Vol. 33, pp. 1 39-1 70 December 30, 1920 PROCEEDINGS OF THB BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON A LIST OF THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 1 Fourteen years have passed since my very incomplete work, "The Fishes of New Jersey," appeared. Using the old work as a basis, the attempt in the present paper is to gather all the data relative to the distribution of each species. Only counties are mentioned from which each has been recorded. Where additional notes and materials have been studied the localities are indicated in parentheses. This contribution is therefore offered as a slight aid to geographical distribution. Two confused blennies are also indicated as additions to the fauna. Samuel Latham Mitchill described four species from New Jersey, though only one is now admitted as valid. Like many other early writers he unfortunately proposed a large number of names which have fallen as synonyms. Charles Alexandre Le Sueur is really the first to carefully study New Jersey fishes. He described thirteen valid species and twenty-eight synonyms, though only four of the latter from New Jersey. Although Constantine Samuel Rafinesque described many of our species, very few were actually obtained in New Jersey. Achille Valenciennes described several New Jersey species and a great number of synonyms. Four species are credited to James Ellsworth De Kay, likewise many synonyms. Joseph Leidy, Theodore Nicholas Gill and John Adam Ryder were only incidentally interested in New Jersey Ichthyology. Papers omitted or subsequent to those in my "Fishes of New Jersey" are as follows: 1 Published by permission of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 30— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 33, 1920. (139)
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