Wayne C. Starnes

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Sicydiine gobies are major contributors to Caribbean stream fish biodiversity, and ecosystem functions and services. In the Caribbean, Sicydiine gobies are represented by a single genus, Sicydium, but species-level Sicydium taxonomy and distributions remain unresolved in this region. A previous study posited that four species of Sicydium are presen...

“Sirajo” is a generic term used colloquially to refer to a poorly studied group of fascinating amphidromous fishes ranging throughout the Caribbean. Adults, especially when in spawning condition, exhibit strikingly brilliant electric blue-green coloration. In some areas of the Caribbean, especially Puerto Rico (a Commonwealth of the US), the larval...

Worldwide, streams and rivers are facing a suite of pressures that alter water quality and degrade physical habitat, both of which can lead to changes in the composition and richness of fish populations. These potential changes are of particular importance in the Southeast USA, home to one of the richest stream fish assemblages in North America. Us...

North Carolina's river drainages continue to lose their faunal distinctiveness as nonnative fish species establish themselves and expand their distributions, resulting in biotic homogenization. One such example is the Pee Dee drainage on the Atlantic Slope. It is the most speciose drainage in North Carolina, inhabited by 113 species of which 34 are...

On a local scale, the biota of the Plummers Island, Maryland, vicinity is among the most intensively studied in the world. The fishes occurring in Potomac River and its tributaries in the vicinity of that island have been subjected to periodic scrutiny since the early 1900s, with the latest thorough analysis published in 2002. Herein, we present an...

New geographic distribution records are documented for 17 taxa of Arkansas fishes within seven families (Atherinopsidae, Catostomidae, Cyprinidae, Fundulidae, Lepisosteidae, Percidae, Petromyzontidae) from 15 counties of the central and northern portions of the state. Several species are reported from the Eleven Point (Notropis sabinae, Percina evi...

El pez chupón blanco, Moxostoma anisurum, está listado como amenazado y considerado como en peligro crítico (S1) en Arkansas por The Nature Conservancy. Sólo 12 registros entre 23 especímenes de esta especie provenientes de cinco ríos son conocidos en el estado. Un registro reciente es del río Strawberry en el condado de Lawrence del año 2007; éste...

A poorly known acropomatid, Verilus sordidus Poey 1860, is redescribed based on six specimens from the western central Atlantic. We present diagnostic characters to differentiate this species from Neoscombrops atlanticus Mochizuki and Sano 1984, which has been confused with this species, and designate a neotype of V. sordidus. This species is disti...

Stenolicmus sarmientoi is described as a new genus and species of the trichomycterid subfamily Sarcoglanidinae, from the RíAo Mamoré Basin, Bolivia. It can be distinguished from all other sarcoglanidines by: five-rayed pectoral fin; elongate body shape (HL about 15% of SL); absence of fontanelles on cranial roof; well-developed patches of opercular...

The “Carolina” Redhorse is a rare, undescribed member of genus Moxostoma (Catostomidae) restricted to the Pee Dee and Cape Fear drainages in North and South Carolina. R. E. Jenkins recognized the species in 1995 and proposed it as sister to the Golden Redhorse, M. erythrurum, a widely distributed species occurring in the Mobile, Mississippi, Great...

The Southeastern Fishes Council Technical Advisory Committee reviewed the diversity, distribution, and status of all native freshwater and diadromous fishes across 51 major drainage units of the southern United States. The southern United States supports more native fishes than any area of comparable size on the North American continent north of Me...

Histological examination and biochemical assays of fish tissues are used for disease detection, genetic characterizations, contaminant analyses, and the detection of stable isotopes. However, tissue sampling usually requires invasive sampling procedures that may harm or kill an organism under investigation. For this reason, invasive procedures are...

The circumtropically distributed marine percoid family Priacanthidae, the bigeyes, is a relatively small (18 species in four genera) group of epibenthic predatory fishes occurring primarily in rocky or coral habitats at depths from 5 to 400 m or more. Two species are circumtropical in distribution, 13 occur in portions of the Indo-Pacific, one is c...

Partially funded by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1977. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-135).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Tennessee.