1 14 Dan A. Cincotta, et al. 



USNM (F. C. Rohde, pers. comm.) are the only verifiable records of 



this lamprey from West Virginia. 



Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, Mississippi silvery minnow 



Pflieger (1980) indicated that H. nuchalis contains three nominal 

 subspecies of uncertain relationships that probably qualify for specific 

 designations due to their morphological distinctiveness and allopatric 

 ranges. The two forms whose ranges encompass West Virginia are H. n. 

 nuchalis, of the Mississippi River and Mobile Bay drainages, and H. n. 

 regius, of the Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence, and Atlantic slope drainages 

 south to Altamaha River, Georgia (Pflieger 1980). Lee et al. (1980) and 

 Robins et al. (1980) recognized the specific distinctiveness of H. regius 

 (see Hubbs and Lagler 1958 for characters). To date, there are no pub- 

 lished records of Hybognathus regius from West Virginia (C. H. Hocutt, 

 pers. comm.; Pflieger 1980). Hybognathus nuchalis was apparently first 

 collected from the state in 1888 from the mouth of the Big Sandy River, 

 Wayne County (Everman 1918). Raney (1947) confirmed the only other 

 silvery minnow record from the Monongahela River drainage, based on 

 a specimen misidentified as Notropis whipplei by Goldsborough and 

 Clark (1908). The exclusion of these records in Jenkins et al. (1972), 

 Pflieger (1980), and Stauffer et al. (1978, 1982) is attributed to either 

 oversight or absence of verifiable materials. Absence of H. nuchalis 

 from recent collections from the upper Ohio River drainages (Preston 

 and White 1978, Trautman 1981) and H. regius from the upper Potomac 

 River drainages (Mathews et al. 1978; Stauffer et al. 1978; Goodfellow 

 and Lebo 1981; Cincotta et al., in ms.) suggests that both are either rare 

 in or extirpated from these waters. Trautman (1957) attributed the 

 silvery minnow's extirpation from Ohio to turbidity and siltation. 

 Notropis dorsalis (Agassiz), bigmouth shiner 



The bigmouth shiner is found primarily in the upper Mississippi 

 and Great Lakes (excluding Lake Huron) drainages (Gilbert and Bur- 

 gess 1980a). It is discontinuously distributed in the eastern part of its 

 range. Prior to Gilbert and Burgess (1980a), only Schwartz (in Jenkins 

 et al. 1972) and Denoncourt et al. (1975) indicated its presence in West 

 Virginia. Schwartz regarded the species native to the Little Kanawha 

 River, but a lack of verifiable specimens led C. R. Gilbert (pers. comm.) 

 and Stauffer et al. (1982) to doubt this assumption. Gilbert and Burgess 

 (1980a) indicated a single Monongahela River drainage record for West 

 Virginia (UMMZ 198279, Tygart River, collected and identified by C. 

 L. Hubbs and M. B. Trautman). Omission of this shiner from past liter- 

 ature on the Monongahela River is attributed to the obscurity of the 

 record. Notropis dorsalis is probably extirpated from the state, as it has 

 not been collected since 1932. 



