Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife51920baus (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Motes on Fundulus luciae D. R. CRAWFORD United States Bureau of Fisheries 1
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Fundulus luciae Baird's Killifish This attractive little minnow was first described by Professor S. F. Baird un- der the name of Hydrargyra luciae from a few specimens which he colllected at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. His de- scription may be found in the Smithson- ian Report for 1854, but evidently his specimens have disappeared, and nothing further was -known of this minnow until Dr. H. M. Smith, Commissioner of Fish- eries, in the summer of 1890, collected two specimens on St. George Island which is near the mouth of the Potomac River. He has described it under the name of Zygonectes luciae in the Bulle- tin of the U. S. Fish Commission, Vol- ume X, for 1890, and pictures it in a drawing on Plate XVHI, which accom- panies his article. Since 1890, nothing further has been added to our knowl- edge, Jordan and Evermann merely changing the name to Fundulus luciae, and using Dr. Smith's description which is sufficient and need not be repeated here. The writer had occasion to collect ten specimens of Fundulus luciae while vis- iting Lewisetta, Virginia, across the river from St. George Island, for the purpose of collecting other fishes, and, since very little seems to be known of the habits of this minnow, no excuse

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