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Contributions to North American ichthyology : based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum ...
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- by David S. Jordan
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- Review of Rafinesque on American fishes
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- English
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- Washington [D.C.] : G.P.O., 1877-1878
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- 3 parts (53, [1]; 4 unnumbered pages, 120; 237, 1 unnumbered page, XLV leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm40382871
- In three parts, each with special t.p. and series title page, separate paging, index, and advertisement, signed by Joseph Henry, listing it as "the ninth [tenth, twelfth] of a series of papers intended to illustrate the collections of natural history and ethnology belonging to the United States and constituting the National Museum ... It has been prepared at the request of the [Smithsonian] Institution."
- The plates are in Part II.
- Series titles have note: "Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution."
- Running title of part I: "Review of Rafinesque on American fishes."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- I. Review of Rafinesque's memoirs on North American fishes / by David S. Jordan -- II. A. Notes on Cottidae, Etheostomatidae, Percidae, Centrarchidae, Aphododeridae, Dorysomatidae, and Cyprinidae, with revisions of the generea and descriptions of new or little known species. B. Synopsis of the Siluridae of the fresh waters of North America / by David S. Jordan -- III. A. On the distribution of the fishes of the Alleghany region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species / by David S. Jordan and Alembert W. Brayton. B.A synopsis of the family Catostomidae / by David S. Jordan