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Cretaceous Dinosaurs of North Carolina

Donald Baird and John R. Horner

Museum of Natural History, Princeton University,

Princeton, New Jersey 08544

ABSTRACT. — Isolated bones of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the

Black Creek Formation (Campanian) of Sampson and Bladen counties,

accumulated over the last eleven decades, are described and interpreted

in the light of more nearly complete material known from elsewhere. A

medium-sized carnivorous dinosaur is comparable to the tyrannosaurids

Dryptosaurus and Albertosaurus. One toe bone represents the ostrich-mimic

Ormthomimus. The enigmatic Hypsibema crassicauda , originally based on a

mixture of three suborders, is restricted to tail vertebrae and syn-

onymized with Parrosaurus; it is probably a sauropod of huge size but un-

certain family. Duckbill dinosaur bones are generically indeterminate

but evidently belong to the Hadrosaurinae. “Hadrosaurus tripos ” is not a

Cretaceous dinosaur but a Pliocene whale. Also misidentified as

dinosaurian are remains of the gigantic crocodile Deinosuchus

[Phobosuchus] rugosus, which probably preyed on the amphibious hadro-

saurs.

A revised list of the Phoebus Landing local fauna includes the

sharklike fishes Aster ac anthus , Scapanorhynchus , Squalicorax, Ischyrhiza , and

Brachyrhizodus; the bony fishes Paralbula and Pycnodus; the turtles Triohyx

and Taphrosphys ; the mosasaurid sea-lizards Tylosaurus and Platecarpus;

the crocodiles Deinosuchus and Leidyosuchus; and four dinosaurian genera.

Homonymy of Coelosaurus Leidy, 1865, with Coelosaurus [Owen] 1854

necessitates the transfer of C. antiquus Leidy to Ormthomimus .

INTRODUCTION

Our knowledge of the Cretaceous dinosaurs of North Carolina is, un-

fortunately, derived entirely from isolated and often fragmentary bones

that were brought to light during extremely sporadic episodes of

collecting activity. In the antebellum period an impressive amount of

pioneering work was done by Ebenezer Emmons, state geologist from

1851 to 1863. Although Cretaceous reptile bones (mosasaur, crocodile

and turtle) are illustrated in Emmons (1858), he seems not to have dis-

covered any dinosaur material — or if he did, it was lost to science with

the wartime destruction of the Survey collections (Stuckey 1965).

Thus the first discovery of dinosaurs within the state must be credited

to the versatile and energetic Washington Caruthers Kerr, an alumnus of

Chapel Hill who had done postgraduate work under Agassiz and others

at Harvard. Beginning his service as state geologist in 1864, in the final

desperate months of the war, and persevering through the troubled and

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impoverished era of reconstruction, Kerr re-established the Survey and

directed its activities until his death in 1885. The fossil vertebrates col-

lected by Kerr and his assistants were sent to Philadelphia for description

by the leading vertebrate paleontologist of the day, Edward Drinker

Cope, and were deposited for permanent safekeeping in the United States

National Museum. Cope published the Survey’s discoveries as they came

to hand, and subsequently (1875) compiled a synopsis of all the fossil ver-

tebrates that had been found in the state.

A hiatus in paleontological work then intervened, ending only in 1905

when a survey of the coastal plain deposits was undertaken as a

cooperative project of the United States Geological Survey and the North

Carolina Geological and Economic Survey. In the course of this work a

number of Cretaceous reptile bones were recovered at Phoebus Landing

on the Cape Fear River by Lloyd W. Stephenson and his associate,

Edward W. Berry (the elder). This material was to have been described

in Part II of the State Survey’s Report (Volume V), '‘The Cretaceous For-

mations of North Carolina,” but unfortunately the series was discon-

tinued after publication of Part I (Stephenson 1923). Aside from the iden-

tifications by Charles W. Gilmore published in Stephenson’s 1912 report

and the subsequent citation by Lull and Wright (1942) of specimens

believed to be hadrosaurian, Stephenson’s material remained un-

described in the National Museum.

After another lengthy hiatus, in the 1950s geologists from the Univer-

sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undertook systematic survey work

along the Cape Fear River. Their published reports (e.g. Brett and

Wheeler 1961; Heron and Wheeler 1964) added greatly to our un-

derstanding of Cretaceous sedimentology and stratigraphy. One

dinosaurian byproduct of this research was the hadrosaur humerus

(described below) recovered by Everett Brett and Walter H. Wheeler at

Milepost 49. Wheeler (1966) reported on a mandible of the mosasaurid

lizard Tylosaurus that he collected at Phoebus Landing in 1964.

A specific search for vertebrate fossils was begun in 1963 by Halsey W.

Miller, Jr., then on the faculty of High Point College. Through his ex-

cavations of 1964-1965 at Phoebus Landing the number of known

specimens was greatly increased, making it possible to prepare a

preliminary faunal list (Miller 1967, 1968). All specimens recovered were

presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the

Sternberg Museum of Fort Hays Kansas State College.

The purpose of this paper is to gather together the piecemeal finds of

dinosaur bones from North Carolina and interpret them in the light of

more nearly complete material from elsewhere. As the foregoing historical

summary implies, the Tarheel state has Cretaceous vertebrates in store

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for those who seek them, although hitherto the seekers have been few and

long between. We hope our contribution will stimulate further delving

into this fallow field.

ABBREVIATIONS

AMNH, American Museum of Natural History.

ANSP, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

PU, Princeton University Museum of Natural History.

SM, Sternberg Museum, Fort Hays Kansas State College.

UNC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

USNM, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

LOCALITIES

Figure 1 shows the sites from which dinosaurian (or supposedly

dinosaurian) bones have been recovered.

(1) Marl pits of James King, Sampson County. According to Kerr

(1875: 198-199) King’s farm lay “some 10 miles from the depot [Faison’s

Depot], southwest .... This locality is on the waters of Six Runs Creek.”

The heterogeneous collection of bones upon which Cope based Hypsibema

crassicauda was found in the “blue marl,” now the Black Creek Formation.

(2) ,Marl pit of W. J. Thompson, Sampson County, “about ten miles

distant from the marl pit in which the Hypsibema was found” (Cope

1875: 40). This appears to be the locality mentioned in passing by Kerr

(1875: 198) : “ [Blue marl sample] No. 35 is from the farm of J. C. Pass, a

mile and a half west of Faison’s Depot .... Another well known outcrop

in the same neighborhood is at Dr. Thompson’s. ...”

Stephenson’s (1923) map shows an extensive area of Duplin Marl

(Miocene or Pliocene) extending southward from Faison. In the same

region Stuckey’s (1958) map indicates only an insignificant, mile-wide

patch of Duplin (Yorktown) lying west of Six Runs Creek. The dis-

crepancy between these maps is probably less a matter of fact than of

emphasis, the later cartographer choosing to ignore the patchy, surficial

remnants of a once-extensive Cenozoic cover. Under the circumstances it

is easy to see why Cope assumed the type specimen of Hadrosaurus tripos to

be a dinosaur vertebra from the Cretaceous “blue marl,” overlooking the

possibility (now confirmed) that it is a whale vertebra derived from the

Duplin Marl.

(3) Milepost (or Mile Board) 49 near Donahue Landing, south bank of

the Cape Fear River about 15 air miles (24 km) southeast of

Elizabethtown, Bladen County. A hadrosaurine humerus encrusted with

bryozoa and Exogyra spat was found at the base of the Peedee Formation,

evidently reworked from the underlying Black Creek Formation. Detailed

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Fig. 1. Index map of Cretaceous dinosaur localities in North Carolina (for

descriptions see text). Formation boundaries are dotted. Formations in

descending order: Td, Duplin (Yorktown); Tch, Castle Hayne; Kpd, Peedee;

Kbc, Black Creek; Kt, Tuscaloosa. Latitude 35° North passes through Clinton.

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analyses of this locality were provided by Brett and Wheeler (1961 : 67-69,

“Station 2”) and Heron and Wheeler (1964: 46, “Locality 12”).

(4) Phoebus Landing, south bank of the Cape Fear River below

Milepost 68, about 5 air miles (8 km) east-southeast of Elizabethtown,

Bladen County. The source of most of the dinosaur bones described in

this paper, Phoebus Landing was discussed by Stephenson (1912: 120;

1923: 10), Miller (1967), and Heron and Wheeler (1964: 42, “Locality

8”).

THE BLACK CREEK FORMATION

A succinct analysis of this formation was provided by Heron and

Wheeler (1964) in their guide to the Cretaceous strata along the Cape

Fear River. For the convenience of readers who lack ready access to the

guidebook we abstract pertinent passages here.

“The Black Creek Formation consists of poorly indurated, laminated

or thin-bedded clayey silts and silty clays, dark clays, and loose, coarse

light gray, well sorted sand, as well as thick lenses of this sand. These

sands, silts and clays contain substantial quantities of glauconite, lignite,

shell material, iron sulphide, and some amounts of phosphate, amber,

and marine microfossils. . . . Lignitized wood . . . occurs as logs and large

branches which may be partly silicified, or as mats of twigs and other

vegetable matter, as scattered fragments, and, rarely, as very thin layers

in some sands. Many sands are locally cemented and stained by ferric

iron.

“[Donald J. P.] Swift [unpubl. dissert., 1964] has distinguished four

types of stratification in the Black Creek: a fluvial stratification recognized

by nearly perfect separation of sediment into sand and clay, grouping of

strata into strata sets, sand beds with imperfectly developed third order

stratification of thin beds and laminae of sand separated by very thin

laminae of finer sand, and sands with an impoverished transition zone

suite of accessory minerals (glauconite and Foraminifera sparse or lack-

ing)-

“In fluviomarine bedding the sands are finer-grained, darker and more

clayey, the grouping of strata into strata sets is not as pronounced, and

strata sets are relatively continuous whereas the individual strata tend to

lens and bifurcate. The sediments carry a transition zone suite of ac-

cessory minerals, including Foraminifera, Ostrea fragments and up to 15%

of glauconite. Though marine, their stratification is controlled by river

flooding.

“A lagoonal stratification ranges from a lenticular thinly bedded type to

varieties where bedding is obscured by mottling produced by burrowing

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“Finally a littoral stratification is found only immediately beneath the

Peedee Formation. Strata are of pale sand with a median thickness of 2.5

feet, varying from 1 to 22 feet. . . . These beds are actually lenses when

seen in large enough outcrops.”

Given such varied circumstances of deposition, the ecologically heter-

ogeneous nature of the Black Creek vertebrate fauna is understandable.

Thus the thanatocoenosis at Phoebus Landing combines the remains of

fully terrestrial dinosaurs (carnosaurs and ornithomimids) with those of

amphibious, presumably paludal and lagoonal forms (hadrosaurs,

sauropods and giant crocodiles) and these in turn with remains of marine

mosasaurs and sharks.

Time relationships of the Black Creek Formation were interpreted by

Brett and Wheeler (1961: 102) as follows. “The stratigraphic situation

along the Cape Fear River indicates an onlap condition during Upper

Cretaceous time with an encroachment of the ocean onto a gently sloping

coastal plain. . . . Upstream and updip from Elizabethtown the Black

Creek Formation was, without doubt, deposited during Taylor time

represented by the Exogyra ponderosa zone (or older near the base);

downstream and downdip from Milepost 60 to at least Milepost 49, both

the Black Creek and Peedee Formations were also deposited during

Taylor time.” Thus the dinosaurs discussed in this report are Tayloran,

i.e. Campanian, late Cretaceous, in age.

SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTIONS

Order SAURISCHIA

Suborder THEROPODA

Infraorder CARNOSAURIA

Family TYRANNOSAURIDAE

cf. Dryptosaurus Marsh, 1877, or Albertosaurus Osborn, 1905

Figs. 2A, 3A, 4B-B1

Two teeth from Phoebus Landing were assigned the tentative iden-

tification of Gorgosaurus ? by Miller (1967: 233): USNM 7199 (previously

cited as £ atomis ? [sic] by Stephenson 1912: 120) and the fragmentary

ANSP “15331” (actually 15332, two teeth, Fig. 2A). Aside from being

carnosaurian these teeth show no characteristics that would permit

generic identification. They are as similar to Dryptosaurus aquilunguis

(Cope) as to Gorgosaurus (i.e. Albertosaurus) ; and indeed, Stephenson’s in-

vocation of the Triassic tooth-genus gjatomus is not so far-fetched as it

sounds, for all carnosaurian cheek teeth are essentially alike.

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A maxilla tentatively attributed to Gorgosaurus by Miller (1967) is here

reassigned to the crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and is discussed below in

the section on non-dinosaurian remains.

Three fragmentary femora are demonstrably carnosaurian. Two of

these, from the marl pits of James King in Sampson County, formed part

of the mixed lot of bones upon which Cope established Hypsibema

crassicauda (USNM 7189). The now-missing “left tibia'’ shaft section

(Cope 1875, PI. 6, Figs. 2-2a) appears instead to be part of a carnosaurian

left femur. In morphology it corresponds closely to the left femur of

Dryptosaurus aquilunguis but is slightly larger, about 10 cm rather than 9 cm

in maximum diameter. The badly-eroded fragment that Cope (1875, PI.

6, Figs. 1-la; our Figs. 4B-B1) interpreted as the distal extremity of a right

humerus proves on comparison to be a left femur. A more informative

specimen is ANSP 15330 (Fig. 3A), the distal one-third of a right femur

which Miller collected at Phoebus Landing but omitted from his papers.

Its distal condyles are much abraded and the anteromedial ridge that

bounds the origin of the femorotibialis muscle is broken away. So far as

the damaged state of the specimens permits comparison, ANSP 15330

and Cope’s “right humerus” are so nearly identical in size and

morphological detail that they might have come from the same individual

— although of course they were found many miles apart.

These femora are closely comparable to that of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis ,

the type specimen of which (ANSP 9995, Fig. 3B) came from the

“chocolate greensand bed” or New Egypt Formation of late Maestrich-

tian age near Barnsboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey. As the

photographs show, on the dorsal (anterior) surface the rugose area of

origin of the femorotibialis muscle is bounded proximally by a prominent

low welt that arcs across the face of the shaft and continues down its an-

teromedial edge as a crest to buttress the internal condyle. The break in

slope between shaft surface and muscle insertion is conspicuous in lateral

Fig. 2. Dinosaur teeth from Phoebus Landing, Bladen County. A, tyran-

nosaurid carnosaurian cf. Dryptosaurus or Albertosaurus , ANSP 15332. B,

hadrosaurine maxillary tooth in occlusal view; C, hadrosaurine dentary tooth in

lingual and profile views, ANSP 15333. Scale in mm.

