. Annotated catalog of type specimens in the Illinois Natural History Survey Fish Collection. Illinois. Natural History Survey Division; Fishes. 254 Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin Vol. 35 Art. 5 (NEODAT WWW site). Approximately half of the specimens are from Illinois; the remainder are from elsewhere in North America (30%), South America (18%), and the rest of the world (2%). The North American ichthyofauna is represented by collections from 47 of the 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Puerto Rico. The South American material includes specimens from Bolivia, Brazil, P
. Annotated catalog of type specimens in the Illinois Natural History Survey Fish Collection. Illinois. Natural History Survey Division; Fishes. 254 Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin Vol. 35 Art. 5 (NEODAT WWW site). Approximately half of the specimens are from Illinois; the remainder are from elsewhere in North America (30%), South America (18%), and the rest of the world (2%). The North American ichthyofauna is represented by collections from 47 of the 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Puerto Rico. The South American material includes specimens from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela. The value of the INHS collection is greatly enhanced by historical holdings of Illinois fishes dating from 1873 to 1909. Referred to as the "Forbes and Richardson Collection," this material (20,385 specimens in 2,624 lots) represents about 10% of the original ISLNH fish collection and includes many species now extirpated or rare in Illinois. The oldest specimen in the INHS collec- tion is a sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus Pallas 1771, from the Ural River, former Soviet Union, collected by Dr. Lewerzow in 1862. This specimen and several other Soviet sturgeons were donated to ISLNH by Dr. Leo S. Berg from the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of in Leningrad [= St. Petersburg]. Berg was an eminent teacher and ichthyologist who specialized in the classification and systematics of sturgeons (Family Acipenseridae). The donation was probably in exchange for syntypic material sent to Berg of the pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus, a species described from Illinois by Forbes and Richardson in 1905. Also of exceptional value is a specimen of the harelip sucker, Moxostoma lacerum (Jordan and Brayton 1877), collected from Cypress Creek (Tennessee River drainage), Alabama. Re- ceived from Gilbert, the specimen was collected during his ichthyological explorations of Alabama in the summer of 1889 (Gilbert 1891: 147). The harelip sucker
Size: 2255px × 1109px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorillinoisnaturalhis, bookcentury1900, booksubjectfishes
