Annotated List of the Fishes of Illinois

Abstract

SINCE 1876, specimens and data regarding the appearance and distribution of fishes in this state have been collected by zoologists of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and the organizations which were its predecessors. In 1909 Stephen Alfred Forbes and Robert Earl Richardson published a report entitled "The Fishes of Illinois," which was partly revised for a second edition printed in 1920. Many scientific names of Illinois fishes have been changed in the twenty-six years that have passed since the original report was issued, so that today there is need for a list which will place the state fauna in accord with present general classifications.