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view. The external condyle is prolonged proximally into a hemi-conical

swelling that plunges into the muscle scar.

On the ventral (posterior) surface the intercondylar fossa is relatively

broad and nearly flat-bottomed; on its inner side it extends proximally to

end in a popliteal pit (which is more prominently marked in the Phoebus

Landing femur than in USNM 7189 and the type of Dryptosaurus). Above

this pit the buttressing ridge from the inner condyle swings diagonally

across the shaft to merge with the more prominent ridge from the outer

condyle. The condyles themselves are too badly eroded to be informative.

cm.

Fig. 3. Tyrannosaurid femora (distal ends) in dorsal, medial, ventral and

lateral views. A, right femur from Phoebus Landing, ANSP 15330. B, left femur of

Dryptosaurus aquilunguis, ANSP 9995 (type), from Barnsboro, New Jersey. Scale in

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Available femora of Albertosaurus libratus (Lambe) from the Oldman

Formation (AMNH 5458 and 5664) are either too crushed or too inac-

cessible (being embedded in panel-mounted skeletons) to be useful for

comparison. A right femur of Albertosaurus sarcophagus Osborn from the

lower Edmonton Formation (AMNH 5218) is closely comparable in both

proportions and morphological detail to -the Phoebus Landing femur and

that of Dryptosaurus. The right femur of Daspletosaurus torosus Russell

(AMNH 5438, paratype) from the Oldman Formation is essentially

similar to all the foregoing, differing mainly in that, on the ventral sur-

face, the ridge that runs proximally from the inner condyle crosses the

shaft at an angle of 32° to the femoral axis, as compared to 20° in the

Phoebus Landing femur and 23° in Dryptosaurus and Albertosaurus (angles

approximate). The lower shaft of the Daspletosaurus femur also appears

broader in proportion to its depth, although crushing makes this factor

uncertain.

The right femur of Alectrosaurus olsem Gilmore (AMNH 6554, syntype)

from the Iren Dabasu Formation of Mongolia differs conspicuously from

all the foregoing in morphology as well as in its slenderer proportions. On

the ventral surface it lacks strong ridges extending anteriorly from the

condyles, while on the dorsal surface the scar for the origin of the

femorotibialis muscle is much less sharply demarcated both proximally

and distally, with the result that no pronounced break in slope is evident

in lateral view.

In conclusion, so far as its preservation permits comparison

Dryptosaurus is not distinguishable from Albertosaurus on the basis of the

distal end of the femur. The femur from Phoebus Landing is extremely

similar to both, differing in that its diaphysis is slightly deeper relative to

width, so that the lumen is circular rather than oblate in section. It is less

similar to Daspletosaurus and quite different from Alectrosaurus. Having

made these comparisons, we do not feel that the material available per-

mits a generic identification for the North Carolina tyrannosaurid.

Infraorder COELUROSAURIA

Family ORNITHOMIMIDAE

cf. Ormthomimus Marsh, 1890

A single toe bone of an ostrich-mimic dinosaur from Phoebus Landing

(ANSP 15319) was described by Miller (1967: 232, PI. 3, Fig. 7) who

compared it to the first phalanx of the third digit of Ormthomimus altus

Lambe. This specimen is water-worn, with abraded proximal and distal

ends. The bone is symmetrical when viewed from either end. At its prox-

imal end the ventral surface is smooth and flat while the upper profile

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forms a symmetrical arch. The proximal end bears a pair of shallow con-

cavities for the reception of the distal condyles of a preceding phalanx,

whereas if this were the first phalanx it would be singly concave to receive

the single condyle of the metatarsal. Thus the Phoebus Landing specimen

probably represents the second phalanx of the third digit. It closely

resembles phalanx III-2 of all the ornithomimids, including AMNH 2551

from Monmouth County, New Jersey.

The earliest name for an ornithomimid from the Atlantic coastal

deposits is Coelosaurus antiquus Leidy, 1865, based on a well-preserved tibia

(ANSP 9222) from the greensand of Burlington County, New Jersey.

However, Leidy ’s generic name proves to be a junior homonym of

Coelosaurus [Owen] 1854 (see Appendix). We accordingly transfer the

species antiquus to the oldest junior subjective synonym of Coelosaurus

Leidy, which is Marsh’s genus Ormthomimus. Fragmentary remains in-

distinguishable from Ormthomimus are found from the late Santonian or

early Campanian through the late Maestrichtian of New Jersey and

Delaware (Baird and Horner 1977). As the Phoebus Landing assemblage

is Campanian in age and belongs to the same faunal province as those of

New Jersey and Delaware, we concur with Miller’s provisional assign-

ment of the North Carolina specimen to Ormthomimus .

Suborder SAUROPODOMORPHA

Infraorder SAUROPODA

Family incerta

Hypsibema Cope, 1869

Neosaurus Gilmore in Gilmore and Stewart, 1945; non Nopcsa, 1923.

Parrosaurus Gilmore, 1945 (replacement name).

Hypsibema eras sic auda Cope

Hypsibema crassicauda Cope, 1869: 192; 1870: 122-G — 122-1 ( partim ), PI.

1, Figs. 15-1 5 A- 1 5 B ; 1871: 211-214 ( partim ); 1875: 36-40 {partim ), PI.

5, Figs. 2-2a-2b, PI. 6, Fig. 3 (only). Type species by monotypy.

Figs. 4A-A1, 5, 6

Type. — USNM 7189, a syntypic suite of mixed generic origin. We

designate as lectotype the caudal vertebra illustrated by Cope (our Figs.

4A-A1, 5A), collected by W. C. Kerr from James King’s marl pits in

Sampson County.

Hypodigm. — The lectotype and the following caudal vertebrae from

Phoebus Landing, Bladen County: USNM 6136, Berry and Stephenson

coll., 1907, cited erroneously as cotype by Lull and Wright (1942: 224)

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Fig. 4. Hypsibema crassicauda, syntypes, USNM 7189. A-A^, lectotype caudal

vertebra in left lateral and dorsal views; B-B^, tyrannosaurid left femur (distal

end) in ventral and dorsal views; C-C^, hadrosaurian left tibia fragment; D-D^,

hadrosaurian right metatarsal II in anterior and posterior views. Scale in cm.

but see Miller (1967: 234); Fig. 5B. USNM 7093, 7094, Berry and

Stephenson coll., 1907. ANSP 15307A-C, three vertebrae, Miller coll.

(15307B figured by Miller 1967, PI. 4, Figs. 7-8 as Hadrosaurus ?); Figs. 6A-

A\ B-B1, C. ANSP 15338, Miller coll.; Figs. 6D-D1. USNM 10312, a

caudal neural spine, may pertain.

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Discussion. — This taxon was born in confusion and has persisted in the

same state for more than a century. The bones from James King’s marl

pits (note the plural) that Kerr submitted to Cope were so obviously

water-tumbled and abraded that, even if they had been found in close

proximity, their organic association should have been considered un-

likely. Whether or not they were found together, the five bones that con-

stituted the original syntypic series can now be shown to represent three

suborders of dinosaurs. Cope, unfortunately, took their association for

granted. In deducing a single species from these disparate elements he in-

evitably created a monster incertae sedis for the confusion of subsequent

students.

Of the surviving syntypes illustrated in Fig. 4, A-A1 is the caudal ver-

tebra which inspired Cope’s specific name crassicauda (“thick-tailed”) and

which we designate as lectotype; the other bones are removed from

Hypsibema and described elsewhere in this paper. The fifth bone (now

Fig. 5. Hypsibema crassicauda , caudal vertebrae in posterior and ventral views. A,

USNM 7189, lectotype from James King’s marl pits; B, USNM 6136 from

Phoebus Landing. Scale in cm.

Fig. 6. Hypsibema crassicauda, referred caudal vertebrae from Phoebus Landing in

dorsal, lateral and anterior views. A-C, ANSP 15307A-C; D, ANSP 15338. Scale

in cm.

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missing), which Cope took to be the shaft of the left tibia, appears instead

to be part of a carnosaurian left femur.

Material acquired since 1869 adds little to the morphological informa-

tion provided by the lectotype vertebra. The largest and presumably most

anterior vertebra (ANSP 15338) is slightly longer than its centrum height,

and the more posterior vertebrae become increasingly elongate, exactly as

illustrated by Gilmore in the tail of Parrosaurus. The ends of the centra are

hexagonal, wider than their height, and slightly amphicoelous (nearly

amphiplatyan) with chamfered rims. In well-preserved specimens the up-

per third of the end surface is rugose, typically showing a semi-sunburst

pattern that centers on the neural canal. In lateral view the centra are

marked by low, rounded, longitudinal ridges at mid-height; there are no

pleurocoeles. Ventrally the centrum is excavated by a broad, moderately

deep, boat-shaped sulcus which is bounded laterally by rounded ridges

that connect the anterior and posterior facets for the haemal chevrons.

The neural arch is centered at mid-length on the centrum and is com-

pletely co-ossified with it, so that only a difference in the orientation of

surface striae reveals the position of the neurocentral suture. The anterior

zygapophyses are short, terminating well behind the anterior margin of

the centrum; their articulating facets are inclined about 30° from the ver-

tical. The neural spine (only the base of which is preserved) arises from

the posterior half of the arch at a low angle (22° in the type); its base is

broadly ogival in cross-section. An experimental reconstruction in clay

shows us that the spine must have projected at least half a centrum length

behind its vertebra in order to articulate with the zygapophyses of the

next succeeding vertebra. Of course we cannot say whether the spine

maintained its initial angle or whether it became more bladelike distally.

The smallest vertebra is a topotypic specimen, now missing, illustrated

by Cope (1875, PI. 5, Figs. 2-2a-2b) as possibly belonging to a young in-

dividual of Hadrosaurus tripos. (In Cope’s plate, oddly, it is shown with the

lateral and end views upside down and the dorsal view captioned

“below.”) Its centrum height is given as 20.5 lines, i.e. 43.4 mm; height at

end, 38.1 mm; width of end, 45.1 mm; width of waist, 31.8 mm. In

morphology this centrum falls well within the range of variation of the

Hypsibema caudals from Phoebus Landing. Its small size and lack of co-

ossification with the neural arch indicate immaturity. Centrum dimen-

sions of some larger vertebrae are shown in Table 1.

The genus Parrosaurus. — A sequence of 13 caudal centra (USNM 16735)

recovered by well-diggers on the Chronister farm near Glen Allen,

Bollinger County, Missouri, was described by Gilmore as a new genus

and species, Neosaurus (later renamed Parrosaurus) missounensis. The source

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TABLE 1. Hypsibema crassicauda and H. missounense, measurements of centra in

mm (slightly corrected for abrasion). Data on largest vertebra of H. missounense

(USNM 16735) from Gilmore and Stewert (1945).

Maximum length

Maximum width at posterior end

Height at center of posterior end

bed was the McNairy Sand Member of the Ripley Formation, considered

early Maestrichtian in age. In analyzing these vertebrae Gilmore ex-

plicitly noted their similarity to Hypsibema crassicauda ; but accepting

without question the hadrosaurian nature of the latter, he dismissed it

from comparison on the grounds that the vertebrae from Missouri could

not pertain to a member of the Hadrosauridae. Now that Hypsibema has

been freed of hadrosaurian encumbrances its generic identity with

Parrosaurus becomes obvious. Every morphological feature cited for the

Missouri vertebrae can be matched in those from North Carolina. Indeed,

the possibility of specific identity cannot be dismissed: but until better

material is available we prefer to maintain Hypsibema missounense

(Gilmore), n. comb., as a separate species.

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Affinities of Hypsibema. — A genus known only by its tail bones is

necessarily somewhat difficult to characterize and classify. Regrettably,

the meager sampling of dinosaur bones from North Carolina affords no

additional element that can be attributed to Hypsibema crassicauda. Even

more regrettably, no attempt has apparently been made to recover the

rest of the skeleton of H. missounense which (we suspect) lies buried a few

meters underground on the Chronister farm. At present the caudal ver-

tebrae provide the only basis for comparison.

Hypsibema shares with the Hadrosauridae its slightly amphicoelous

caudal centra, the amidships position of its neural arch, and the shortness

of its anterior zygapophyses. Within that family (as John S. McIntosh has

pointed out to us) Hypsibema bears some similarity to a series of

diminutive caudal vertebrae assigned to Orthomerus transylvanicus by

Nopcsa (1928, PL 6, Fig. 4). But otherwise, as Gilmore justly noted in his

analysis of Parrosaurus , the caudals are distinctly un-hadrosaurian. Con-

spicuously lacking, indeed, is the feature that appears to have been a

basic adaptation of the hadrosaurs: a laterally-compressed tail height-

ened by neural and haemal spines to form an effective propulsive organ

for swimming. The Ceratopsia and Ankylosauria are excluded from com-

parison by the relative shortness of their caudal centra, while the other

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varieties of Late Cretaceous ornithischians are all too small for considera-

tion.

As Gilmore concluded, the sauropod dinosaurs are the only group to

which this genus can be plausibly assigned. Judged ex pede Herculem by the

mass of its tail, Hypsibema must have been a dinosaur of brontosaurian

size, one worthy of a generic name meaning “high stride.” However, the

common sauropods of the Cretaceous — the Titanosauridae — are

characterized by procoelous caudal vertebrae with forward-set neural

arches and prezygapophyses that project beyond the end of the centrum:

this condition is exemplified by Alamosaurus from the Lower North Horn

formation (Maestrichtian) of Utah (Gilmore 1946). Hypsibema must

therefore belong to some other family, one in which the middle and

posterior caudals are amphicoelous to amphiplatyan. Gilmore, after

eliminating various possibilities, was unable to place the genus in any

family but concluded that it might be assigned tentatively to the

Camarasauridae on the basis of the “general make up” of the vertebrae.

Neither extensive comparison nor expert advice has enabled us to im-

prove on Gilmore’s treatment of the problem, so we must leave the family

assignment open until more diagnostic material is found.

Order ORNITHISCHIA

Suborder ORNITHOPODA

Family HADROSAURIDAE

Hadrosaurinae indet.

Figs. 2B-C, 4C-D, 7, 8

As might be expected, bones of duckbill dinosaurs form a large percent-

age of the total sample. Two mandibular fragments (ANSP 15306 and

USNM 7096) from Phoebus Landing were described by Miller (1967:

234). The first of these (Fig. 7) is part of a right lower jaw that includes

the basal portion of the coronoid process externally and the posterior end

of the grooved dentary (without teeth) internally. Also described by

Miller (as an extremely large postzygapophysis) is a right coronoid

process (ANSP 15329, Fig. 7) that evidently originated from a jaw com-

parable in size to ANSP 15306. Although the two specimens cannot be fit-

ted together, their identical coloring and size and the fact that they came

from the same locality suggest that they may pertain to the same indi-

vidual.

