Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 319 



Synonyms and References: 



Pomolobus chrysochloris Rafinesque, West. Rev. Misc. Mag., 2, 1820: 171; and Ichthyol. Ohiensis, 1820: 39 

 (orig. descr.; type local. Ohio R.; type lost; length 12-18 in. attained; seldom ascend to Pittsburgh) ;^i 

 Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47(1), 1896: 425; 47(4), 1900: fig. 187 (descr., size, 

 distr., habits, value as food); Jordan and Evermann, .4mer. Food Game Fishes, 1902: loi (descr., range; 

 Lakes Erie and Michigan erroneously included); Bean, T. H., 7th Rep. Forest Comm. N. Y. (1901), 

 1902: 300, fig. (synon., range, habitat; reported to have reached Great Lakes through canals, but occur, 

 there seems doubtful); Bean, T. H., Bull. N. Y. St. Mus., 60, Zool. 9, 1903: 195 (synon., descr., value 

 as food, habits, distr.); Forbes and Richardson, Nat. Hist. Surv. 111., Ichthyol., J, 1908: 48 (refs., descr., 

 range, occur, in Illinois, size, habits); Coker, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (191 3), Append. 8, 191 4: 25-28 

 (large schools below Keokuk Dam, Iowa; discus, migr. and ascent up spillways of dam; occur, above 

 dam; spawn.); Regan, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8)79(112), 1917: 299 (refs., descr., range); Jordan, 

 Manual Vert. Anim. NE U. S., 1929: 40 (descr., range, habitat); Coker, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. (1929), 

 45' 1930: 165, fig. II (below and above Keokuk Dam, Iowa, migr., spawn., econ. import.); Hubbs 

 and Lagler, Bull. Cranbrook Inst. Sci., 18, 1941: 27 (not in list of Great Lakes fishes though reported 

 there earlier); Gunter, Publ. Inst. mar. Sci. Texas, I (i), 1945 : 25 (Texas coast, Colorado R. at Austin). 



Meletta suoerii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 20, 1847: 375 (orig. descr.; type local. Wabash 

 R., tributary of Mississippi R.); Bertin, Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 66, 1941 : 23 (ident. of type). 



Clupea chrysochloris Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 5, 1882: 247 (descr.; records two specimens; 

 from Galveston, Texas; and Pensacola, Florida); Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1882: 

 266 (descr., range; Lakes Erie and Michigan apparently includ. erroneously); Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 9, 1886: 11, 14 (Washita R., Arkadelphia, and Saline R., Benton, Arkansas); 

 BoUman, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 9, i886: 462 (few from Escambia R., Alabama); Gilbert, Bull. U. S. 

 Fish Comm. (1889), 9, 1891: 158 (near mouth of Escambia R., Alabama); Smith, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Comm. (1890), JO, 1892: 214, pi. 31 (Lakes Ontario and Erie); Evermann and Kendall, BuU. U. S. 

 Fish Comm., 12, 1894: 105 (Red R., Fulton, Arkansas; Galveston, Texas); Meek, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Comm., 14, 1894: 78, 82 (White R. at Batesville, Litde Red R. at Judsonia, Arkansas). 



River herring, Coker, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 45, 1929: 91-104 (discus, abund. below Keokuk Dam, Iowa, 

 1914-1916; dam a barrier to fish). 



Negative References: 



Clupea chrysochloris Meek (not of Rafinesque), Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 14, 1894: 85 (Mulberry, Arkansas, 

 but specimen USNM 62225 i^ A. alabamae). 



Pomolobus mediocris (Mitchill) 18 14 



Hickory Shad, Hickory Jack, Bonejack, Fall Herring, 

 Freshwater Taylor, Shad Herring 



Figures 76, 77, 79 



Study Material. Forty-three specimens, 105-460 mm TL, 82-354 mm SL, from 

 Provincetown, Massachusetts; Noank, Connecticut; Long Island, New York; Beesley's 

 Point, New Jersey; Annapolis, Love Point, Benedict, Barren Island, Lewistown, and 

 Smith Point, all on or near Chesapeake Bay, Maryland; Potomac River, Washington, 

 D. C; Buckroe Beach and Lynnhaven Roads, on Chesapeake Bay, Virginia; Beaufort, 

 North Carolina; and Brunswick, Georgia. 



31. The dau are from Richard E. Call's Ichthyologia Ohiensis (1899), "A verbatim et literatim reprint of the original, 

 with a Sketch of the Life, the Ichthyologic Work, and the Ichthyologic Bibliography of Rafinesque," the original 

 publications not being available to the author. 



