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Fig. 12. Distribution of the orangefin madtom, Noturus gilberti, in the Dan River 

 system. An open circle indicates an historical site where the species was not 

 taken in this survey. 



Patrick County 



TOWNES DAM 



PINNACLES 

 POWER 

 PLANT 



Surry County 



Orangefin madtom, Noturus gilberti Jordan and Evermann 



The orangefin madtom is a Roanoke River drainage endemic (Jenkins 

 and Burkhead 1994). Menhinick (1986) reported it from five North Carolina 

 localities in the Dan River from the Virginia line downstream to Danbury, all dis- 

 covered after 1968. Simonson and Neves (1986) found it at four Dan River sites 

 in 45.2 rkm in North Carolina during a 1985 survey; including three of the Men- 

 hinick (1986) sites. We collected two adults (photographed and released) at 2 

 sites (of 16 sampled) in the Dan River in North Carolina 1.6 and 7.3 rkm below 

 the Virginia line on 16 and 17 July 1992 (Fig. 12). Personnel from the North 

 Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission took two individuals (93 and 96 mm 

 TL) at an intermediate site on 5 October 1990 (A. Braswell, North Carolina State 

 Museum of Natural Sciences, personal communication, 1992) (Fig. 12). We did 

 not take it in three collections made at the downstream-most historical locality in 

 the Dan River near Danbury in Stokes County, North Carolina, nor in five col- 



