130 Melvin L. Warren, Jr. 



Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KFW). A detailed account 

 of methodology and a discussion of most collecting stations, including 

 macrobenthic, periphyton, substrate, and water quality analyses, was 

 presented in Harker et al. (1979, 1980). The bulk of the collections are 

 housed at the Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission (KNP). Other 

 material as noted is deposited at Auburn University (AU), Eastern Ken- 

 tucky University (EKU), Tulane University (TU), University of New 

 Orleans (UNO), University of Tennessee (UT), and in the collection of 

 Wayne C. Starnes (WCS). 



Species accounts include the catalog numbers, followed in paren- 

 theses by the number of specimens, the stream and major drainage, the 

 locality, county, and date of collection. All scientific and common 

 names follow Robins et al. (1980), except in the case of undescribed 

 taxa. 



Ichthyomyzon fossor Reighard and Cummins. Northern brook 

 lamprey. KNP SOICAR (2), UT 2.81 (2), WCS 1010-01 (2), Big Sinking 

 Cr. (Little Sandy R. dr.), 1.7 km above mouth, Carter Co., 31 May 

 1978; KNP K01CLA (1), Goose Cr. (S. Fk. Kentucky R. dr.), at Lipps, 

 Clay Co., 9 May 1978. 



Bauer and Branson (1979) recently reported this nonparasitic lam- 

 prey from the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River. Previously it was 

 reported from the upper Big Sandy and Barren rivers (Clay 1975), but 

 Burr (1980) did not recognize the latter record. The present collections 

 constitute a new record for the Little Sandy River and an extension of 

 the known distribution in the Kentucky River to the South Fork. All 

 specimens were adults and were taken from areas of swift current over 

 substrates of rubble interspersed with sand and gravel. Both the Ozark- 

 ian and Ohio Valley populations of /. fossor are relatively isolated 

 from the widely distributed orthern populations (Pflieger 1971; Rohde 

 and Lanteigne-Courchene 1980). The Kentucky distribution of /. fossor 

 strongly suggests that former tributaries of the ancient Teays River (e.g., 

 Big Sandy, Little Sandy and Kentucky rivers) (Hocutt et al. 1978) 

 served as refugia and redispersal points during and after Pleistocene 

 glaciation. Although its rarity in Kentucky is partly attributable to the 

 difficulty of collecting adults in preferred habitats (Bauer and Branson 

 1979), the Kentucky Academy of Science considers the species to be 

 threatened (Branson et al. 1981). 



Notropis galacturus (Cope). Whitetail shiner. UT 44. 1757(3), Russell 

 Fk. (Big Sandy R. dr.), below Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad bridge at 

 KY 80, Pike Co., 23 May 1978; KFW 1526 (38), Russell Fk. (Big Sandy R. 

 dr.), at mouth of Grassy Br., Pike Co., 30 August 1961 ; KNP BOl PIK (70), 

 Elkhorn Cr. (Russell Fk. Big Sandy R. dr.), 3.3 km W of jet KY 80 and KY 

 197, Pike Co., 1 1 October 1978; KFW 1521 (7), same locality, 29 August 

 1961; KFW 1643 (37), Clover Fk. (Cumberland R. dr.), KY 38 bridge, 

 Harlan Co., 27 September 196 1 ; KFW 1 508 (4), Laurel R. (Cumberland R. 



