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Melanotaeniidae — rainbow fishes 



Melanotaenia nigran.t Ricliardson — Australian rainbow 

 fish. Extirpated; presumed escapes from a tropical fish 

 store were taken in the Mississippi River in Randolph 

 County in 1930 (O'Donnell 1935:491). 



Atherinidae — silversides 



Menidia aiidens Hay — Mississippi silverside. Not re- 

 corded from Illinois waters, but probable in the lower Mis- 

 sissippi River, in view of its known occurrence in the 

 Mississippi River in adjacent Mississippi County, Missouri 

 ( W. L. Pflieger, personal communication ) . 



Percidae — perches and darters 



Ammocrypta asprella (Jordan) — crystal darter. Prob- 

 ably extirpated, although still known to occur in adjacent 

 St. Louis County, Missouri (INHS); formerly occurring 

 in the Rock River and in clear streams of Effingham, Jo 

 Daviess, and Hancock counties, but not collected in the state 

 since 1900. 



Ammocrypta I'ivax Hay — scaly sand darter. Not record- 

 ed from Illinois waters, but possible in the southwestern 

 part of the state, in view of its known occurrence in ad- 

 jacent Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (W. L. Pflieger, 

 personal communication ) . 



Etheostoma stigmaeum ( Jordan ) — speckled darter. Not 

 recorded from Illinois waters, but possible in the south- 

 ern part of the state, in view of its known occurrence 

 in nearby Marshall County, Kentucky (iNHS) and in ad- 

 jacent Cape Girardeau County, Missouri ( W. L. Pflieger, 

 personal communication). 



Percina copelandi (Jordan) — channel darter. Not re- 

 corded from Illinois waters, but possible in the upper 

 Wabash River drainage, in view of its reported occurrence 

 in nearby Fountain and Warren counties, Indiana (Gerking 

 1945:88). 



Percina elides (Jordan & Copeland ) — gilt darter. Ap- 

 parently extirpated; formerly occurring in the Rock River, 

 but not collected in the state since 1932. 



Percina uranidea (Jordan & Gilbert ) — stargazing darter. 

 Recorded many years ago from the Wabash River in ad- 



jacent Knox and Posey counties, Indiana (Jordan 1890: 

 164); possible in the extreme southwestern part of Illinois, 

 in view of its known occurrence in adjacent Scott Counry. 

 Missouri (INHS;. 



Cichlidae — cichlids 



Tilapia species — tilapias. A limited number of recent 

 introductions of the species mossambica. macrocephala. 

 melanopleura, nigra, and sparmanni in ponds near Dundee, 

 Champaign, and Carbondale by personnel of the Fin 'n 

 Feather Club, Illinois Natural Histor)- Survey, and Southern 

 Illinois University, respectively, but no evidence of over- 

 wintering. 



LITERATURE CITED 

 Bailey. Reeve M., Chairman. I960. A list of common and 



scientitic names of fishes from the United States and Canada. 



Amer. Fish Soc. Spec. Pub. 2. Second ed. Ann Arbor, Mich. 



102 p. 

 ElGENMANN. CARL H., AND CHARLES H. BEESON. 1894. The 



fishes of Indiana. Ind. Acad. Sci. Proc. for 1895, p. "6-108. 

 Forbes. Stephen Alfred. 1884. A catalogue of the native 



fishes of Illinois. III. State Fish Comraiss. Rep. for 1884, 



p. 60-89. 

 , AND Robert Earl Richardson. 11908.1 The fishes 



of Illinois. Illinois State Laboratorj- of Natural Histor>' [Ur- 



bana]. cxxxi + 35" p. — separate atlas containing 102 maps. 

 Gerking. Shelby D. 1945. The distribution of the fishes of 



Indiana. Ind. Dep. Conserw. Div. Fish and Game, and Ind. 



Univ., Dep. Zool., Invest. Ind. Lakes and Streams 3(1) :1-15~. 

 Greene, C Willard. 1935. The distribution of Wisconsin 



fishes. Wis. Conserv. Commiss., Madison. 235 p. 

 Jordan, David Starr. 18"8. A catalogue of the fishe: of 



Illinois. III. Lab. Nat. Hist. Bui. l(2):3"?-"0. 

 . 1890. Report of explorations made during the summer 



and autumn of 1888, in the Alleghany region of Virginia, 



North Carolina and Tennessee, and in western Indiana, with 



an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins of 



tho,se regions, U, S. Fish Commiss. Bui. for 1888, S:9"-l"3. 

 Large, Thomas, [1903,1 A list of the native fishes of III nois. 



with keys. Append, to Illinois State Board of Fish Com- 



missioneis Rep, 1900-1902, 30 p. 

 Nelson. E. W. 1876. A partial catalogue of the fishes of Illi- 

 nois. III. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bui. lil);33-52, 

 O'Donnell, D, John, 1935. Annotated list of the fishes of 



Illinois. 111. Nat. Hist. Surv. Bui 20(5) :473-500. 



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