B.W. Evermann’s scientific contributions

... If the biologists were collecting fishes from an unexplored area, they often described 'dace' they encountered as new species although usually not as a Rhinichthys species (e.g., Girard 1856, 1858, Cope 1872, Cope and Yarrow 1875, Evermann and Meek 1898. Jordan and Evermann (1896) list 10 species of Speckled Dace-like fish, all placed in the genus Agosia. The species were recognized despite having overlapping morphometric and meristic characteristics. ...

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Taxonomy of the Speckled Dace Species Complex (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae, Rhinichthys) in California, USA

... The new species Priolepis formosa belong to Group III of Priolepis that shares similar characteristic by having reduced transverse papillae and has predorsal scales reviewed by Winterbottom & Burridge (1989, 1992, 1993a. This group including Indo-Pacific Ocean species, namely P. agrena Winterbottom & Burridge 1993b, P. aureoviridis (Gosline, 1959), P. cinctus (Regan, 1908), P. eugenius (Jordan & Evermann, 1903), P. inhaca (Smith, 1949), P. limbatosquamis (Gosline, 1959), P. pallidicincta Winterbottom & Burridge 1993b, Priolepis psygmophilia Winterbottom & Burridge 1993c, P. squamogena Winterbottom & Burridge, 1989, P. triops Winterbottom & Burridge 1993b and Caribean and Antlantic species, namely P. ascensionis (Dawson & Edwards, 1987), P. dawsoni Greenfield, 1989, P. hipolitii Metzelaar, 1922and P. robinsi Garzón-Ferreira & Acero, 1991. The new species P. formosa is characterized by strong outlined of scale pockets with brown melanophores, a distinctive feature that distinguishes it from P. ascensionis, P. aureoviridis, P. cinctus, P. dawsoni, P. eugenius, P. hipoliti, P. pallidicincta, P. robinsi, P. triops, and P. squamogena. ...

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A new species of the gobiid genus Priolepis (Teleostei:Gobiidae) from Taiwan

... The species was discovered for the first time at the end of the XIX century thanks to the capture of two specimens, one off Madagascar (Indian Ocean) and the other in the North Atlantic, between Iceland and Greenland [2]. When the species was first described, it was placed under the genus Maurolicus [1], but later Jordan and Evermann [3] established the genus Valenciennellus, characterized by the particular arrangement of the photophore ventral series from anal fin origin to caudal fin base (AC), grouped in clusters of no more than four and spaced apart. A full description of the anatomical features of this species was given by Weitzman [4]. ...

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New Documented Records of the Mesopelagic Fish Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Sternoptychidae) in the Strait of Messina and a Review of Its Mediterranean Occurrences

... The range of depth from the literature is between 25 and 550 m (Cervigón et al., 1993). Diagnostic characters: Based on the examined specimens and literature data (Poey, 1883 -as S. intermedius; Jordan & Evermann, 1896; Anderson et al. 1966; Walls, 1975; Uyeno & Aizawa, 1983; Cervigón, 1991; McEachran & Fechhelm, 1998; Carvalho-Filho, 1999; Russell, 2002; Ditty et al., 2006). (Table 3.A–B). ...

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Article First report of Aulopus (Teleostei: Aulopidae) from Southwestern Atlantic, with a review of records and a key to Western Atlantic Aulopoidei species

... More specifically, both C. zadockii and L. platostomus share the condition of have pelvic fins positioned slightly closer to the pectoral fins. National d'Histoire Naturelle appears never to have updated the labels for these specimens to show the recommended synonymy of Wiley (1976) and therefore currently shows our recommendation (and that of Jordan et al. 1930) to consider these syntypes as members of Lepisosteus platostomus. These antique tags are an example of how the slow progress of updating museum tags can sometimes work to the advantage of taxonomists. ...

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Reassignment of a junior synonym of Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell 1864 to L. platostomus Rafinesque 1820