FISHES OP KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. 



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The above table shows that 191 nominal species of fishes have been described from 

 the Cumberland and Tennessee River Basins and other waters in Kentucky and Tennes- 

 see. Of this number tj are at present regarded as good species. Thus, of the total of 

 171 species admitted as constituting the fish fauna of Kentucky and Tennessee, only j-j 

 were originally described from those waters and 94 from other waters. 



The following table gives (i) the names of the ichthyologists who have described 

 supposedly new species from Kentucky and Tennessee, (2) the number of species de- 

 scribed by each, (3) the number of his nominal species now accepted as good, and (4) 

 the number not accepted : 



Authority. 



Number of 



species 

 described 



from 

 Kentucky 



and 

 Tennessee. 



Number 

 accepted 

 as good 

 species. 



Number 

 regarded as 

 synonyms. 



Rafinesque 



Cope 



Agassiz 



Jordan 



Storer 



Jordan and Evermann . . 



Dum^ril 



Jordan and Swain 



Gilbert 



Gilbert and Swain 



Henshall 



Putnam 



Jordan and Brayton . . . . 



Kitsch 



Evermann and Thobum 

 Evennann 



Total 



125 



19 

 13 

 6 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



91 

 3 



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