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believe that its status in North Carolina should be increased to endangered. The 

 spotfin chub has apparently been extirpated from at least Alabama and Georgia, 

 as well as from the French Broad River system and the Tuckaseegee River in 

 North Carolina, and it remains only in the Little Tennessee River; its status in 

 North Carolina should probably be elevated to endangered. A viable population 

 of the striped shiner is present in the Cane River. Its status of threatened in North 

 Carolina is appropriate. Although we did not collect the banded sculpin, E. Men- 

 hinick took 10 specimens in North Carolina in a creek tributary to the lower 

 French Broad River in 1994. Its status more accurately may be described as 

 endangered. The logperch was found at several sites in the French Broad River 

 and in Spring Creek. Its North Carolina status of threatened is warranted. Two 

 freshwater drum were taken in Spring Creek. We doubt that a viable population 

 of this species occurs in North Carolina, and it appears to be endangered. 



Of the nine listed species of special concern that we surveyed, the big- 

 eye jumprock and riverweed darter have apparently healthy populations in the 

 limited Dan River system area in which they occur in North Carolina. The 

 wounded darter in North Carolina apparently has been extirpated from the 

 French Broad River system, although it is still abundant in the Little Tennessee 

 River. Its status in North Carolina is more accurately described as threatened. 

 The olive darter apparently still occurs in very low numbers in the French Broad 

 River system, as well as in the Cane, North Toe, and South Toe, but its current 

 status appears too conservative. We believe that the mountain madtom and the 

 snubnose darter have been extirpated from North Carolina. We did not collect 

 the lake sturgeon, mooneye, or the river carpsucker, nor could we obtain any 

 recent records. The occasional specimens of these larger species, if they still 

 occur, would be exceedingly difficult to catch. If they have not yet been extir- 

 pated from North Carolina, they almost certainly do not today have reproducing 

 populations there. 



We report the first North Carolina specimens of the Ohio lamprey, from 

 Spring Creek, Madison County. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - We thank for assistance in field work those students 

 too numerous to mention here individually from The Richard Stockton College 

 of New Jersey (TRSCNJ) and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 

 and especially H. Jackson and T. Ward from the latter; this work benefitted great- 

 ly from their help. E. Menhinick, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, gen- 

 erously provided collection data from the French Broad River system. A. 

 Braswell, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, answered questions 

 on specimens in his care. We are indebted to all individuals, named and 

 unnamed in this paper, who kindly responded to our requests and provided infor- 

 mation. We are indebted to B. Bragin and to V. Schneider of the North Carolina 

 Division of Environmental Management (now with North Carolina Museum of 