Two hadrosaurian teeth (ANSP 15333) from Phoebus Landing are

here described for the first time. A shed maxillary tooth (Fig. 2B) is of no

descriptive use below the family level. The dentary tooth (Fig. 2C) is un-

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Fig. 7. Hadrosaurinae indet., unassociated right dentary fragment and coro-

noid process from Phoebus Landing, ANSP 15306 and 15329, in lingual and

labial views. Scale in cm.

worn and has a complete enameled crown and partial root or fang. The

crown is diamond-shaped, 18.0 mm high and 8.7 mm wide, with a labial-

lingual diameter of 6.6 mm measured at the base; its superior borders are

papillated along a slightly raised edge. The median carina is straight and

relatively low and not accompanied by secondary ridges. The angle be-

tween crown and root is nearly 140°, in agreement with the hadrosaurine

condition as described by Sternberg (1936); on the other hand, the ratio

between width of crown and labial-lingual diameter is characteristic of

the lambeosaurines. The same discrepancy was pointed out by Langston

(1960) in his description of the dentary teeth of Lophorothon atopus. Despite

this curious point of similarity, however, we feel that a positive assign-

ment of the North Carolina tooth to Lophorothon would be unwarranted.

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A partial right scapula (ANSP 15322) from Phoebus Landing was

described by Miller (1967 : 233, PI. 4, Fig. 6). The fragment preserved ap-

pears to come from near the middle of the blade, above the acromial

ridge. Its edges are parallel and do not appear to be diverging dorsally.

According to Brett-Surman (1976) non-expanding scapular blades of this

sort are generally attributable to the Hadrosaurinae.

Two hadrosaurian limb bones, a right second metatarsal lacking its

distal end and a fragment of a small left tibia (“fibula” of Cope 1875, PI.

7, Figs. 1-la), are here removed from the syntypic series of Hypsibema

crassicauda (USNM 7189). The tibia fragment (Figs. 4C-C1) consists of a

badly eroded and water worn mid-shaft that is uncharacteristic below the

family level. Reconstructed, this tibia would have been about 600 mm

long, or about two-thirds the length of the tibia in the type skeleton of

Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy (ANSP 10005). The metatarsal (Figs. 4D-D1) is

close in size and morphology to the corresponding element in Hadrosaurus

foulkii. A right third metatarsal (USNM 5963, Fig. 8B) from Phoebus

Landing was listed by Gilmore in Stephenson (1912: 120) as Trachodon

tripos ? (Cope). This bone is 340 mm long and has proportions similar to

those of Kritosaurus. But since generic differences have not been recognized

in the metatarsals of hadrosaurian dinosaurs, no generic identification is

possible at this time.

Fig. 8. Hydrosaurinae indet. A, distal half of right humerus from Milepost 49,

UNC 5735, in anterior and posterior views; B, right metarsal III from Phoebus

Landing, USNM 5963, in anterior and posterior views. Scale in cm.

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Brett and Wheeler (1961 : 69) and Heron and Wheeler (1964: 46) men-

tioned a portion of a dinosaur leg bone collected at Milepost 49 in the

base of the Peedee Formation, having evidently been reworked from the

underlying Black Creek sediments. This bone (UNC 5735, Fig. 8A) is the

distal half of a very large right humerus, measuring fully 415 mm from the

condyles to the base of the deltopectoral ridge. The proportions of the

shaft are similar to those of Hadrosaurus foulkii and Kritosaurus incurvimanus

Parks (1920: 35, Fig. 9). Reconstructed, the humerus would have been

about 830 mm long, exceeded in length only by the lambeosaurine

humerus from Baja California described by Morris (1972). From the

proportions of other lambeosaurines Morris computed that the Mexican

hadrosaur would have been about 16.5 m (54 ft.) long. Although com-

putations of this sort may be possible with lambeosaurines, there is

evidence that such is not the case with hadrosaurines: an undescribed

hadrosaurine (AMNH 5465) from the lower Two Medicine Formation of

Montana has a humerus 765 mm long while its other limb elements are

the same length as those in a skeleton of Kritosaurus notabilis (AMNH

5350) that has a humerus only 490 mm long. Because of this variability in

humerus length within the subfamily Hadrosaurinae, we are not

prepared to estimate the North Carolina dinosaur’s size, beyond saying

that the humerus might have come from an individual exceeding 12 m (40

ft.) in length. The large metatarsal (USNM 5963) described above is

about the same size as that in the type skeleton of Kritosaurus incurvimanus ,

which has a total length of about 8.2 m (27 ft.).

In summary, all the hadrosaur material described above appears to

pertain to the subfamily Hadrosaurinae but none of the bones can be

identified on the generic level.

NON-DINOSAURIAN REMAINS

For the sake of completeness we append here a brief discussion of cer-

tain specimens from North Carolina that have been cited erroneously in

the literature as dinosaurian.

Class MAMMALIA

Order CETACEA

Suborder MYSTICETI

Family BALAENOPTERIDAE

“Hadrosaurus tripos ” Cope, nomen dubium

Hadrosaurus tripos Cope, 1869: 192; 1870: 122-I-J; 1875: 40-41, PI. 5, Figs.

1-la (only).

Material. — Type, USNM 7190, a large caudal vertebra. Cope’s initial

publication cited two caudals from the same locality: one “near the thir-

tieth caudal” with a centrum height of 4.5 in. (USNM 7190) and another,

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“apparently terminal.” Cope’s subsequent and more detailed descrip-

tions ignored the second vertebra but added a third from another locality:

“A second [sic] and much smaller vertebra from the pit that furnished the

remains of Hypsibema crassicauda, belonged to a third individual, and

possibly to this species” (Cope 1870). The “terminal” vertebra is now

missing and the tentatively referred “second” vertebra, also missing, is at-

tributed by us to a juvenile Hypsibema crassicauda. Lull and Wright (1942:

145) cited as cotypes USNM 7190 and 7093, but since the latter specimen

is labeled as having been collected by Berry and Stephenson at Phoebus

Landing in 1907 it cannot be part of the type material; we take it to be a

Fig. 9. Balaenopterid whale, caudal vertebra in lateral, anterior, dorsal and

ventral views; lectotype specimen of “Hadrosaurus tripos, ” USNM 7190. From W.

J. Thompson’s marl pit in Sampson County near Faison, evidently from the

Duplin Marl. Scale in cm.

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badly damaged vertebra of Hypsibema. Two additional caudals from

Phoebus Landing, USNM 7094 and 7095, were assigned to Hadrosaurus

tripos by Lull and Wright; the second is correctly identified (i.e. is ceta-

cean) but USNM 7094 is here transferred to Hypsibema crassicauda. Thus

USNM 7190, the vertebra upon which Cope’s species concept was prin-

cipally based, remains as the lectotype of Hadrosaurus tripos.

Locality and age. — W.J., Thompson’s marl pit in Sampson County, about

10 miles (16 km) from James King’s marl pit; collected by W. C. Kerr.

Cope’s original announcement of fossil reptiles from North Carolina

began with the curious statement that the remains were “of cretaceous

age, which were Intrusive in miocene beds.” As noted above, the actual

stratigraphic relationship is one of residual patches and erosional residue

of Tertiary marls overlying a Cretaceous terrane. Its zoological affinities

indicate that the type specimen of H. tripos (with other misidentified ceta-

cean bones from the “Cretaceous”) must have been derived from the

Duplin Marl. According to the Geological Society of America’s correla-

tion chart (Cooke et al. 1943) the Duplin is a lateral equivalent of the up-

per part of the Yorktown Formation. Its age is there indicated as latest

Miocene, but more recent investigation points to a Pliocene dating (Baum

and Wheeler 1977).

Discussion. — As Cope did, we have compared the type specimen of

Hadrosaurus tripos with the caudal vertebrae of the type species, H. foulku

Leidy\(type, ANSP 10005) — as well as those of numerous other

dinosaurian genera — but we cannot concur with his identification. In its

morphology, and particularly in the presence of zones of coalescence be-

tween the epiphyses and the body of the centrum, the vertebra is clearly

mammalian and evidently cetacean. This reinterpretation was confirmed

independently by Clayton E. Ray and Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. (pers.

comm., 1977), who identified the specimen as a caudal vertebra of a

balaenopterine whale and noted that its size is appropriate to Megaptera

expansa Cope, 1868. The latter species, however, was rejected by Kellogg

(1968: 116-118) on the grounds that Cope’s syntypic series is a mixture of

generically indeterminate vertebrae of two taxa from three localities in

Maryland and Virginia. Surely the nominal species Hadrosaurus tripos has

no greater claim to taxonomic validity than Megaptera expansa ; and while

it must be removed from the genus Hadrosaurus , we feel that there is no

genus of whale to which it can be justifiably transferred. We list it

therefore as “Hadrosaurus tripos ” Cope, nomen dubium.

The large vertebral centrum (SM 13025) from Phoebus Landing ten-

tatively assigned to Protamia by Miller (1968: 470, PI. 1, Figs. 1, 3) was

shown by Boreske (1974: 75, Fig. 26H) to be a cetacean caudal. Like the

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type specimen of “Hadrosaurus tripos” it is evidently an erosional remnant

from the Duplin Marl.

Class REPTILIA

Order CROCODILIA

Suborder EUSUCHIA

Family CROCODYLIDAE

Deinosuchus Holland, 1909

Deinosuchus rugosus (Emmons 1858), n. comb.

The anterior portion of a right maxilla identified as Gorgosaurus ? by

Miller (1967: 232-233, PI. 3, Figs. 8-10; PL 4, Fig. 1; ANSP 15303) is

demonstrably crocodilian on the basis of its circular alveoli with dished

bottoms and the presence of a circular-sectioned, hollow tooth-root in the

most anterior alveolus. Brigaded with it under the same catalog number

are several unassociated and fragmentary bones (right jugal, left angular,

right squamosal?) that appear to represent the same species. The maxilla

is exceptionally deep and its dorsal surface slopes down abruptly to the

anterior sutural surface with which the premaxilla articulated. Huge size,

a deep snout, and a deep dorso-lateral saddle or notch between premax-

illa and maxilla are all characteristic of the crocodilian genus Deinosuchus

Holland, 1909, with which Phobosuchus Nopcsa, 1924, is objectively syn-

onymous (see Colbert and Bird 1954). Reassignment of the maxilla from

Phoebus Landing to Deinosuchus is supported by the evidence of an un-

described partial skeleton from Texas (Wann Langston, Jr., pers. comm.,

1978).

The first evidence of this giant crocodile in North Carolina consisted of

huge teeth found by Emmons (1858: 219-221, Figs. 38-39) in the

“miocene" marl at Elizabethtown, Bladen County. Emmons explicitly

recognized the possibility that his specimens might have been reworked

from older beds, and subsequent finds make it clear that their source

must have been the Cretaceous Black Creek Formation rather than the

Cenozoic marl. He assigned the teeth to Owen’s genus Polyptychodon as a

new species, P. rugosus. Leidy (1865: 17-18, 116; PI. 3, Figs. 22-23)

recognized the Cretaceous age and illustrated (as “undetermined”) two

additional teeth. Cope (1871) transferred Emmons’ species to

Thecachampsa and (1875, PI. 7, Fig. 3) illustrated a characteristic tooth

collected by W. C. Kerr. Hay (1902: 513) reassigned the species as

Crocodylus rugosus (Emmons). Teeth that are virtually indistinguishable

from Emmons' type specimens were collected at Phoebus Landing by

Miller (1967, PI. 2, Figs. 5-6; plus specimens not illustrated, ANSP

15308); and a quantity of undescribed material collected by Stephenson

and Berry is housed in the National Museum of Natural History.

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As the morphology, distribution and taxonomy of Deinosuchus are

currently being studied by Langston, further analysis would be inap-

propriate here. The presence of this gigantic crocodilian in the Black

Creek fauna of North Carolina is significant to the study of dinosaurs in

view of Colbert and Bird’s (1954: 21) cogent suggestion that Deinosuchus

“may very well have hunted and devoured some of the dinosaurs with

which it was contemporaneous.” As Deinosuchus occurs in the hadrosaur-

bearing formations of Wyoming, Montana, Texas, North Carolina,

Delaware and New Jersey (our observation) — and doubtless elsewhere

— we feel justified in proposing that giant crocodiles rather than car-

nosaurian dinosaurs may have been the major predators upon the

amphibious hadrosaurs. In that case the predator/prey ratios computed

by Bakker (1972), who assumed that “tyrannosaurs were the only car-

nivores powerful enough to kill and dismember duck-bills, horned

dinosaurs and ankylosaurs,” may seriously misrepresent the ecological

realities.

Order CHELONIA

Genera indet.

A badly water-worn bone fragment (UNC 3370) from the basal Peedee

Formation at Milepost 49 on the Cape Fear River was illustrated by Brett

and Wheeler (1961, PI. 9, Fig. 5a-b) as a “dinosaur tarsal.” This bone is

the proximal end of the left femur of a large turtle. So far as comparisons

can be made it is similar to, but slightly larger than, the femur of

Taphrosphys sulcatus (Leidy) as illustrated by Gaffney (1975; PU 18707).

On the ventral surface of the inner trochanter it bears a transverse, canoe-

shaped depression lacking in Taphrosphys. A more precise identification of

the turtle represented is beyond our competence. The eroded and ablated

condition of the bone suggests that it has been reworked from the un-

derlying Black Creek Formation.

A small phalangeal bone (ANSP 15327) from Phoebus Landing that

Miller (1967: 232, PI. 3, Figs. 3-4) thought might belong to a small

coelurosaur appears instead to be a proximal pedal phalanx of a turtle,

probably Tnonyx.

THE PHOEBUS LANDING LOCAL FAUNA

Increased knowledge now makes it possible to update the provisional

faunal list prepared by Miller (1967, 1968). The tabulation offered here

should be considered an interim census, subject to emendation as ad-

ditional material is recovered and studied. For identification of fish

remains we are indebted to Gerard R. Case. A checklist of the

dinosaurian specimens is being published elsewhere (Horner 1979).

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Class Chondrichthyes

Asteracanthus sp. [including Edaphodon ? cephalic spine of Miller 1968, PL 1,

Fig. 10] — hybodont shark.

Scapanorhynchus texanus (Roemer) [Carcharias? , Isurus of Miller 1967, PI. 1,

Figs. 1-5] — ghost shark.

Squalicorax pnstodontus (Agassiz) — galeoid shark.

Ischyrhiza mira Leidy [including Hypolophus? rostrum fragments of Miller

1968, PI. 1, Figs. 5-6] — sawfish.

Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis Romer [ Hypolophus ?, Protamia ? of Miller 1968,

PI. 1, Figs. 7-9, 13-14; but see Boreske 1974: 74] — rhinopterid ray.

Class Osteichthyes

Paralbula casei Estes [Egertoma of Miller 1967, PI. 1, Fig. 7] — ladyfish.

Pycnodus phaseolus Hay [ Egertoma ? of Miller 1967, PI. 1, Fig. 8; Gyrodus ?,

Anomoeodus , Bottosaums ? of Miller 1968, PI. 1, Figs, 4, 11-12, 15-16] —

deep-bodied coral-nibbler.

Class Reptilia

Order Chelonia

Trionyx spp. — soft-shelled turtles.

Taphrosphys sp. — side-necked turtle.

Order Squamata, Family Mosasauridae

Tylosaums sp. (Wheeler 1966) — shallow water marine lizard.

Platecarpus sp. — deeper water marine lizard.

Order Crocodilia

Deinosuchus rugosus (Emmons) — giant crocodile.

Leidyosuchus cf. L. formidabilis Erickson — ordinary sized crocodile.

Order Saurischia, Suborder Theropoda

cf. Dryptosaurus or Albertosaums sp. — medium sized carnivorous

dinosaur.

Ornithomimus (?) sp. — ostrich-mimic dinosaur.

Order Saurischia, Suborder Sauropodomorpha

Hypsibema crassicauda Cope — huge herbivorous dinosaur.

Order Ornithischia, Suborder Ornithopoda

Hadrosaurinae indet. — flat-headed duckbill dinosaurs.

FAUNAL AFFINITIES

In his 1967 analysis of the Phoebus Landing assemblage Miller was im-

pressed by its affinity with those of the Belly River Group (i.e. the

Oldman and Judith River Formations) of western Canada and the moun-

tain states. So far as the dinosaurs are concerned, the redeterminations

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presented in this paper do not controvert that view as a generalization;

but we must point out that the material at hand does not permit the iden-

tification of Carolinian with Canadian dinosaurs on the generic level. In-

deed, the closest affinities of the North Carolina dinosaurs appear to lie

elsewhere.

As noted in the preceding pages, the sauropod Hypsibema is in-

distinguishable from Parrosaurus, a genus recorded from beds of early

Maestrichtian age in Missouri. The carnosaur from Phoebus Landing is

as similar to Dryptosaurus from the late Maestrichtian (and earlier) of New

Jersey as it is to Albertosaurus. The single toe bone of an ornithomimid

from North Carolina is comparable to ornithomimid bones from the early

Campanian to late Maestrichtian of New Jersey and Delaware, as well as

to Omithomimus from the Belly River beds. The hadrosaurian dentary

tooth from Phoebus Landing has no close counterpart except in

Lophorothon from the early Campanian of Alabama.

Considering the quality of the evidence available, we suggest that firm

conclusions about the affinities of the Black Creek dinosaur assemblage

are unwarranted at present. Caution seems particularly appropriate in

the light of our observation (Baird and Horner 1977) that the Upper

Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of eastern and western North America have

more in common with each other than had previously been recognized.

And for purposes of biostratigraphic correlation, certainly, the evidence of

the invertebrates must greatly outweigh that of the vertebrates.

APPENDIX

Homonymy of Coelosaurus [Owen] 1854 and Coelosaurus Leidy, 1865

The generic name Coelosaurus first appeared on page 15 of a catalogue of

the fossil reptiles and fishes in the museum of the Royal College of Sur-

geons of England, published in 1854. Although no author’s name appears

on the title page or elsewhere, the catalogue is known to be the work of

Richard Owen and is always cited as “Owen (1854).” It is a work of

original research and not a mere clerical compilation.

In that publication the name Coelosaurus is accompanied by a diagnosis

and etymology and is applied explicitly to a single bone, No. 58 in the

collection. No species name is associated with the generic name. Under

the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1961) we must ac-

cept the generic name Coelosaurus [Owen] 1854 as validly published: it

can be invalidated by neither its author’s anonymity [Art. 9(7), Recom.

51 A] nor its uninominal status [Art. ll(c)(i)]. It is thus a senior

homonym of Coelosaurus Leidy, 1865. As there is no appeal from the Law

of Homonymy, Leidy ’s name must be rejected.

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So far as we can determine the name Coelosaurus [Owen] does not ap-

pear in the literature either before or after the 1854 publication cited. Its

author evidently abandoned it — not surprisingly, as it was based on a

mutilated vertebral centrum of indeterminate age that had been

redeposited in Pleistocene drift — for he made no allusion to it in his sub-

sequent studies on British fossil reptiles. Coelosaurus [Owen] is not listed

in the standard nomenclators of Neave, Sherborn, and Schulze-

Kukenthal, nor in the indexed bibliographies of vertebrate paleontology

compiled by Hay, Camp, and Gregory. We came across it entirely by ac-

cident. As a nomen oblitum it deserves oblivion in taxonomy although it

remains valid for purposes of homonymy.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — For institutional courtesies and the loan of

specimens we are pleasantly indebted to Ms. L. Gay Vostreys of the

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Dr. Eugene S. Gaffney of

the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Walter H. Wheeler of the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr. Nicholas Hotton III

and Mr. Robert W. Purdy of the National Museum of Natural History,

Smithsonian Institution. Advice and criticism have been generously

provided by Messrs. Michael K. Brett-Surman and Gerard R. Case, and

Drs. John E. Cooper, Wann Langston, Jr., John S. McIntosh, Halsey W.

Miller, Jr., Clayton E. Ray, and Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. Our research

was supported by the William Berryman Scott Fund of Princeton

University.

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Accepted 29 May 1979

Revision of Appalachian Trechus

(Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Thomas C. Barr, Jr.

School of Biological Sciences,

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506

ABSTRACT. — Appalachian Trechus are arranged in 2 subgenera, 4

species groups, and 28 species of which 6 species are polytypic. A new

key to species and subspecies includes all 40 taxa in the genus known

from Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina,

Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Thirteen new taxa are

described and illustrated: T. schwarzi scopulosus , new subspecies, North

Carolina; T. schwarzi saludae, new subspecies, North Carolina; T. can-

dy kei pisgahensis, new subspecies, North Carolina; T. haoe, new species,

North Carolina and Tennessee; T. tusquitee, new species, North

Carolina; T. valentinei, new species, North Carolina and Tennessee; T.

stupkai , new species, Tennessee; T. luculentus umcoi , new subspecies,

North Carolina and Tennessee; T. luculentus wayahensis , new subspecies,

North Carolina; T. nantahalae , new species, North Carolina; T. aduncus

toxawayi, new subspecies, North Carolina; T. aduncus coweensis, new sub-

species, North Carolina, and T. aduncus howellae, new subspecies, North

Carolina. New locality records are reported for 8 taxa. Trechus hydropicus

is polytypic, with subspecies T. h. hydropicus (Horn), T. h. beutenmuellen

Jeannel, T. h. avus Barr, and T. h. cams Barr.

INTRODUCTION

Species of Trechus are numerous and locally abundant in the southern

Appalachian mountains (Unaka and Blue Ridge provinces) of western

North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and adjacent portions of Virginia,

Georgia, and South Carolina. One species, T. cumberlandus Barr, occurs in

the Cumberland plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee; T. tennesseensis Barr

exists in caves in the Appalachian valley of east Tennessee, and T.

hydropicus (Horn) ranges northward into easternmost Kentucky, western

Virginia and Maryland, and eastern West Virginia. Five Appalachian

species were recognized by Jeannel (1931) in his revision of North

American Trechini, and previously I described an additional 18 species

from the area (Barr 1962).

Since 1962 many fresh collections have been made. Study of this

material and comparison with my 1960 collections led to the present

paper. Thirteen new taxa are described, bringing the total for the region

to 40 taxa, which include 28 species, of which 6 are interpreted as

polytypic. In contrast, there are only 12 known native species of Trechus in

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all the rest of North America. New distributional records are given for 8

taxa, yet no less than 12 taxa are still known from single collections at

single sites, suggesting that yet further field investigations and revisions

may be necessary before this large and interesting group of small moun-

tain beetles is properly understood from a purely taxonomic point of view.

There seems no special need to divide the Appalachian species of sub-

genus Trechus (males with first two protarsomeres dentate and setose

beneath) into two species groups, and I have lumped my “ carolinae group”

(Barr 1962:73) with the hydropicus group. The great majority of the species

belong to the endemic subgenus Microtrechus Jeannel, distinguished by

having only the first, instead of the first two protarsomeres dentate and

setose beneath in the male. This subgenus occurs in southwestern North

Carolina and adjacent parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Three distinctive species groups recognized by Barr (1962) have been

retained in the present revision, although I have shifted one species (77

verus Barr) from the uncifer group to the nebulosus group. In general, the

species of Trechus reflect the major biogeographic features of carabid dis-

tribution in the southern Appalachians as detailed by Barr (1969). Sub-

genus Trechus has most of its species north of Asheville and north of the

French Broad River valley, while the species of subgenus Microtrechus oc-

cur south of the French Broad, although T. (T.) schwarzi and T. (M.)

vandykei each have subspecies in the Black Mountains and on Pisgah

Ledge, respectively. Various species and subspecies are endemic to most

of the major mountain ranges of the area; lists of endemics by ranges are

presented below, and locations of the ranges are shown in figure 46.

The history of Trechus speciation in the southern Appalachians has

presumably involved vertical expansions and contractions of taxon ranges

in response to the colder, wetter climates of Pleistocene glacial maxima

alternating with warmer, drier regimes of interglacial periods (Barr 1962,

1969). For cold-limited species, suitable microhabitat areas waxed and

waned as did the continental glaciers, with the elevation of the maximum

permissible isotherm rising and falling like the level of the sea, from which

the cool, wet summits of the mountains emerged like islands or

achipelagoes. Because most Trechus species are cold-limited, their specia-

tion patterns are essentially insular, and vicar species and subspecies are

common.

It is thus not surprising that in the southern Appalachians we encoun-

ter arrays of closely similar taxa strung out along the major mountain

chains like beads on a string. For some of the altitudinally limited taxa,

the choice of assignment to the species or subspecies category is arbitrary:

should another glacial maximum ensue, these taxa which are today

allopatric could be brought together again (unlike their trechine cousins

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extrinsically isolated in inescapable cave systems). Applying Emerson’s

(1945) “practical” definition of a species, one could readily consider the

taxa here treated as polytypic 77 schwarzi, T. vandykei, 77 tennesseensis, and

77 aduncus as 11 or so distinct species because they are probably

genetically (extrinsically) isolated from each other at the present time.

However, intergradation between 77 hydropicus avus and 77 h. beutenmuellen

(Barr 1962:73) provides a morphological yardstick against which these

allopatric taxa can be compared. Polytypic 77 luculentus occurs at such low

elevations that existing gaps ought to pose no problems to occasional gene

flow between component subspecies. In most instances I have employed a

conservative treatment; if I have erred on the conservative side, I will at

least have indicated the close relationship of the taxa involved. For exam-

ple, all of the aduncus- group taxa ( = polytypic 77 aduncus in the present

paper) have, in my judgment, been derived from a single ancestral form

which became isolated relatively recently by the gradual restriction of

suitably cool, moist microhabitats to the summits of various mountain

ranges in the Great Balsams, Cowees, and Nantahalas. Perhaps 77

aduncus aduncus and 77 toxawayi may occasionally interbreed at some inter-

mediate geographic point, but 77 howellae and 77 coweensis are probably

absolute genetic isolates at the present time. My views on the probable

degree of isolation at present are indicated in the taxon accounts, so that

the reader may either accept my basically conservative interpretations or

superimpose equivocally feasible, more liberal interpretations of his own.

The addition of several new taxa has necessitated rewriting a key to

species and subspecies of Appalachian Trechus. All known species and

subspecies from the states of Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North

Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia are in-

cluded. The present key makes greater use of external morphology than

my 1962 key, but determinations should always be checked by examina-

tion of an aedeagus where possible (cf. figs. 1-27 in Barr 1962, and figs.

18-43 in the present paper). The range of most species and subspecies is

quite limited, and the precise provenance of a specimen, if known, can be

used to limit still further the species under consideration.

The accounts of taxa other than those newly described take the form

of an annotated checklist; the minimal information given is full tax-

onomic citation and geographic range. Miscellaneous collecting informa-

tion and data on syntopic and sympatric relationships with other species

of the genus have been added when available.

