FISHES OF TEXAS AND THE RIO GRANDE BASIN. 
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1853ft. Spencer J?. Baird and Charles Girard. Description of- New Species of Fishes collected 
by Captains R. B. Marcv and Geo. B. McClellan, in Arkansas. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., August, 1853, 390-392. 
Page. 
Nominal species. 
Identification. 
Locality. 
390 
391 
391 
391 
391 
Pomotis breviceps . 
Lepomis megalotis 
Leporais cyanellus 
Notropis lutrensis 
Notropis bubalinus 
Cliola vigilax 
Otter Creek, Arkansas. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Pomotis longulus 
Leuciscus lutrensis 
Leuciscus bubalinus 
Ceratichthys vigilax. - 
1854a. S. F. Baird and C. Girard. Fishes [collected by Captains R. B. Marcy and Geo. B. 
McClellan in Arkansas]. Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852; by 
Randolph Marcy, Captain, Fifth Infan try, U. S. Army; assisted by George B. McClellan, 
Brevet Captain, U. S. Engineers. With reports on the Natural History of the country and 
numerous illustrations. Fishes, pp. 216-223, plates xii-xiv. Washington, 1854. 
This exploration of the Red River was made between April 50 and July 29, 1852. 
The party was accompanied by Dr. George C. Shumard, and it is, no doubt, to him 
that we owe the small collection of fishes which was made in Otter Creek, either on 
May 28-29 or July 12-14, the exact date being impossible to determine, as the party 
camped at the same place near the creek upon the return as well as upon the outward 
trip. This small collection was, apparently, made near their camp, which was situated 
about 4 miles above the union of Otter Creek with the North Fork of Red River, which 
is probably not more than 12 miles from the junction of the North and South Forks of 
Red River. Otter Creek, which was so named by Captain Marcy because of the 
abundance of otters there at that time, is described by him as a “ fine, bold, running 
creek of good water, rising in the Wichita Mountains and running a course south 
23° west. It is 50 feet wide and 1 foot deep at a low stage of water. The tem- 
perature of the water in the creek at our encampment we found to be 72° F.” [in 
May]. It does not appear from Captain Marcy’s report that any fishes were collected 
upon the expedition except those obtained in Otter Creek. This collection was a 
small one, consisting of but five species, all of which were regarded by Baird and Girard 
as new, and first described by them in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy 
in 1853. This paper was reprinted, practically without change, in Captain Marcy’s 
report, but with the addition of three plates illustrating each of the five species. From 
the table given under the preceding paper it may be seen that three of these nominal 
species are now accepted. 
1854ft. S. F. Baird and Charles Girard. Descriptions of New Species of Fishes collected in Texas, 
New Mexico, and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the IT. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, 
and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., March, 
1854, 24-29. 
In a footnote it is stated that “the species described in this paper from the 
waters of western Texas and those emptying into the Gila, were collected while the 
Boundary Survey was in charge of Col. J. D. Graham; the others, while under Maj. 
W. H. Emory.” In the following table is given a list of all the nominal species of that 
paper from Rio Grande and Texan localities, together with the present identification 
of each. 
