FISHES OF EL SALVADOE 241 
Table 1. — Localities in which collections were made in El Salvador and the species taken in each 
(The range of the species, as to whether extending north or south of El Salvador, or both, and also whether extending into both 
the Atlantic and Pacific drainages or the Pacific only, is indicated! 
Species 
Lakes 
i Ponds at El Angel 
Kio del Desague near Lake 
Guija 
Tribu- 
taries of 
the Rio 
de Paz 
Rio Sucio at Sitio del Niflo, 
tributary of the Rio Lempa 
I Small streams at San Salva- 
dor 
[ Rio Lempa at Suchitoto 
[ Rio Lempa at San Marcos 
I Rio San Miguel at San Mi- 
guel 
Salt and 
brack- 
ish 
water 
Range 
Guija 1 
Metapan 
[ Ahuachapan 
Chalchuapa 1 
Coatepeque 
S 
0 
O 
' X 1 Zapotitan 
i Uopango 
03 
bo 
a 
o 
O 
Rio Molino at 
Ahuachapan 
Rio Pampe at 
Chalchuapa 
Triunfo 
Cutuco 
North 
South 
El Salvador only 
1 Pacific slope only 
j Atlantic and Pa- 
cific slopes 
1. Astyanax fasciatus 
aanus 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
1 
X 
X? 
X 
X 
X 
2. Roeboidessalvadoris 
sp. nov - 
3. Galeichthys guate- 
malensis 
X 
X 
X 
x" 
X 
4. Arius taylori sp. nov. 
5. Rhamdia guatema- 
lensis 
1 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
6. Profundulus punc- 
X 
X 
X 
7. Mollienesia sphe- 
nops 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X XXX XX i 
X ixx X i 
X 
X 
"x 
X 
X 
8. Priapichthys leto- 
nai sp. nov. 
X 
X 
X 
10. Anableps dovii 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
n. Thyrina guija sp. 
nov - 
X 
X XX X X x; 
X X X XX 
X 
X 
'x" 
"x 
13. Agonostomus mon- 
X 
X X XX i i 
14. Centropomus ni- 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
17. Cichlasoma nigro- 
fasciatum 
X 
X 
"x 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
'x' 
18. C. macrocanthus 
X 
19. C. meeki sp. nov 
20. C. trimaculatum 
21. C. motaguense . 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
22. Gobiomorus macu- 
X 
X 
X 
X 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
The writer wishes gratefully to acknowledge the financial as well as other 
help given hj the officers of the Salvadorian Government. Thanks particularly are 
due to Senor Dr. Don Marcos A. Letona, Subsecretario de Fomento y Agricultura; 
Senor Hector David Castro, charge d'affaires of the Legation of El Salvador, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; Mr. Frederic W. Taylor, Director General de Agricultura; Senor 
Jose Antonio Sasso, chief clerk de Fomento y Agricultura; Seth H. Dyer; and 
Senor Carlos A. Siri, who served as secretary and interpreter throughout the 
expedition. The Avriter also wishes to acknowledge the many courtesies and the help 
given by Messrs. W. E. MuUins and J. H. Clegg, officers of the International Railway 
Co. of Central America. Messrs. Max Kohlmeyer and John Bocker, business men of 
San Miguel, also rendered helpfid assistance. To my colleague, Fred J. Foster, 
superintendent of the United States fisheries station, Neosho, Mo., who was with 
the author throughout the expedition, much credit is due for the success of the work 
