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 Notropis coccogenis (Cope)

 Warpaint Shiner, figures 2, 14D, map 1.










Figure 2. Adult male Notropis coccogenus, UMMZ 131488, 113 mm SL, from
Cosby Creek, Cocke County, Tennessee.

Hypsilepis coccogenis Cope, 1867: 160 (original description; type locality Holston
 River, Virginia).
 Leuciscus coccogenis, Giinther, 1868: 253 (description; specimens from Vir-
 ginia in British Museum).
 Luxilus coccogenis, Jordan and Copeland, 1876: 153 (upper Tennessee
 River).
 Minnilus coccogenis, Jordan and Gilbert, 1883: 188 (description; range).
 Notropis coccogenis, Jordan, 1885b: 814 (range).
 Hydrophlox coccogenis, Jordan, 1929: 83 (description; range).
 Coccotis coccogenis, Jordan, Evermann and Clark, 1930: 127 (reference to
 original description; range).
Notropis brimleyi Bean, 1903: 913-914 (original description; Cane River, North
 Carolina; based on atypical specimen of N. coccogenis).
 Hydrophlox brimleyi, Jordan, 1929: 83-84 (description; range).
 Coccotis brimleyi, Jordan, Evermann and Clark, 1930: 127 (reference to orig-
 inal description).

 TYPE. A series of 100 specimens (ANSP 3561-3660) bearing the
data "Holston River, Virginia, collected by E. D. Cope," have been
assumed to represent the syntypes of Hypsilepis coccogenis Cope
(Fowler, 1910: 285). Jordan and Evermann (1896b: 285) listed as the
type a specimen (USNM 36849), also collected by Cope, from the
"Holston River, North Carolina." As the Holston River closely ap-
proaches but does not enter North Carolina, the label on the latter
specimen is assumed to be partly in error and should probably read
Virginia. Neither the U. S. National Museum nor Academy of Nat-
ural Sciences of Philadelphia has any record showing how or when
this specimen was transferred, although judging from the entry in the
National Museum catalogue Cope himself probably sent it late in
1884. The readily explained difference in locality data, the fact that
Jordan and Evermann presumably had a valid reason for labeling the


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