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KEY TO SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN TRECHUS

1. Males with two segments of protarsus enlarged

{Trechus, sensu stricto) 2

Males with only the first protarsal segment enlarged

(subgenus Microtrechus ) 1 2

2(1). Pronotum about 0.7-0. 8 times as long as wide, total length

3. 5-5. 0 mm 6

Pronotum (Fig. 1) very transverse, less than 0.7 times as long as wide;

length 2. 5-3. 5 mm ( hydropicus ) 3

3(2). Elytra with 5 well-developed striae and trace of sixth stria, inner intervals

subconvex; aedeagal apex minutely knobbed (Fig. 18); western Virginia,

Maryland, eastern West Virginia hydropicus hydropicus (Horn)

Elytra with 4 or 5 complete striae, more shallowly impressed 4

4(3). Pronotum with hind angles blunt or sharp, elytra with 4 or 5 striae, at least

inner 3 striae moderately impressed; apex of aedeagus knobbed,

or thickened and inflected (Figs. 19, 21) 5

Pronotum with hind angles sharp, obtuse; elytra! striae very shallow,

inner 3 more pronounced than 4th, at best a trace only of 5th stria

present; apex of aedeagus unmodified (Fig. 20); Roan and Bald

mountains of Tennessee-North Carolina border, southeast to Black

and Great Craggy mountains, North Carolina

hydropicus beutenmuellen Jeannel

5(4). Elytra with 5 striae and trace of 6th (5th and 6th striae may both be very

shallow in westernmost part of range); apical recurrent groove long;

apex of aedeagus (Fig. 21) thickened and inflected; Grayson County,

Virginia, to Harlan County, Kentucky hydropicus canus Barr

Elytra with 4 striae and trace of 5th; apical recurrent groove short to

moderate; aedeagus as in Fig. 19; Blue Ridge in Avery and Ashe coun-

ties, North Carolina hydropicus avus Barr

6(2). Pronotum (Fig. 2) with sides subparallel in basal fourth, hind angles large

and nearly right; Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and adjacent North

Carolina roamcus Barr

Pronotum with sides convergent, hind angles small, various (Figs. 3, 4, 5)

7

7(6). Range: mountains of western North Carolina 8

Range: Cumberland plateau from Rockcastle County, Kentucky, to

Grundy County, Tennessee cumherlandus Barr

8(7). Range: Black and Great Craggy mountains and vicinity 9

Range: south and west of Asheville 11

9(8). Smaller, 3. 4-4. 2 mm, eye diameter equal to or greater than scape length;

pronotum sides feebly sinuate before hind angles; elytra with four

complete striae and trace of 5th stria; apical groove ending well in

advance of anterior apical puncture 10

Larger, 4.4-4. 8 mm, eye diameter less than scape length; pronotum sides

not sinuate, hind angles obtuse and sharp; elytra with five shallow,

complete striae and traces of 6th and 7th striae; apical groove short,

ending at level of anterior apical puncture carolinae Schaeffer

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10(9). Pronotum (Fig. 4) sides feebly sinuate before obtuse hind angles; aedeagus

apex slender, attenuate, tipped with more or less rounded knob

schwarzi scopulosus, new subspecies

Pronotum sides very briefly but distinctly sinuate before very small, right

hind angles; aedeagus apex not attenuate, tipped with knob bearing

sharp ventral cusp mitchellensis Barr

1 1 (8). Larger, 3. 8-4. 4 mm; pronotum (Fig. 3) a little less transverse, sides

shallowly sinuate before hind angles; aedeagus (Fig. 23) 1.31-1.39 mm

long; Mt. Pisgah area, Buncombe, Haywood, and Transylvania

counties, North Carolina schwarzi schwarzi Jeannel

Smaller, 3. 4-3,6 mm; pronotum (Fig. 5) more transverse, sides more deeply

sinuate before hind angles; aedeagus (Fig. 24) 1.08-1.16 mm long; gorge

of North Pacolet River, Polk County, North Carolina

schwarzi saludae, new subspecies

12(1 ). Aedeagus with apex rounded, slightly knobbed, or briefly reflexed; AND/

OR internal sac without large, sharp scales which obscure transfer

apparatus 13

Aedeagus (Figs. 32-35) with apex conspicuously reflexed and hooked;

internal sac armed with many large, sharp scales which obscure

transfer apparatus; smaller species, 2. 7-3. 9 mm .... {uncifer group) 15

13(12). Aedeagus (Figs. 25-31 ) with apex gradually attenuate, rounded or slightly

knobbed at tip; transfer apparatus not obscured by scales, consisting of

two lamellar copulatory sclerites, left small and triangular, right larger

and apically rounded; smaller species 2. 4-3. 3 mm long, aedeagus 0.43-

0.92 mm (vandykei group) 20

Aedeagus (Figs. 36-43) with apex broad, very briefly narrowed and slightly

reflexed at tip; transfer apparatus of heavily sclerotized copulatory

pieces, variable in structure but usually not as described above; medium

to large species, 3.3-5. 5 mm long, aedeagus 0.63-1.27 mm long

( nebulosus group) 27

14(12). Pronotum with sides not sinuate before hind angles, which are always

obtuse 15

Pronotum with sides at least feebly sinuate in basal tenth, hind angles

obtuse or less than obtuse; aedeagus as in Figs. 32-35 .... (aduncus) 17

15(14). Elytra with 3 inner longitudinal striae clearly impressed; aedeagus about

0.9-1 .5 mm long, apex greatly produced and slender 16

Elytra with at least 5 clearly impressed striae, disc rather depressed;

aedeagus about 0.7 mm long, apex briefly attenuate and produced;

Unicoi Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee talequah Barr

16(15). Length 2. 7-3. 2 mm; aedeagus arcuate, apex abruptly narrowed and

produced, 0.88-1 .03 mm long; Great Smoky and Plott Balsam

mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee uncifer Barr

Length 3.2-3. 5 mm; aedeagus very long (1.47-1.49 mm) and straight, apex

greatly produced and not deflexed; Great Balsam Mountains, North

Carolina satanicus Barr

17(14). Elytra with two clearly impressed inner striae, 3rd and 4th striae (if

present) very shallow; Great Balsam Mountains and associated spurs,

North Carolina 18

Elytra with 5, rarely 4 or 6 striae; Cowee and Nantahala mountains,

North Carolina 19

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18(17). Aedeagus (Fig. 32) thicker, apex briefly produced; Great Balsam

mountain crest, also Pisgah Ledge aduncus aduncus Barr

Aedeagus (Fig. 33) more slender, apex produced and slightly swollen

before terminal hook; Toxaway Mountain

aduncus toxawayi , new subspecies

19(17). Aedeagus (Fig. 35) with median lobe strongly arcuate at middle, basal

bulb and anterior portion bent at right angles to apical portion;

apex with reflexed hook; Nantahala Mountains, North Carolina

aduncus howellae , new subspecies

Aedeagus (Fig. 34) with straight middle portion of median lobe, only

basal bulb bent at right angle; apex produced and knobbed; Cowee

Mountains, North Carolina aduncus coweensis , new subspecies

20(13). Length 2. 6-3. 2 mm, elytra narrower and with 2 to 4 clearly defined

striae; aedeagus smaller, 0.45-0.82 mm long 21

Length 3. 1-3.3 mm, elytra broadly oval, with at least 5 well-defined

striae; aedeagus 0.85-0.92 mm long; eastern Great Smoky and Plott

Balsam mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee subtilis Barr

21 (20). Larger, length 2. 8-3. 2, mean 3.0 mm; aedeagus 0.64-0.82 mm long

(Figs. 30, 31); elytra usually with 3 inner striae clearly defined .... 22

Smaller, length 2. 5-2. 9, mean 2.7 mm; aedeagus length 0.45-0.72 mm

(Figs. 25-29); elytra usually with either 2 or 4 inner striae clearly

defined 23

22(21). Aedeagus (Fig. 30) more slender, apex gradually attenuate, slightly

knobbed and feebly reflexed; widely distributed in southwestern

North Carolina, northeast Georgia, southeast Tennessee

barberi (Jeannel)

Aedeagus (Fig. 31) thicker, apex broader and reflexed, apical knob a

little larger; known only from western Great Smoky Mountains, North

Carolina-Tennessee tomtru Barr

23(21). Pronotum with hind angles obtuse, sides not sinuate before base (Figs. 9,

10) 24

Pronotum with hind angles right or slightly more than right, sides briefly

but distinctly sinuate before base (Figs. 6, 7, 8) 25

24(23). Hind angles of pronotum rounded (Fig. 10); aedeagus (Fig. 29) 0.58-0.72

mm long, apex gradually attenuate and terminating in small, reflexed

knob; Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee

bowling i Barr

Hind angles not rounded (Fig. 9); aedeagus (Fig. 28) 0.49-0.58 mm long,

apex produced and bluntly truncate; Tusquitee, Snowbird, and Cheoah

mountains, North Carolina tusquitee , new species

25(23). Elytra with only the inner 2 striae clearly defined, but with traces of 3rd

and 4th striae; pronotum shallowly sinuate before hind angles;

parameres usually with 5 apical setae ( vandykei ) 26

Elytra with inner 4 striae more or less equally impressed; sides of

pronotum briefly but distinctly sinuate before small, more or less right

hind angles; parameres with 4 apical setae; Unicoi Mountains,

North Carolina-Tennessee haoe , new species

26(25). Pronotum sides more strongly rounded, hind angles nearly right (Fig. 6);

aedeagus (Fig. 25) a little larger, 0.46-0.51 mm, less arcuate; Black and

Great Craggy mountains north to Bald Mountains, North Carolina-

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Tennessee vandykei vandykei (Jeannel)

Pronotum sides more oblique, hind angles a little obtuse (Fig. 7);

aedeagus (Fig. 26) slightly smaller, 0.45-0.49 mm, more arcuate; Great

Balsams, Pisgah Ledge, and Cowee Mountains, North Carolina

vandykei pisgahensis, new subspecies

27(13). Eyes small and subconvex to flat, their short diameter 2/3 to 3/4 length

of scape 28

Eyes large and convex, their short diameter subequal to scape length,

or greater than scape length 35

28(27). Sides of pronotum distinctly sinuate before hind angles 29

Sides of pronotum not sinuate, or very briefly and almost imperceptibly

sinuate 31

29(28). Hind angles more or less right, apical recurrent groove long, joining or

directed toward 5th stria far in advance of anterior apical puncture . . .

( tennesseensis ) 30

Hind angles obtuse (Figs. 17, 45); apical recurrent groove joining 5th stria

a short distance in advance of anterior apical puncture; Nantahala

Mountains, North Carolina nantahalae , new species

30(29). Clypeus with pair of oblique striae internal to clypeofrontal grooves; caves

in Roane County, Tennessee tennesseensis tennesseensis Barr

Clypeus without oblique striae internal to clypeofrontal grooves; caves

and lowland forests in Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee

tennesseensis tauncus Barr

31(28). Apical recurrent groove short, joining 5th stria at level of anterior apical

puncture; pronotum sides very feebly sinuate or not sinuate before hind

angles; hind angles small; elytra with 3 to 5 striae 32

Apical recurrent groove long, joining 5th stria well in advance of anterior

apical puncture; pronotum sides not sinuate, hind angles large, blunt,

obtuse (Fig. 44); elytra usually with 5 striae; spruce-fir forests in central

Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee . novaculosus Barr

32(31). Elytra with 3 to 6 striae, but at most only 4 striae well impressed;

pronotum as in Figs. 11, 12; apex of aedeagus produced, knobbed, or

hooked; spruce-fir forest in Great Smoky Mountains 33

Elytra with at least 5 well impressed striae; pronotum as in Fig. 16; apex

of aedeagus broad, finely reflexed only at tip; caves in Tuckaleechee

Cove, Blount County, Tennessee tuckaleechee Barr

33(32). Pronotum (Fig. 1 1 ) sides scarcely or not sinuate; usually at least 5 or 6

striae visible, though only inner 2 to 4 are well impressed; aedeagus

0.92-1 .02 mm long 34

Pronotum (Fig. 12) sides finely sinuate immediately before the small,

right, hind angles; inner 2 elytral striae complete but lightly impressed,

3rd stria shallower, 4th evanescent; aedeagus (Fig. 38) 0.77 mm long

(unique holotype), apex produced and reflexed at tip; known only from

Ramsay Cascades area, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee

stupkai, new species

34(33). Elytra usually with only inner 2 striae well impressed, although striae 3

through 5 usually discernible as progressively obsolescent traces;

aedeagus (Fig. 37) slender and elongate, apex gradually attenuate and

hooked at tip, parameres slender, with 4 apical setae; eastern Great

Smoky Mountains verus Barr

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Elytra usually with 4 well impressed striae, stria (4 and) 5 obsolescent

trace; aedeagus (Fig. 36) much thicker, apex briefly produced, twisted

to left, deflexed, feebly knobbed; parameres shorter, broader,

non-styliform; with oblique apexes bearing 3-4 setae; central Great

Smoky Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee . . valentinei , new species

35(27). Sides of pronotum distinctly sinuate before right or acute hind angles

(Figs. 13, 14, 15) ( luculentus ) 36

Sides of pronotum very feebly and briefly sinuate before obtuse hind

angles 38

36(35). Apical recurrent groove long, joining 5th stria well in advance of anterior

apical puncture; pronotum as in Figs. 14, 15; elytra with inner 3 striae

deeply impressed, inner 3 intervals convex 37

Apical recurrent groove short, joining 5th stria at level of anterior

apical puncture; pronotum as in Fig. 13; elytra with 4 inner striae

moderately impressed, 4 intervals subconvex; central Great Smoky

Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee luculentus luculentus Barr

37(36). Aedeagus 0.95-1.04 mm long; outer striae feeble but discernible; Unicoi

Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee . luculentus unicoi, new subspecies

Aedeagus 0.84-0.92 mm long; outer striae obsolete; Wayah Bald area in

Nantahala Mountains, North Carolina

luculentus wayahensis, new subspecies

38(35). Elytra with 3 to 5 moderately impressed striae 39

Elytra with all striae very feebly impressed, inner 2 or 3 striae barely

discernible; Plott Balsam Mountains, North Carolina . balsamensis Barr

39(38). Length 4. 5-5.0 mm; elytra with 4 or 5 striae; Plott Balsams and western

Great Balsam Mountains, North Carolina rosenbergi Barr

Length 3. 3-4.0 mm; elytra with 3 to 4 striae; central Great Smoky

Mountains, North Carolina-Tennessee nebulosus Barr

CLASSIFICATION OF APPALACHIAN TRECHUS

Trechus , sensu stricto

hydropicus group

hydropicus hydropicus (Horn) — western Maryland and Virginia, eastern

West Virginia (widespread taxon)

hydropicus avus Barr — Ashe and Avery counties, North Carolina

hydropicus beutenmuellen Jeannel — Black, Great Craggy, Bald, and Roan

mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee (widespread taxon)

hydropicus cams Barr — Grayson, Washington, and Lee counties, Virginia,

to Harlan and Letcher counties, Kentucky

schwarzi schwarzi Jeannel — Pisgah Ledge, Haywood-Buncombe-Tran-

sylvania counties, North Carolina

schwarzi scopulosus, new subspecies — Black and Great Craggy mountains,

Yancey-Buncombe-McDowell counties, North Carolina

schwarzi saludae , new subspecies — North Pacolet River gorge, Polk

County, North Carolina

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cumberlandus Barr — Cumberland plateau from Rockcastle County, Ken-

tucky, southwest to Grundy County, Tennessee (widespread taxon)

mitchellensis Barr — Black Mountains, Yancey, Buncombe, and

McDowell counties, North Carolina

carolinae Schaeffer — Black Mountains, Yancey County, North Carolina

roanicus Barr — Roan Mountain, Carter County, Tennessee, and Mitchell

County, North Carolina.

Figs. 1-5. Pronota of Trechus species, hydropicus group: 1. T. hydropicus hydropicus (Horn),

Mountain Lake, Virginia. 2. T. roanicus Barr, Roan Mountain, Tennessee. 3. T. schwarzi

schwarzi Jeannel, Mt. Pisgah, North Carolina. 4. T. schwarzi scopulosus, new subspecies,

Craggy Dome, North Carolina. 5. T. schwarzi saiudae, new subspecies, Melrose, North

Carolina.

