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ÖtVersigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akadeniieiis Förhandlingav 1894. N:o 3. 



Stockholm. 



List of iishes observed and collected in South-Florida. 

 By Dr Einar Lönnberg. 



[Presented 1894, Mars 14, by F. A. Smitt.] 



The following list of fishes collected or observed during a 

 sojourn in Floi'ida from the fall 1892 to the summer 1893 em- 

 braces naturally enough not all fishes hitherto found in Florida, 

 but will give the names of the characteristic forms and also 

 some new ones heretofore not observed there. With my small 

 means I could not make coUections and researches to such an 

 extent as I wished. I hope however that I have been able to 

 add a little to the kuowledge of the fishfauna of Florida. The 

 marine fishes were collected at difl'erent points of the westcoast 

 from Hillsborough Co. and south to Key West and at New 

 Smyraa at the east coast. The freshwaterfishes are mainly 

 from Orange, Osceola and De Soto Counties. The riches in 

 small freshwaterfishes »minnows» is something characteristic for 

 Florida and not few of these have not been observed outside 

 that State. »Florida ist eine tropische Provinz nicht bloss was 

 die Meeresfische betriff"t, sondern auch die Süsswasserfische» writes 

 Prof. Dr J. Palacky in his book »Die Verbreitung der Fische» 

 (Prag 1891). If we now want to make a more special research 

 in this question, we shall find that it is not exactly consentient 

 to the fact. The marine fishes can be divided in four classes, 

 hut it is of course difficult to maintain sharp limits. 1) Fishes. 



