LIST OF SPECIES OF FISHES KNOWN TO OCCUR IN THE GREAT LAKES OR 
THEIR CONNECTING WATERS. 
By BARTON WARREN EVERMANN, Ichthyologist , U. S. Fish Commission 
la the following list are given the fishes known to occur in the Great Lakes or 
then connecting waters. This includes not only the streams and smaller lakes 
directly tributary to the Great Lakes but also the upper St. Lawrence River and the 
waters tributary to it. The species not known to occur elsewhere than in the hydro- 
graphic basin of the Great Lakes are indicated by a star. 
The fish fauna of the Great Lakes is not particularly rich as to species, the 
number being scarcely greater than that known from the Wabash Basin. Of this 
list of 152 species and subspecies, only 27 are peculiar to the Great Lakes Basin. 
1. Petromyzon marinus unicolor (De Kay). 
Lamprey eel. 
2. * Ichthyomyzon concolor (Kirtland). Silver 
lamprey. 
3. Lampetra wilderi (Ctage). Brook lamprey. 
4. Polyodon spathula (Walba'um). Paddle-fish. 
Only one specimen recorded from Great 
Lakes Basin; that from Lake Erie. 
5. Acipenser rubicundus Le S. Lake sturgeon. 
6. Lepisosteus osseus (L.) . Long-nosed gar. 
7. Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque. Short- 
nosed gar. 
8. Amia calva Linnaeus. Dog-fish or bowfin. 
9. Ietalurus punctatus (Rafinesque). Channel 
cat-fish. 
10. Ameiurus lacustris (Walbaum). Great Lakes 
cat-fish. 
1 1. Ameiurus natalis(Le Sueur). Yellow cat-fish. 
12. Ameiurus vulgaris (Thompson). Bullhead. 
13. Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur). Common 
bullhead. 
14. Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque) . Small black 
bullhead. 
15. Noturus flavus Rafinesque. Stone cat. 
16. Schilbeodes gyrinus ( Mitchill ) . 
17. Schilbeodes exilis (Nelson). 
18. Schilbeodes miurus (Jordan). 
19. *Carpiodes thompsoni Agassiz. Lake carp 
sucker. 
20. Catostomus catostomus (Forster). Long-nosed 
sucker. 
21. Catostomus commersonii (Lacepede). Com- 
mon sucker. 
22. Catostomus nigricans Le S. Black sucker? 
23. Erimyzon sucetta oblongus (Mitchill). Chub 
sucker. 
24. Minytremamelanops (Raf. ). Striped sucker. 
25. Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque). White- 
nosed sucker. 
26. Moxostoma aureolum (Le Sueur). Common 
red horse. 
27. Moxostoma breviceps (Cope). Short-headed 
red horse. 
28. Campostoma anomalum ( Raf. ) . Stone-roller. 
29. Chrosomus erythrogaster Rafinesque. Red- 
bellied dace. 
30. Pimephalespromelas Raf. Fat-head minnow. 
31. Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque). Blunt- 
nosed minnow. 
32. Semotilus corporalis (Mitchill.) Fall-fish. 
33. Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill). Creek 
chub. 
34. Leuciscus elongatus (Kirtland). Red-sided 
minnow. 
35. Leuciscus neogseus (Cope). 
36. Leuciscus margarita (Cope) . 
37. Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay. 
38. Opsopoeodus megalops (Forbes). 
39. Abramis crysoleucas (Mitchill). Roach. 
40. Hybognathus nuchale Agassiz. 
41. -Cliola vigilax (Baird & Girard) 
42. Notropis anogenus Forbes. 
43. Notropis cayuga Meek. Cayuga minnow. 
44. Notropis heterodon (Cope). 
45. * Notropis fretensis (Cope). 
46. Notropis blennius (Girard). Straw-colored 
minnow. 
47. * Notropis volucellus (Cope). 
48. Notropis hudsonius (DeWitt Clinton). Shiner. 
49. *Notropis hudsonius selene (Jordan). Lake 
Superior shiner. 
50. Notropis whipplii (Girard). Satin-fin min- 
now. 
51. Notropis cornutus (Mitchill). Red-fin. 
52. * Notropis cornutus frontalis (Agassiz). 
53. * Notropis cornutus cyaneus (Cope). 
54. Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque. 
55. Notropis arge (Cope). 
56. Notropis rubrifrons (Cope). 
57. Notropis umbrati! is (Girard). 
58. Noti'opis umbratilis cyanocephalus (Cope- 
land). 
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