Subgenus Microtrechus Jeannel

vandykei group

vandykei vandykei (Jeannel) — Black, Great Craggy, and Bald mountains,

North Carolina and Tennessee (widespread taxon)

vandykei pisgahensis , new subspecies — Great Balsam and Cowee moun-

tains, Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, and Transylvania counties,

North Carolina

haoe, new species — Unicoi Mountains, Graham County, North Carolina

tusquitee , new species — Tusquitee/Valley River, Snowbird, and Cheoah

mountains, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, and Swain counties,

North Carolina

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bowlingi'Barr — Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee

(abundant and widespread in the Smokies)

barben (Jeannel) — Unaka mountain and Blue Ridge provinces south and

west of Asheville in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and

Tennessee (widespread taxon)

tomtru Barr — Thunderhead Mountain, Blount County, Great Smoky

Mountains, Tennessee

subtilis Barr — eastern Great Smoky and Plott Balsam mountains,

Haywood and Jackson counties, North Carolina.

Figs. 6-10. Pronota of Trechus species, vandykei group: 6. T. vandykei vandykei (Jeannel),

Balsam Gap, North Carolina. 7. T. vandykei pis gahensis, new subspecies, Mt. Pisgah, North

Carolina. 8. T. haoe, new species, Haoe Lead, North Carolina. 9. T. tusquitee , new species,

Tusquitee Bald, North Carolina. 10. T. bowlingi Barr, Mt. Sterling, North Carolina.

uncifer group

uncxfer Barr — central Great Smoky Mountains east to Plott Balsam

Mountains, Sevier and Cocke counties, Tennessee, and Haywood and

Jackson counties, North Carolina

satamcus Barr — Great Balsam Mountains, Haywood County, North

Carolina

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aduncus aduncus Barr — Great Balsam Mountains, Haywood, Buncombe,

Jackson, and Transylvania counties, North Carolina

aduncus toxawayi , new subspecies — Toxaway Mountain, Jackson County,

North Carolina

aduncus coweensis, new subspecies — Cowee Mountains, Macon County,

North Carolina

Figs. 11-17. Pronota of Trechus species, nebulosus group: 11. T. valentinei, new species, Mt.

Kephart, North Carolina-Tennessee. 12. T. stupkai, new species, Ramsay Prong, Tennessee.

13. T. luculentus luculentus Barr, Clingmans Dome, North Carolina-Tennessee. 14. T.

luculentus unicoi, new subspecies, Haw Knob, Tennessee. 15. T. luculentus wayahensis, new sub-

species, Dirty John Creek, North Carolina. 16. T. tuckaleechee Barr, Tuckaleechee Caverns,

Tennessee. 17. T. nantahalae, new species, Burningtown Bald, North Carolina.

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aduncus howellae, new subspecies — Nantahala Mountains, Macon

County, North Carolina

talequah Barr — Unicoi Mountains, Graham County, North Carolina,

and Monroe County, Tennessee

nebulosus group

nebulosus Barr — central and eastern Great Smoky Mountains, North

Carolina and Tennessee

balsamensis Barr — Plott Balsam Mountains, Haywood and Jackson coun-

ties, North Carolina

valentinei , new species — central Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina

and Tennessee

verus Barr — eastern Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Ten-

nessee

stupkai , new species — Ramsay Prong, Sevier County, Tennessee, in

Great Smoky Mountains

novaculosus Barr — central Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and

Tennessee

luculentus luculentus Barr — Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and

Tennessee (widespread in the Smokies)

luculentus umcoi, new subspecies — Unicoi Mountains, Graham County,

North Carolina, and Monroe County, Tennessee

luculentus wayahensis, new subspecies — Nantahala and Tusquitee/Valley

River mountains, Clay and Macon counties, North Carolina

rosenbergi Barr — Plott Balsam and western Great Balsam mountains,

Haywood and Jackson counties, North Carolina

tuckaleechee Barr — Tuckaleechee Caverns, Great Smoky Mountains,

Blount County, Tennessee

tennesseensis tennesseensis Barr — Berry Cave, Roane County, Tennessee

tennesseensis tauncus Barr — Bull Cave and vicinity, Great Smoky Mon-

tains, Blount County, Tennessee

nantahalae , new species — Burningtown Bald, Nantahala Mountains,

Macon County, North Carolina

LOCAL MOUNTAIN FAUNAS OF TRECHUS SPECIES

These lists of guilds of associated species reflect changes in the names of

some of the species, as well as additions to the known fauna since publica-

tion of my 1962 paper on Appalachian Trechus. The Cowee and Nan-

tahala mountains must be added to the list of mountain ranges with en-

demic species or subspecies. Toxaway Mountain, North Carolina, har-

bors one endemic subspecies, T. aduncus toxawayi , along with the common

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T. barberi. An asterisk (*) indicates strict endemism; a dagger (f)

dicates the taxon is endemic to two adjacent ranges.

A) Roan Mountain, North Carolina-Tennessee

hydropicus beutenmuellen

*roanicus

B) Black and Great Craggy mountains, North Carolina

hydropicus beutenmuellen *carolinae

*schwarzi scopulosus vandykei vandykei

*mitchellensis

C) Great Balsam Mountains and Pisgah Ledge, North Carolina

schwarzi schwarzi *aduncus aduncus

\ vandykei pisgahensis *satanicus

barberi \rosenbergi

D) Cowee Mountains, North Carolina

f vandykei pisgahensis

barberi

*aduncus coweensis

E) Plott Balsam Mountains, North Carolina

barberi *balsamensis

\subtihs \rosenbergi

\uncifer

F) Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee

*bowlingi

barberi

*tonitru

^ verus

*stupkai

*novaculosus

\subtilis

\uncifer

*nebulosus

*valentinei

*luculentus luculentus

*tuckaleechee (in cave)

*tennesseensis tauricus (in cave

entrance)

G) Nantahala and adjacent mountains, North Carolina

*tusquitee * luculentus wayahensis

barberi *nantahalae

*aduncus howellae

H) Unicoi Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee

*haoe

barberi

*talequah

* luculentus umcoi

in-

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SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNTS

Trechus Clairville

Subgenus Trechus , sensu stricto

hydropicus group

Trechus (Trechus) hydropicus hydropicus Horn, new status

Figs. 1, 18

Trechus hydropicus Horn 1883:273. Type locality, “Virginia”; type depos-

ited in Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Jeannel 1931:435.

Barr 1962: 71.

Few specimens of typical T. hydropicus were available prior to 1960,

most of them labeled “Va.”, “W.Va.”, and “Md.” I suggested (Barr

1962:72) that T. hydropicus and T. beutenmuellen Jeannel might eventually

prove to belong to a widespread polytypic species, but did not then have

sufficient fresh material to justify the recombination. The type of T.

hydropicus bears the label, “Va., Ulke”. I propose restriction of the type

locality to Bald Knob, Mountain Lake, Giles County, Virginia; T.

hydropicus is moderately abundant at that locality, and it is within the area

known to have been visited by Ulke.

In comparison with other subspecies, T. h. hydropicus has an aedeagus of

medium length (0.93-0.99 m), the apex of the median lobe straight and

0 0.5mm

» -*

Figs. 18-21. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view: 18. T. hydropicus hydropicus (Horn),

Mountain Lake, Virginia. 19. T. hydropicus avus Barr, Grandfather Mountain, North

Carolina. 20. T. hydropicus beutenmuellen Jeannel, Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina. 21. T.

hydropicus canus Barr, White Top Mountain, Virginia.

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minutely knobbed in left lateral view. The pronotum is two-thirds as long

as wide; the elytral disc is slightly flattened in the center, and its inner

longitudinal striae are more deeply impressed.

New locality records for T. h. hydropicus are as follows; unlike the very

general locations given on museum labels of 19th century collections,

these localities suggest- a distribution encompassing the Blue Ridge and

western mountains of Virginia, eastern West Virginia, possibly north into

western Maryland (“Md.” labels must apply to specimens from the

higher elevations in Maryland). VIRGINIA: Giles County. — Bald Knob

at Mountain Lake, elevation 4350 ft. (1325 m) (T. C. Barr — restricted

type locality); Cascades of Little Stony Creek, 2 mi. (3.2 km) nw of above

locality, elevation 3000 ft. (900 m) (S. B. Peck). Patrick County. — Pin-

nacles of Dan, along Blue Ridge Parkway near Vesta (R. Hoffman and L.

Knight). Rockbridge County. — Apple Orchard Mountain (R. Hoffman).

Tazewell County. — Burkes Garden (R. Hoffman). WEST VIRGINIA;

Pocahontas County. — Ravine n of Route 39, 4 mi. (6.4 km) nw Mill Point,

elevation 3500 ft. (1100 m) (T. C. Barr); Falls of Hills Creek, 4 mi. (6.4

km) nw Lobelia, elevation 3300 ft. (1000 m) (S. B. Peck).

Trechus ( Trechus ) hydropicus avus Barr, new combination

Fig. 19

Trechus beutenmullen avus Barr 1962: 72. Type locality, Grandfather Moun-

tain, Avery County, North Carolina; type deposited in United States

National Museum of Natural History (USNM).

This subspecies is known only from Grandfather Mountain and Three

Top Mountain (Ashe County), North Carolina. It differs from T.

hydropicus hydropicus in the slightly longer aedeagus (0.99-1.02), the apex of

which is more conspicuously knobbed and reflexed. The pronotum is only

0.6 as long as wide, and the elytral striae are more feebly impressed.

Trechus h. avus intergrades with T. h. beutenmuellen on Beech Mountain,

Avery County, North Carolina (see Barr 1962:73).

Trechus ( Trechus ) hydropicus beutenmuellen Jeannel, new combination

Fig. 20

Trechus Beutenmullen Jeannel 1931: 436. Type locality, Mt. Mitchell, Yan-

cey County, North Carolina; type deposited in Museum National

d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNP) (not seen).

Trechus hydropicus: Schaeffer 1901 : 212. Casey 1918:410. Jeannel 1927:191.

Trechus beutenmullen beutenmullen'. Barr 1962:72.

This subspecies is abundant at higher elevations from the Black and

Great Craggy mountains (Buncombe, Yancey, McDowell counties) of

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North Carolina northward to the Bald Mountains along the Tennessee-

North Carolina border. The northernmost limit appears to be Roan

Mountain, Carter County, Tennessee — Mitchell County, North

Carolina. The aedeagus is the smallest among the four subspecies of 77

hydropicus (0.84-0.90 mm long), its apex slender, attenuate, slightly inflec-

ted but not knobbed. The pronotum is only 0.6 as long as wide, the elytral

disc is convex, and the elytral striae are feebly impressed; the elytral

apexes are more tapered than in other subspecies of 77 hydropicus.

Trechus (Trechus) hydropicus cams Barr, new combination

Fig. 21

Trechus beutenmulleri cams Barr 1962:73. Type locality, Whitetop Moun-

tain, Grayson County, Virginia (USNM).

Originally described from Whitetop Mountain in extreme southwest

Virginia, T. h. cams has more recently been collected in Bowling Cave,

0.75 mile (1.2 km) southeast of Ben Hur, Lee County, Virginia, elevation

1700 feet (500 m) (J. R. Holsinger); from the summit of Big Black Moun-

tain, Harlan County, Kentucky, elevation 4000 feet (1200 m) (T. C. Barr

and S. B. Peck); and from the north slope of Pine Mountain, Kingdom

Come State Park, Letcher County, Kentucky, elevation 2000 feet (600 m)

(T. C. Barr). The range of the subspecies thus extends across the Ap-

palachian valley floor from the Unakas to the Allegheny front; it probably

intergrades with T. h. hydropicus farther north, but intermediate popula-

tions have not yet been discovered.

The aedeagus of T. h. cams is long (0.96-1.02 mm), the apex

prominently inflected in left lateral view but not noticeably knobbed at

the tip. Externally T. h. cams is virtually indistinguishable from T. h.

hydropicus , with the pronotum fully two-thirds as long as wide, and the in-

ner elytral striae rather deeply impressed.

Trechus (Trechus) schwarzi schwarzi Jeannel, new status

Figs. 3, 23

Trechus Schwarzi Jeannel 1931:437. Type locality, “Roan High Knob”,

but corrected to Retreat, Haywood County, North Carolina; type

deposited in USNM. Barr 1962:74 (in part).

As previously noted (Barr 1962: 75), the type locality of T. schwarzi is

Retreat, near the present site of Sunburst and Lake Logan, in the Great

Balsam Mountains, Haywood County, North Carolina. Additional

material which I recently collected at Mt. Pisgah, Haywood-Buncombe

counties, and Buck Spring, Transylvania County, enabled me to make a

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Figs. 22-24. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view: 22. T. schwarzi scopulosus, new sub-

species, Craggy Dome, North Carolina. 23. T. schwarzi schwarzi Jeannel, Mt. Pisgah, North

Carolina. 24. T. schwarzi saludae, new subspecies, Melrose, North Carolina.

careful comparison of topotypic 77 schwarzi with similar populations in

the Great Craggy and Black mountains north of the French Broad River

valley. The latter proved to be taxonomically distinct and are described

below. The nominate subspecies is thus restricted to populations of

Pisgah Ledge, which is the eastern arm of the Great Balsams; 77 schwarzi

has not been taken at other localities in the Great Balsams.

My earlier description of 77 schwarzi (Barr 1962) was based on a

paratype from Retreat and is essentially correct, but the aedeagal sketch

which accompanied it (Fig. 7) applies to 77 s. scopulosus (described below).

A female Trechus specimen from Tusquitee Bald, Clay-Macon counties,

North Carolina, which I thought “may belong to schwarzi ” (Barr

1962:75), is assigned to T. ( Microtrechus) luculentus wayahensis (described

below), a species and subspecies now known to be abundant in the

Wayah Bald area, scarcely 10 miles (16 km) from Tusquitee Bald.

Nominate schwarzi is 3. 8-4. 4, mean 4.0 mm long. The hind angles are

rather prominent and usually acute because of a relatively deep sinuosity

in the lateral margins of the pronotum. Longitudinal striae of the elytra

are rather shallowly impressed, the third through the sixth progressively

obsolescent, the seventh absent. The aedeagus (1.31-1.39, mean 1.35 mm

long) is weakly arcuate, with large basal bulb, a more or less straight mid-

dle portion, and reflexed, attenuate, and knobbed apex.

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Trechus (Trechus) schwarzi scopulosus, new subspecies

Figs. 4, 22

Trechus schwarzi : Barr 1962:74, in part. NOT Jeannel 1931:437.

Etymology. — Latin scopulosus , “craggy; ” a reference to the type locality.

Description. — Differs from T. s. schwarzi in smaller size, less prominent

pronotal hind angles, deeper longitudinal striae of elytra; aedeagus

slightly smaller, more arcuate, apical knob more prominent. Length 3.4-

3.9, mean 3.6 mm. Sides of pronotum less deeply incised before hind

angles, which are small, sharp, and usually more or less right. Inner two

or three elytral striae distinctly and moderately impressed, outer striae

progressively obsolescent. Aedeagus 1.25-1.29, mean 1.26 mm long, simi-

lar to that of nominate schwarzi but more arcuate, consequently shorter;

parameres slightly shorter; apical knob much more prominent.

