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Notemiffonus crysoleucas (Mitchill) . 

 Golden shiner. — Reported as Abramis 

 crysoleucas by Forbes & Richardson, 

 Thompson & Hunt, and other earlv au- 

 thors. FR 20 (Kaskaskia, Salt Fork, Mid- 

 dle Fork, Sangamon), TH 41 (all drain- 

 ages), LS 46 (all drainages). 



Notropis ornnis amnis Hubbs & Greene. 

 Northern pallid shiner. — Specimens of 

 this species referred by Thompson & Hunt 

 (on different pages) to Notropis hetero- 

 lepis, N. cayuga, and A^. c. atrocaudalis. 

 One of their specimens was subsequently 

 designated as a paratype of the new spe- 

 cies amnis. A re-examination of the 

 Thompson & Hunt specimens of "Notro- 

 pis blennius" still extant has revealed 

 specimens of amnis mixed with N . stranii- 

 neus from three stations on the Sangamon 

 near Fisher. TH 3 (Sangamon). 



Notropis atherinoides atherinoides Raf- 

 inesque. Common emerald shiner. — FR 2 

 (Salt Fork, Sangamon), LS 2 (Embar- 

 rass, Salt Fork). 



Notropis hoops Gilbert. Bigeye shiner. 

 — Reported as Notropis illecebrosus by 

 Forbes & Richardson, Thompson & Hunt, 

 and other early authors. FR 1 (Salt 

 Fork), TH 2 (Middle Fork). 



Notropis chrysocephalus (Rafinesque). 

 Central common shiner. — Reported as 

 Notropis corniitus by Forbes & Richard- 

 son, Thompson Si. Hunt, and other early 

 authors. FR 9 (Salt Fork, Sangamon), 

 TH 54 (Kaskaskia, Salt Fork, Middle 

 Fork, Sangamon), LS 64 (all drainages 

 except Little Vermilion). 



Notropis dorsalis dorsalis (Agassiz). 

 Central bigmouth shiner. — Reported as 

 Notropis gilberti by Forbes & Richard- 

 son, Thompson & Hunt, and other early 

 authors. FR 1 (Salt Fork), TH 5 (San- 

 gamon), LS 28 (Kaskaskia, Middle Fork, 

 Sangamon). 



Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Ei- 

 genmann. Blacknose shiner. — Reported as 

 Notropis cayuga and N. c. atrocaudalis by 

 Forbes & Richardson. Their records for 

 the Salt Fork and Sangamon drainages 

 presumably refer only to the blacknose 

 shiner. The species may have disappeared 

 from the county when the prairie sloughs 

 and natural lakes were drained. The speci- 

 men assigned to N . heterolepis by Thomp- 

 son & Hunt is actually N . amnis amnis. 

 FR 2 (Salt Fork, Sangamon). 



Notropis lutrensis (Baird & Girard). 

 Red shiner. — A species appearing in the 

 county since 1928. It is now abundant in 

 the Kaskaskia and upper Sangamon drain- 

 ages in a variety of river and creek habi- 

 tats. LS 21 (Kaskaskia, Sangamon). 



Notropis rubellus (Agassiz). Rosyface 

 shiner. — Misidentified as "Notropis ath- 

 erinoides, var." by Thompson & Hunt. 

 Our collections from the same stations 

 contain rubellus and not atherinoides. Of 

 the three Thompson & Hunt collections 

 labeled atherinoides, the one extant con- 

 tains rubellus only. TH 3 (Middle 

 Fork), LS 6 (Middle Fork). 



Notropis spilopterus spilopterus (Cope) 

 X hypsisomatus Gibbs. Spotfin shiner. — 

 Included in the composite Notropis whip- 

 plii of Forbes & Richardson, Thompson & 

 Hunt, and other early authors. Of the 

 53 collections of "N . whipplii" reported by 

 Thompson & Hunt, 34 are still extant and 

 have been reidentified. Thirty-two of 

 these contain spotfin shiners. Material 

 from the eastern side of the county (Salt 

 Fork and Middle Fork) is assignable to 

 the nominate subspecies on the basis of 

 both lateral-line scale counts and body 

 shape, specimens from the Kaskaskia 

 (western side) are apparently typical hyp- 

 sisomatus in both characters, and speci- 

 mens from the Sangamon (western side) 

 have nearly typical lateral-line scale counts 

 of hypsisomatus but are intermediate be- 

 tween spilopterus and hypsisomatus in 

 body shape. FR ?, TH 32 (Kaskaskia, 

 Salt Fork, Middle Fork, Sangamon), LS 

 63 (all drainages). 



Notropis stramineus (Cope). Sand 

 shiner. — Included in the composite No- 

 tropis blennius of Forbes & Richardson, 

 Thompson & Hunt, and other early au- 

 thors, but until recently called A'^. deli- 

 ciosus. The identity of the Forbes & Rich- 

 ardson specimens is not known, but prob- 

 ably the majority belong to this species. 

 Of the 44 collections of "blennius" re- 

 ported by Thompson & Hunt, 32 are still 

 extant and have been reidentified, reveal- 

 ing stramineus exclusively, or in part, in 

 all of them. FR ?, TH 32 (all drainages 

 except Little Vermilion), LS 93 (all 

 drainages). 



Notropis umbratilis cyanocephalus 

 (Copeland). Redfin shiner. — Reported as 

 Notropis umbratilis atripes by Forbes & 



