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CAS-SU(ICH) 1003 Etheostoma tuscumbia   [Catalog of Fishes] PARALECTOTYPE ID by/date  GILBERT & SWAIN / 1887 Percidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 30/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number Size      
Collector; Vessel Kirsch, P. H.; Andrews, W. M.; Jones, E. O.  Field Number PHK 6-VI-89 Date Collected 6 Jun 1889 
Continent/Ocean North America Country United States State Alabama County Colbert County
Water Body Spring Branch Drainage Mississippi R. System Island Group Island
Depth Width Salinity Gear
Locality A spring-fed tributary of Spring Creek at Tuscumbia; cold, clear & swift; Tennessee River Basin.
Latitude-Longitude 34.729176°, -87.705144°; uncertainty: 1239 m (Source: FishNet Collaborative Georeferencing Project) Bottom Type strewn with rocks; overgrown with weeds in places
Georef. RemarksUnclear which creek is referenced but locality placed at Big Spring and uncertainty includes streams in the vicinity.
Acc. Number Specimen Remarks IN: Gilbert 1887, Proc. USNM 10(607):63; Bohlke 1952, gives collectors as Gilbert & Swain 1884, but see Gilbert 1891, Bull. USFC 10:143-59; redet. as Psychromaster tuscumbiae.
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