Type series. — Holotype male (American Museum of Natural History —

AMNH) and 18 paratypes, below summit of Craggy Dome, elevation

5600 feet (1700 m), Buncombe County, North Carolina, 22 July 1960, T.

C. Barr and M. C. Bowling.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.9, head 0.81

long X 0.84 wide, pronotum 0.71 long X 1.05 wide, elytra 2.33 long X

1.67 wide, antenna 1.92 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the Black and Great Craggy moun-

tains and the adjacent Blue Ridge, in Buncombe, McDowell, and Yancey

counties, North Carolina. Additional specimens, not made paratypes,

were collected on Mt. Mitchell, elevation 6600 feet (2000 m), in the Black

Mountains; and on the Pinnacle, elevation 5200 feet (1600 m), where the

Blacks join the Blue Ridge, near the Buncombe-McDowell-Yancey

county corner.

Trechus (Trechus) schwarzi saludae , new subspecies

Figs. 5, 24

Etymology. — Derived from Saluda, a town near the type locality.

Description. — Resembles T. schwarzi scopulosus in smaller size, less

prominent hind angles of pronotum, deeper longitudinal striae of elytra;

aedeagus smaller than in T. s. schwarzi or T. s. scopulosus , weakly arcuate

and with small apical knob as in nominate schwarzi. Length 3. 4-3. 7, mean

3.5 mm. Pronotum and elytra about as in T. s. scopulosus. Aedeagus 1.08-

1.16 mm long, weakly arcuate, apical knob small, apex rather sharply

deflexed.

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Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 29 paratypes, one mile (1.6

km) east of Melrose, from small, wet ravines on the south side of the gorge

of the North Pacolet River, elevation 1300 feet (350 m), Polk County,

North Carolina, 13 July 1969, T. C. Barr.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.7, head 0.86

long X 0.74 wide, pronotum 0.74 long X 1.02 wide, elytra 2.14 long X

1.60 wide, antenna 1.66 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality.

Discussion. — It is remarkable that this distinctive subspecies of T.

schwarzi should occur at such a low elevation, since both of the other sub-

species are known only at altitudes above 4500 feet (1400 m). The type

locality lies in second-growth forest between U. S. 176 and the Southern

Railway tracks a few miles southeast of Saluda. All specimens in the

series were collected from beneath mosses and liverworts on stones in or

at the edge of small, spring-fed brooks, where the cool temperature and

high humidity apparently create a suitable microenvironment. Trechus s.

saludae occurs farther from the eastern slope of the mountains and at a

lower elevation than any other North Carolina Trechus species yet known.

Melrose is approximately 35 miles (55 km) southeast of Mt. Pisgah, the

easternmost locality at which T. s. schwarzi has been collected.

The three taxa here placed in polytypic T. schwarzi are probably all ex-

trinsically isolated at the present time. However, survival of the T.

schwarzi stock at a comparatively low elevation near Saluda suggests that

other such insular populations may be scattered across the lowland areas

separating the three subspecies, perhaps restricted to cool, wet ravines in

the vicinity of springs. A gradual cooling of the regional climate could

unite these populations again.

Trechus ( Trechus ) cumberlandus Barr

Barr 1962:76, Fig. 9. Type locality, ‘Lish Steele Caves, Wayne County,

Kentucky; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus cumberlandus , closely similar to T. schwarzi but without a distinct

apical knob at the tip of the aedeagus, is a vicar species to T. schwarzi , oc-

curring in the Cumberland plateau of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.

Elsewhere (Barr 1962, 1969) I interpreted the species as a Wisconsin

relic. The range of T. cumberlandus extends along the western margin of the

Cumberland plateau from Rockcastle County, Kentucky, to Grundy

County, Tennessee. It has been collected in eleven localities, as follows:

KENTUCKY: Rockcastle County. — Pine Hill Cave, at Pine Hill; Sinks of

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Roundstone Cave, 0.8 mi. (1.3 km) ene Pine Hill. Pulaski County. —

Hydens Cave, 1.3 mi. (2.1 km) ne Blue John. Wayne County. — ‘Lish

Steele Caves, 3 mi. (4.8 km) e Monticello (type locality); Johnson Fork

Cave, 0.4 mi. (0.6 km) e Burfield; Upper Blowing Cave, at Sunnybrook.

TENNESSEE: Overton County. — Falling Springs Cave, 1.25 mi. (2 km)

wsw Hanging Limb. Putnam County. — Sinkhole in Calfkiller Valley, 0.7

mi. (1.1 km) se Bee Rock (near Monterey). Cumberland County. — Jewett

Cave, 0.5 mi. (0.8 km) ese summit Hinch Mountain. Van Buren County. —

Gorge below Fall Creek Falls (in State Park). Grundy County. — At spring

in Savage Gulf, near Beersheba Springs. The last two localities are

epigean. The Kentucky localities are at elevations of 800 to 980 feet (240

to 300 m) and those in Tennessee at 1100 to 2200 feet (335 to 670 m). The

series are relatively small except in the case of Hydens Cave, where about

80 specimens were collected far back in the cave on wet, rotting leaves

beside a deep pool.

Trechus (Trechus) mitchellensis Barr

Barr 1962:75, Fig. 8. Type locality, Celo Mountain, Yancey County,

North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus mitchellensis is known from three localities in the Black Moun-

tains (Celo Mountain, Mt. Mitchell, and Big Tom, all in Yancey

County), from the Pinnacle, where the Blacks intersect the Blue Ridge

(McDowell County), and from Balsam Gap, where the Blacks join the

Great Craggy Mountains (Buncombe County). All localities are at eleva-

tions between 4800 and 6500 feet (1460 to 2000 m) northeast of Asheville,

North Carolina. This species is moderately large (3.6-4. 2 mm), closely

similar to T. schwarzi scopulosus , with which it is both sympatric and syn-

topic. From T. s. scopulosus it is distinguished by the sharp ventral cusp on

the apical knob of the aedeagus and by the pronotum sides, which are

very briefly but distinctly sinuate before the small, right, hind angles. The

usual microhabitat is under moss carpets in spruce-fir forest.

Trechus ( Trechus ) carolinae Schaeffer

Schaeffer 1901 :212. Jeannel 1931 :439. Barr 1962:74, Fig. 6. Type locality,

Mt. Mitchell, Yancey County, North Carolina; type deposited in

AMNH.

Trechus carolinae is a very large (4. 5-5.0 mm) species for the Appala-

chian area. It is relatively rare, inhabiting deep spruce and fir needle duff

near the summits of the Black Mountains. On Mt. Mitchell I have taken a

small number of specimens by prying back the duff layer at the bases of

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low, wet cliffs near the summit. It coexists with four other Trechus species

(T. schwarzi scopulosus, T. mitchellensis, T. hydropicus beutenmuellen, T. van-

dykei vandykei ), but is easily distinguished by the large size. The apparent

rarity is probably real but could possibly reflect the comparatively inac-

cessible microhabitat in which it occurs.

Trechus (Trechus) roamcus Barr

Fig- 2

Barr 1962:73. Type locality, Roan Mountain, Carter County, Tennessee;

type deposited in USNM.

Trechus roanicus is known only from the type locality, where it occurs on

Roan High Bluff, the highest point on Roan Mountain (elevation 6313

feet) (1924 m). It is closely similar to T. hydropicus , but is larger (3. 8-4. 4

mm) and coexists with the smaller and much more abundant T. h.

beutenmuellen. The species occurs under moss carpets on north-facing

cliffs, in contrast to T. h. beutenmuellen , which is found not only in the same

microhabitat but also under wood chips, under moss on logs, and under

stones near seeps.

Subgenus Microtrechus Jeannel

vandykei group

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) vandykei vandykei (Jeannel), new status

Figs. 6, 25

Microtrechus Vandykei Jeannel 1927: 587, Figs. 1280-1285; 1931: 443. Type

locality, Black Mountains, North Carolina; type deposited in MNP

(not seen).

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) vandykei: Barr 1962:77 (in part).

Although geographic variation among the smaller beetles of the vandykei

group was previously noted (Barr 1962: 78), I separated out only the dis-

tinctive Smoky Mountains endemic, T. bowlingi, and incorrectly lumped

the remainder into T. vandykei. Further study of older collections and

much fresh material suggests that populations of the Great Balsams,

Pisgah Ledge, and Cowee Mountains differ (at least) subspecifically from

T. vandykei populations north of the French Broad valley, and that the

populations of (a) the Tusquitee/Valley River, Snowbird, and Cheoah

mountains and (b) the Unicoi Mountains, respectively, are best treated as

distinct species.

From T. bowlingi and T. tusquitee, which have very obtuse hind angles

on the pronotum, T. vandykei (s. lat.) is distinguished by the briefly but

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distinctly sinuate pronotum sides and the form of the aedeagus. From 77

haoe it is distinguished by having only two instead of four distinct elytral

striae; the aedeagus is less arcuate, and the parameres usually bear five

rather than four apical setae. Nominate vandykei differs from 77 v.

pisgahensis , which occurs south of the French Broad River valley, in the

nearly right hind angles of the pronotum and the slightly longer, slightly

less arcuate aedeagus.

Both subspecies of 77 vandykei are relatively common, but less so than

the somewhat larger 77 hydropicus beutenmuelleri or 77 barben. They occur in

leafmold or under moss carpets. Nominate vandykei is known from several

localities in the Black Mountains, the Great Craggy Mountains, at

Balsam Gap between these two ranges, and from the Pinnacle at the point

where the Blacks join the Blue Ridge (Yancey-Buncombe-McDowell

counties, North Carolina). It also occurs on Camp Creek Bald and Unaka

Mountain, in Greene and Unicoi counties, Tennessee, respectively. In the

Black Mountains it is sympatric with four other species of Trechus: 77

schwarzi scopulosus, 77 mitchellensis, 77 carolinae , and 77 hydropicus

beutenmuelleri.

Trechus ( Micro trechus) vandykei pisgahensis , new subspecies

Figs. 7, 26

Trechus (Microtrechus) vandykei: Barr 1962:77 (in part).

Etymology.— From Mt. Pisgah, the type locality.

Description. — Length 2. 5-2. 8, mean 2.7 mm. Closely similar to T. v.

vandykei , differing in more oblique sides and slightly obtuse hind angles of

pronotum; aedeagus more arcuate and slightly smaller, 0.45-0.49 mm

long.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 29 paratypes, Mt. Pisgah,

elevation 5000 feet (1524 m), Haywood-Buncombe counties, North

Carolina, 21 May 1961, T. C. Barr; 15 additional paratypes, same

locality and collector, 26 July 1960, 12 September 1964, and 17 August

1978.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 2.79, head 0.52

long X 0.55 wide, pronotum 0.51 long X 0.71 wide, elytra 1.54 long X

1.12 wide, antenna 1.22.

Distribution. — Occurs in the Great Balsam Mountains, Pisgah Ledge,

and the Cowee Mountains, separated from the range of T. v. vandykei by

the valley of the French Broad River. Additional localities other than Mt.

Pisgah are Shining Rock Road and Graveyard Fields, Haywood County;

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near Devils Courthouse, Transylvania County; and summit of Whiteside

Mountain, Jackson County, North Carolina.

Discussion. — This subspecies commonly is found beneath carpets of

moss on boulders. All collections have been made at relatively high

altitudes, between 4700 and 5400 feet (1400 and 1600 m). Because of ap-

parent altitudinal restriction there is, in my judgment, little or no gene

flow between T. v. vandykei and T. v. pisgahensis at the present time. Syn-

topic Trechus species include T. schwarzi schwarzi, 77 aduncus aduncus , and

T. barberi.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) haoe , new species

Figs. 8, 27

Trechus (. Microtrechus ) vandykei: Barr 1962:77 (in part).

Etymology.— From Haoe Lead, the type locality.

Diagnosis. — A small species of the vandykei group, with non-sinuate

pronotum sides, small, obtuse hind angles, four elytral striae, and a short,

evenly arcuate aedeagus the apex of which is neither produced, knobbed,

nor truncate.

Figs. 25-28. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view: 25. T. vandykei vandykei (Jeannel),

Balsam Gap, North Carolina. 26. T. vandykei pisgahensis, new subspecies, Mt. Pisgah, North

Carolina. 27. T. haoe , new species, Haoe Lead, North Carolina. 28. T. tusquitee , new species,

Tusquitee Bald, North Carolina.

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Description. — Length 2. 6-2. 9, mean 2.7 mm. Form small, robust, sub-

convex; color piceous, shining, all appendages pale, contrasting. Head

feebly transverse; labrum evenly emarginate; eye diameter 0.12-0.14 mm,

a little less than or subequal to scape length. Pronotum about 0.7 as long

as wide, sides arcuate apical two-thirds, then convergent and not sinuate

before small, obtuse, hind angles; greatest width in apical fourth. Elytra

1.4 times longer than wide, oval, subconvex, four longitudinal striae pres-

ent, outer striae obsolescent, apical groove wide and rather short, ter-

minating a short distance anterior to anterior apical puncture. Aedeagus

0.45-0.48, mean 0.46 mm long, strongly arcuate and rather slender, more

so than in T. vandykei pisgahensis which it most closely resembles;

parameres with four apical setae.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 21 paratypes, Haoe Lead,

elevation 4800 feet (1460 m) above Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest,

Graham County, North Carolina, 25 July 1960, T. C. Barr and M. C.

Bowling.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 2.70, head 0.49

long X 0.58 wide, pronotum 0.55 long X 0.80 wide, elytra 1.66 long X

1.19 wide, antenna 1.20 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality in the Unicoi Moun-

tains, along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Discussion. — Morphologically T. haoe is closest to T. vandykei pisgahensis,

but the geographic ranges of T. tusqmtee and T. bowlingi (two other closely

similar species) intervene, suggesting complete genetic isolation. The en-

tire type series was collected from beneath a moss carpet on a large

boulder. Associated with T. haoe , but less abundant, were T. talequah and

T. barben. Trechus luculentus umcoi, the only other species of the genus thus

far known from the Unicoi Mountains, has been collected nearby but not

at the same spot.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) tusquitee , new species

Figs. 9, 28

Trechus (Microtrechus) vandykei: Barr 1962:77 (in part).

Etymology. — From Tusquitee Bald, the type locality.

Diagnosis. — A small species of the vandykei group with obtuse, not

rounded, hind angles of the pronotum, four elytral striae, the aedeagal

apex produced and truncated.

