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Cumberland River in Tennessee (Comiskey and Etnier 1972), this record, 

 included in Burr (1980), is the first reported occurrence in the Cumberland 

 River of Kentucky. One adult female was collected in a large, swift, 

 rubble-gravel shoal approximately 0.3-0.5 m deep. Other members of the 

 subgenus Nothonotus associated with E. tippecanoe were E. maculatum 

 sanguifluwn and E. camurum. The collection of one individual precludes 

 evaluation of the status of the species in this segment of the river; however, 

 E. tippecanoe is listed by the Kentucky Academy of Science as endangered 

 (Branson et al. 1981). 



Percina copelandi (Jordan). Channel darter. TU 120014 (3), Buck- 

 horn Cr. (N. Fk. Kentucky R. dr.), 0.7 km NE of KY 476, Breathitt Co., 19 

 June 1978; KNP C09MCY (4), Big S. Fk. (Cumberland R. dr.), 3.0 km N 

 of Tennessee state line at mouth of Troublesome Cr., McCreary Co., 29 

 August 1979; UT 91. 1790 (22), WCS 1009-02 (5), KNP uncat. (6), Russell 

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

 80, Pike Co., 23 May 1978. 



Burr (1980) regarded the channel darter as uncommon in Kentucky. 

 The presence of the species in Buckhorn Creek represents the first formal 

 record from the North Fork of the Kentucky River. Its occurrence in this 

 relatively small system is surprising in light of its reported preference for 

 big river habitats (Gilbert and Burgess 1980b). The population in the Big 

 South Fork of the Cumberland River apparently represents the second 

 reported locality from this system in Kentucky, although others have 

 noted it from the same drainage in Tennessee (Comiskey and Etnier 1972; 

 Page 1974; Gilbert and Burgess 1980b). An examination of the University 

 of Louisville and KFW museum records revealed that all the collections 

 reported by Clay (1975) from the Russell and Levisa Forks of the Big 

 Sandy River pre-date 1960. The channel darter is apparently persisting in 

 good numbers in Russell Fork as indicated by the present collections. 

 Habitat and species associates are presented under the Percina oxyrhyn- 

 cha account. The channel darter is considered of special concern in Ken- 

 tucky by the Kentucky Academy of Science (Branson et al. 1981). 



Percina oxyrhyncha (Hubbs and Raney). Sharpnose darter. KNP 

 B0 1 JOH (5), Levisa Fk. (Big Sandy R. dr.), 1 km N of River, Johnson Co., 

 2 October 1 978; WCS 1009-03 (4), UT 9 1 . 1 789 (7), Russell Fk. (Big Sandy 

 R. dr.), below Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad bridge at KY 80, Pike Co., 

 23 May 1978; KFW 1533 (49), Russell Fk. (Big Sandy R. dr.), mouth of 

 Grassy Br. at Kentucky-Virginia line, Pike Co., 30 August 1961; KFW 

 1225 (5), Levisa Fk. (Big Sandy R. dr.), mouth of Morgans Cr., Pike Co., 

 27 September 1960; KFW 1803 (34), N. Fk. (Kentucky R. dr.), Rocklick, 

 Breathitt Co., 19 September 1972. 



The darter subgenus Swainia is represented in Kentucky by three 

 morphologically similar species, P. oxyrhyncha, P. squamata, and P. 

 phoxocephala (see following accounts). Because of morphological similari- 

 ties, much confusion has resulted concerning assignment to species within 



