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Assessment Of Rarity Of The Blackmouth Shiner Notropis Melanostomus (Cyprinidae) Based On Museum And Recent Survey Data, Martin O'Connell
Assessment Of Rarity Of The Blackmouth Shiner Notropis Melanostomus (Cyprinidae) Based On Museum And Recent Survey Data, Martin O'Connell
Martin T O'Connell
Accurate knowledge of an organism's distribution is necessary for conserving species with small or isolated populations. A perceived rarity may only reflect inadequate sampling effort and suggest the need for more research. We used a recently developed method to evaluate the distribution of a rare fish species, the blackmouth shiner Notropis melanostomus Bortone 1989 (Cyprinidae), which occurs in disjunct populations in Mississippi and Florida. Until 1995, N. melanostomus had been collected from only three localities in Mississippi, but in 1995, eight new localities were discovered. We analyzed museum records of fish collections from Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama to compare sampling …