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CAS-ICH 22855 Etheostoma tuscumbia   [Catalog of Fishes] PARALECTOTYPE ID by/date  GILBERT & SWAIN / 1887 Percidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 4/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number IU 04768 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 Bohlke 1952, gives collectors as Gilbert & Swain 1884, but see Gilbert 1891, Bull. USFC 10:143-59.
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