PART IV. 



CATALOGUE OF THE FRESH-WATER FISHES OF 

 TROPICAL AND SOUTH TEMPERATE 



AMERICA. 



BY 



C. H. EIGENMANN, 



INDIANA UNIVERSITY. 



IN the following list are enumerated the orders, families, genera and 

 species of fishes inhabiting the fresh waters of the West Indies, 

 South America, and Middle America south of a line joining the Rio 

 Panuco on the east and the Rio Presidio near Mazatlan on the west. The 

 list attempts to be complete to June, 1909.* 



Under each genus will be found the synonyms and the type of the 

 genus, and the total range of its species. The range will be the sum of 

 the distributions of the species enumerated, except in cases of genera 

 having extralimital species. 



Under each species are given its synonyms and the geographical dis- 

 tribution. 



Opposite each species, except in the case of the Characins and species 

 dealt with in the Patagonian section of this work, will be given a refer- 

 ence which will connect this work with the literature on the species. 



A catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of South America was published 

 by Eigenmann and Eigenmann in the Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, 1891, and a catalogue of the Middle American species 

 in the same serial for 1892. Free use has been made of these catalogues. 

 The task of bringing the work down to date has been greatly lessened 

 by the following works of recent years : 

 Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle America. Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 47, Washington, 1896-1898. 



* The entire MS. was completed to 1906. Delay in publication has enabled me to bring the 

 catalogue down to June, 1909. In consequence of bringing the catalogue down to 1909 some 

 discrepancies between the preceding and following lists of species will be found. An especially 

 large number of additions are made to the Characins and the fauna of Guiana. 



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