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<br />192 Bailey and Cross
<br />Farmers, Kentucky). Schrenkeisen, 1938: 15 (compiled). Driver, 1944: 451
<br />(compiled). Eddy and Surber, 1943: 57, 61 -62, fig. 4 (description; natural
<br />history; Minnesota records). Fonder, 1945: 21 (compiled). Gerking, 1945:
<br />29 (Indiana records compiled; also Vest Fork White River, Spencer, Owen
<br />Co., and Wabash River, New harmony, Posey Co.). Simon, 1946: 26, fig. 6
<br />a1T--1.a11; Wyoming records). Baughman, 1950: 121 (record
<br />from Eagle \h untain Lake near Dallas, Texas). Barnickol and Starrett,
<br />1951: 2SS -290 (abundance; size; utilization; Mississippi River localities).
<br />R;ue: and More. 1951: 16 -18 (Oklahoma records: Arkansas River, Spiro,
<br />1A Flare Co.. lle,i aver, west of Roosevelt; North Fork of Red Ri%r, west
<br />of Cooperton; Red River, below Denison Dam — identification verified ;u
<br />letter from Riggs). Harlan and Speaker. 1951: 36, pl. 4 (compiled; Iowa).
<br />Bailer. 1951: 190. 207 (comparisons). Bonn and hemp, 195-2:204 (Texas
<br />recor,is: M, Nita River, near mouth in Red River, Clay Co.: `hawnee Creek,
<br />below Denison Dam, Grayson Co.).
<br />mann and Beeson. 1905: 116 (Indiana rec-
<br />Scaphirhynchus platorhychus.— Eigenords compiled).
<br />Sc•aphyrhynchops platorynchus.—Fowler, 1911: 604 (generalized records).
<br />Scaphirynchus platorynchus. —Cross and Moore, 1951: 400 (compiled).
<br />Acipenser cataphractus.- -Gray, 1834: 1 ?2 -1 ?3 (original description; Mississippi
<br />River; .
<br />Scaphirhynchus cataphractes.- -Gray, 1951: 1S (synonymy; distrihution'i.
<br />Scaphirhynchus cataphractus.— Gunther, 1570: 345 (synonymy; description; New
<br />Orleans and generalized localities).
<br />Sea phirhynchus ratinesquii. — Heckel. 1536: 72 -78, pl. 3 (original description; Ohio,
<br />Wabash, Cumberland, Mississippi, and alissouri rivers —after Rafinesque.
<br />Scaphirhynchus mericanus.-- Giltay, 1939: '_8 -3'_, figs- 1-'_ (original descriptio..:
<br />" ... du Mexique [sans localite precisel, achete en 1859 a Parzudaky .
<br />Peut -etre le Texas, avant 1848 "; comparisons). Holly, 1936: 42, fig. 41
<br />(characters; distribution; photographs of type specimen).
<br />"nmenclature. —It is obvious from Rafinesque's (1820) original
<br />descr,,J n that -lceipenser platorynchus is a species of Scaphirh -
<br />clans, _although the structural characterization does not engender
<br />confidence, the fin -rah" counts, though too low for either species, agree
<br />better with those of the shovelnose sturgeon than with those of the
<br />qpallid sturgeon (S. album), as does the s "dorsal scales
<br />Ak tatement,
<br />a ' brownish." since Rafinesque described this species as very common
<br />in the Ohio. Wabash, and Cumberland rivers, it is clear that he was
<br />dealing with the present form.
<br />In reply to a query regarding the type specimen of _4ci penser
<br />P
<br />'= cataphracti s Graff-, 1834, Dr. Ethelwynn Trewaeas, of the British
<br />x....... Dluseum of Natural History, informs us that it must be a small
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