Vol. 83, No. 41, pp. 469-476 9 Felmiary 1971 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON REDISCOVERY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ICTALURID CATFISH, NOTURUS FLAVIPINNIS Ry William R. Taylor, Robert E. Jenkins, AND/'<^^" "•'^'Wi^s Ernest A. Lachner / Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and\ ' LO ^ lyfl Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia ^^^/flQADiCa Noturiis flavipinnis, the yellowfin madtom, was described (Taylor, 1969: 201) from specimens collected between 1884 and 1893. Specimens were known with certainty from only three widely separated localities in the Tennessee River drain-age of Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Lack of recent col-lections led to the suggestion that it might be extinct. In May 1969, Jenkins took one adult specimen from Copper Creek, Virginia, a tributary of the Clinch River in the upper Tennessee drainage. Subsequently we have found, particularly from night collecting, that Noturiis flavipinnis is fairly common in lower Copper Creek. Another specimen taken in the Powell River, also upper Tennessee River drainage, during 1968 was received from Richard R. Fitz. Recause the species is known from only 13 faded specimens, our purpose herein is to present further descriptive, distribu-tional, and ecological data and to illustrate the species from recently collected material. New Material Studied: Tennessee: Hancock County: Powell River, mile 106, Alanthus Hill, 4 October 1968, Richard B. Fitz, USNM 204864 (1 specimen, 34 mm standard length). Virginia: Scott County: Copper Creek localities: along route 627, 1.1 road mi. upstream from jet. routes 627 and 665, 11 October 1960, USNM 204856 (11, 24-65 mm); along route 627, 1.3 road mi. downstream from jet. routes 627 and 665, 10-11 October 1969, USNM 204857 (17, 24-84 mm); at route 665 bridge, at Spivey Mills, 9 May 1969, USNM 204858 (1, 67 mm); at route 671 bridge, about 7.2 mi. NE. Gate City, 13 September 1969, 41— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 83, 1970 (469) sMiTHSoriiAN ^c^ 9 im
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