ANNOTATED LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN THE VICINITY 

 OF GREENWOOD, MISS., WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE 

 NEW SPECIES 



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By 



SAMUEL F. HILDEBRAND, Director, United States Biological Station, Beaufort, N. C. 



and 



IRVING L. TOWERS, Formerly Junior Aquatic Biologist, United States Biological Station, 



Beaufort, N. C. 



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CONTENTS 



Pago 



Introduction 105 



Description of the collecting places 107 



Polyodon spathula (Walbaum) 110 



Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus) 111 



Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque 111 



Lepisosteus tristcechus (Bloch and Schnei- 

 der) 113 



Amia calva Linnaeus 113 



Dorosoma cepedianum (Le Sueur) 114 



Ictiobus Rafinesque 114 



Ictiobus cyprinella (Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes) 114 



Ictiobus bubalus (Rafinesque) 115 



Ictiobus urus ( Agassiz) 115 



Carpiodes difformis Cope 116 



Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz 117 



Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill) 117 



Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque 117 



Notropis cooglei n. sp 118 



Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill) 119 



Ictalurus furcatus (Le Sueur) 119 



Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque) 120 



Ictalurus anguilla Evermann and Ken- 

 dall 120 



Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur) 121 



Ameiurus natalis (Le Sueur) 121 



Leptops olivaris (Rafinesque) 121 



Schilbeodes gyrinus (Mitchill) 



Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque) 



Fundulus kompi n. sp 



Gambusia patruelis (Baird and Girard) _ 1 



Aphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams) 



Boleosoma camurum Forbes 



Copelandellus fusiformis (Girard) 



Pomoxis Rajinesque 



Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque 



Pomoxis sparoides (Lac6p£de) 



Pomoxis barberi n. sp 



Chsenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier and Va- 

 lenciennes) 



Centrarchus macropterus (Lac6pede) 



Apomotis cyanellus (Rafinesque) 



Lepomis incisor (Cuvier and Valencien- 

 nes) 



Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque) 



Lepomis symmetricus Forbes 



Lepomis humilis (Girard) 



Lepomis heros (Baird and Girard) 



Micropterus salmoides (Lac6pede) 



Elassoma zonatum Jordan 



Morone interrupta Gill 



Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque 



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INTRODUCTION 



The collection of fishes upon which the present report is based was made mostly 

 during the summer of 1925 by the junior author within a radius of about 8 miles of 

 Greenwood, Miss., while engaged in an investigation relative to the use of fish for con- 



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