Biologique, et Taxonomique des Poissons 

 de la F"amille des Cichlides, Memoires Sociele Zoologique France, X.W. 1904, 41- 

 402. 



^Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7), XV, 1905, 329-347; XVI, 1905, 

 60-77, 225-243, 316-340; XVII, 1906, 49-66. Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 of London, 1905, i, 152-168. 



* Mr. Haseman presents in the following pages a list of the specimens taken at 

 •each place, with their lengths, the date of collection, and notes setting forth the 

 character of the specimens of each locality, when they differ from the generalized 



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