Description. — Length 2. 6-3. 2, mean 2.8 mm. Form small, robust, sub-

convex; color piceous, shining, appendages all pale, contrasting. Head

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feebly transverse; labrum evenly emarginate; eye diameter 0.14-0. 15 mm,

a little less than or subequal to scape length. Pronotum less than 0.7 as

long as wide, sides arcuate apical two-thirds, then convergent and barely

sinuate or not sinuate before obtuse hind angles; greatest width in apical

fourth. Elytra 1.4 times longer than wide, oval, subconvex, four

longitudinal striae and trace of fifth present, apical groove wide and

rather short, terminating at or a little anterior to level of anterior apical

puncture. Aedeagus 0.49-0.58, mean 0.53 mm long, basal bulb large and

bent at right angle to median lobe, apex narrowed, produced, abruptly

truncate; parameres long, rather slender, each with four apical setae.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 19 paratypes, Tusquitee

Bald, Clay-Macon counties, North Carolina, 4 August 1960, T. C. Barr

and M. C. Bowling.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 2.95, head 0.57

long X 0.60 wide, pronotum 0.54 long X 0.83 wide, elytra 1.71 long X

1.23 wide, antenna 1.28 long.

Distribution. — The species is known at present from three small moun-

tain ranges in southwestern North Carolina, the Tusquitee/Valley River,

Snowbird, and Cheoah mountains. Two additional localities from which

I have collected T. tusquitee are Joanna (^Teyahalee) Bald, Graham-

Cherokee counties, and Cheoah Bald, Graham-Swain counties. It may

also occur in the adjacent Nantahala Mountains, although none of the

small, vandykei-\ike species have yet been found there.

Discussion. — The altitudinal range of T. tusquitee is about 3500 to 5000

feet (1070 to 1525 m); it was collected near Old Road Gap on the slopes

of Tusquitee Bald, on the north-facing cliff at the summit of Tusquitee

Bald, at a spring on the same mountain at an intermediate elevation, at

about 4500 feet (1370 m) near the summit of Joanna Bald, and at 5060

feet (1540 m) on the summit of Cheoah Bald.

The broadly transverse pronotum with obtuse hind angles and wide

marginal gutter (Fig. 9) suggests affinity with 77 bowhngi, which inhabits

the Great Smoky Mountains northeast of the range of T. tusquitee , but the

smaller and apically truncate aedeagus indicates probable status as a dis-

tinct species. Taken with T. tusquitee on Tusquitee Bald were two other

species of Trechus, T. barben and T. luculentus wayahensis.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) bowlingi Barr

Figs. 10, 29

Barr 1962:78. Type locality, Mt. Kephart, Great Smoky Mountains,

Sevier County, Tennessee; type deposited in USNM.

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Figs. 29-31. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view: 29. T. bowlingi Barr, Mt. Kephart,

North Carolina-Tennessee. 30. T. barben (Jeannel), Sassafras Knob, North Carolina-South

Carolina. 31. T. tomtru Barr, Thunderhead (Mountain), Tennessee.

Trechus bowlingi is limited to the Great Smoky Mountains, where it is

a vicar species replacing the similar T. vandykei, T. tusqmtee , and T.

haoe. Like the latter species, it occurs in a variety of habitats, such as

moss carpets, rotting leaf litter, and wet soil beneath stones. Its

altitudinal range is about 3000 to 6500 feet (900 to 2000 m). Along the

crest of the central Smokies, between Newfound Gap and Clingmans

Dome, it coexists with two other small species, T. barben and T. uncifer ,

and four larger species, T. nebulosus, T. valentinei, T. luculentus , and T.

novaculosus. Characters useful in distinguishing T. bowlingi, T. barben ,

and T. uncifer are given elsewhere in the present paper in the discussion

of T. uncifer. Among the four small species of the vandykei group, T.

bowlingi is easily differentiated by the large aedeagus and the blunt, ob-

tuse hind angles of the pronotum.

Trechus (Microtrechus) barben (Jeannel)

Fig. 30

Microtrechus Barben Jeannel 1931:444, Figs. 55-57. Type locality, Retreat,

Haywood County, North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) barben : Barr 1962:78.

Trechus barben occupies a range which includes the Great Balsams and

Pisgah Ledge, North Carolina, and extends southwestward to extreme

eastern Tennessee, the mountains of northeast Georgia, and the South

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Carolina border. Both altitudinally and geographically it is the most

widely distributed of the Unaka assemblage of Trechus species, ranging

from the highest summits in the Great Balsams, Plott Balsams, and Great

Smokies down to 2400 feet (730 m) in the gorge of the Whitewater River.

Additional collections made since 1962 serve firmly to establish its ubiq-

uity in the main portion of its range, and I list only the southern

peripheral records below.

GEORGIA: Towns County. — Summit of Tray Mountain, elevation

4400 feet (1340 m) near White-Habersham county corner. Rabun County.

— Coleman River gorge, 0.4 mile (0.6 km) above mouth of the river in

ravines on southwest slope of Straw Mountain. Gilmer County. — Quarry

near summit of Betty Mountain, elevation 3300 feet (1000 m) on crest of

Cohutta Mountain. Murray County. — Northeast slopes of Grassy Moun-

tain along Mill Creek, elevation 3100 feet (945 m). NORTH

CAROLINA — SOUTH CAROLINA: Sassafras Mountain, elevation

3500 feet (1070 m), Transylvania-Pickens county line. NORTH CAR-

OLINA-— TENNESSEE; 0.5 mile (0.8 km) south of Stratton Meadows

on Johns Knob, elevation 4600 feet (1400 m), Graham-Monroe county

line.

The larger species of the vandykei group include T. barben, T. tomtru, and

T. subtilis. The relationship of the latter two species to T. barben is un-

clear, but probably they represent isolates whose range has been invaded

by the ecologically more successful and more abundant T. barben. The

status of T. tomtru needs clarification: it is apparently well within the

geographic range of T. barben , but the two species have not been taken

syntopically, and T. tomtru is still known from a single site. On the other

hand, T. subtilis coexists with T. barben , although it is much less

abundant.

Trechus (Microtrechus) tomtru Barr

Fig. 31

Barr 1962:79. Type locality, Thunderhead, Great Smoky Mountains,

Blount County, Tennessee; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus tomtru is known only from the summit of Thunderhead, eleva-

tion 5500 feet (1675 m) in the western Great Smoky Mountains, on the

border between Blount County, Tennessee, and Swain County, North

Carolina. The entire type series of 19 specimens was collected from

beneath moss in a scrubby heath thicket just below the top of the moun-

tain on the north (Tennessee) side. The species is closely similar to T.

barben , but the apex of the pronotum is a little wider than the base, the

pronotum sides are slightly sinuate before the right to slightly obtuse hind

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angles, and the apical groove is longer and oblique to the suture. The

aedeagus, 0.76-0.81 mm long, is a little larger than that of 77 barben; its

apex is slender, slightly reflexed, and finely knobbed, the copulatory

pieces are broader, and the parameres are conspicuously thicker and

shorter.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) subtilis Barr

Barr 1962:80, Fig. 15. Type locality, Mt. Sterling, Haywood County,

North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

This rare species is similar to 77 barberi , with which it is sympatric and

syntopic. Only nine specimens are known, six of them from the slopes of

Mt. Sterling in the eastern Great Smoky Mountains, and three from

Jones Knob (^Junaluska Balsam) in the Plott Balsam Mountains; both

localities are in Haywood County, North Carolina. In comparison with

T. barberi, 77 subtilis is a little larger and more robust, with propor-

tionately smaller eyes, slightly transverse head, more arcuate pronotum

sides which are shallowly but distinctly sinuate before the right to slightly

obtuse hind angles, proportionately wider elytra with five distinct

longitudinal striae, and an oblique apical groove. The aedeagus, 0.85-

0.92 mm long, is larger, more slender, and less arcuate than that of 77

barberi , but shows the same general pattern.

uncifer group

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) uncifer Barr

Barr 1962:80, Fig. 16. Type locality, Clingmans Dome, Sevier County,

Tennessee; type deposited in USNM.

This species is known only from the spruce-fir forests of the central

Great Smoky Mountains and from Water Rock Knob, in the Plott

Balsams, between altitudes of 5500 and 6500 feet (1675 and 2000 m).

Males are immediately distinguished by the dense spines of the internal

sac and the long, slender, produced, hooked aedeagal apex. In the

Smokies, the only other species of Trechus in the same size range and same

localities (Clingmans Dome, Mt. Buckley, Collins Gap, Mt. Collins,

Sugarland Mountain) are T. barberi and T. bowlingi. Trechus bowlingi dif-

fers from both T. uncifer and T. barberi in slightly smaller size (2. 6-2. 9 mm,

mean 2.7 mm), evenly convex elytra not flattened on the central part of

the disc, and certain pronotal characters: pronotum very transverse,

nearly a half wider than long, marginal gutter broad and extending past

hind angles onto sides of base, hind angles very obtuse and slightly round-

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ed, sides scarcely sinuate before angles. Externally 77 uncifer can usually

be distinguished from 77 barben by the following combination of charac-

ters: Color of body and appendages more contrasting; head, pronotum,

and elytra dark piceous to black, appendages rather pale, testaceous,

outer segments of antenna not darker than basal segments; femora

slightly infuscated, and tibiae and tarsi paler. Pronotum sides convergent

without trace of sinuation; hind angles obtuse. Eye small, its short

diameter less than length of scape.

I have collected 77 uncifer only under rocks in damp places, usually near

seeps or small springs. It is apparently never abundant, with only one to

four specimens occurring in the same spot where large numbers of 77

luculentus or 77 valentinei are found.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) satanicus Barr

Barr 1962, Fig. 17. Type locality, Graveyard Fields, Haywood County,

North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Superficially similar to T. uncifer , this species is known only from the

west end of Graveyard Fields near Devils Courthouse, in the Great

Balsam Mountains. It has not been taken farther west in the Balsams, nor

on Pisgah Ledge to the east, despite careful search. Trechus satanicus is

notable for the comparatively great length of the aedeagus, 1.47-1.49 mm

long, despite the small body size (length 3. 2-3. 5 mm). Within the uncifer

group, T. uncifer and T. satanicus form a subgroup and may be vicar

species. The remaining species, T. aduncus and T. talequah , form another

subgroup. Although T. satanicus lies within the range of nominate aduncus ,

the two species have not been collected syntopically.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) aduncus aduncus Barr, new status

Fig. 32

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) aduncus Barr 1962:82. Type locality, Mt. Pisgah,

Haywood County, North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus aduncus is a medium-small (3. 1-3.9 mm) species with eye

diameter equal to or slightly less than the scape length, the pronotum

0.65-0.70 times as long as wide, pronotum apex and base widths sub-

equal, the sides not or very feebly sinuate just before the small, right or

slightly obtuse hind angles, the elytra with three inner striae clearly im-

pressed and one to three additional, feebly impressed outer striae. The

aedeagus is moderately arcuate to strongly arcuate, the apex more or less

produced and terminating in a hook. The two copulatory pieces, which

are normally obscured by the spiny armature of the internal sac, are sim-

ple, subequal, and have triangular apexes.

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Figs. 32-35. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view: 32. T. aduncus aduncus Barr, Bear-

pen Gap, North Carolina. 33. T. aduncus toxawayi, new subspecies, Toxaway Mountain,

North Carolina. 34. T. aduncus coweensis, new subspecies, Yellow Mountain, North Carolina.

35. T. aduncus howellae , new subspecies, Big Butt, North Carolina.

Nominate aduncus , which has only one elytral stria beyond the inner

three and an aedeagus as in Figure 32, occurs along the crest of the Great

Balsam Mountains, from Richland Balsam eastward to Mt. Pisgah, in

Haywood, Transylvania, Buncombe, and Jackson counties, North

Carolina. I have collected it at Mt. Pisgah, Buck Spring, Devils

Courthouse, Bearpen Gap, Spot Knob, and Richland Balsam, at eleva-

tions ranging between 4600 and 6000 feet (1400 and 1800 m). Its usual

habitat is wet moss in contact with a rock surface, and it is sympatric and

syntopic at various localities with other Trechus species: T. barberi, T. van-

dykei pisgahensis, T. schwarzi schwarzi , and T. rosenbergi. The type (and only

known) locality for T. satamcus lies near the middle of the range of T. a.

aduncus , but the two species have not yet been collected at the same spot.

Four subspecies of T. aduncus are recognized in the present paper. All

are probably extrinsically isolated populations which have diverged re-

cently, and they are treated as a polytypic species to emphasize their close

relationship. Intergrades between the subspecies have not been found,

and (except possibly for nominate aduncus and toxawayi ) are unlikely to be

found because of the existence of low gaps between the ranges of the

subspecies.

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Trechus (Microtrechus) aduncus toxawayi , new subspecies

Fig. 33

Etymology. — From Toxaway Mountain, the type locality.

Description. — Length 3.2-3. 3 mm. Elytra with three inner striae clearly

impressed, at best a trace of fourth stria; elytra rather slender, elongate-

oval. Aedeagus slender, 0.91-0.97 mm long, less arcuate than in the other

subspecies of T. aduncus , apex slender and produced more than in

nominate aduncus , terminating in reflexed hook.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH), two male and one female

paratypes, 0.25 mile (0.4 km) west of the summit of Toxaway Mountain,

elevation 4600 feet (1400 m), Jackson County, North Carolina, 24 June

1970, T. C. Barr, Jr., and T. C. Barr, III.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.25, head 0.62

long X 0.68 wide, pronotum 0.66 long X 0.89 wide, elytra 1.89 long X

1.31 wide, antenna 1.57 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality, at the end of a divide

(Tanasee Ridge) which extends 17 miles (27 km) south from the crest of

the Great Balsams. The ridge possibly permits continuity between T. a.

toxawayi and nominate aduncus , but no intermediate populations are

known.

Discussion. — The type series was collected from beneath a mat of

decaying leaves at the base of a low, sloping rock cliff, thus from very

typical T. aduncus microhabitat. Trechus barben was the only other species

of the genus taken on Toxaway Mountain.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) aduncus coweensis new subspecies

Fig. 34

Etymology. — From Cowee Mountains, where the type locality is

situated.

Description. — Length 3. 4-3. 8, mean 3.7 mm. Elytra with at least five

visible striae, inner three striae more deeply impressed. Aedeagus 0.84

mm long in paratype, median lobe thicker than in T. a. aduncus or T. a.

toxawayi , apex slender, produced, slightly recurved, terminal hook knob-

like.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH), three male and one female

paratypes, summit of Yellow Mountain, elevation 5000 feet (1525 m), 4

miles (6.4 km) southwest of Glenville, Macon-Jackson counties, North

Carolina, 28 June 1969, T. C. Barr.

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Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.84, head 0.84

long X 0.74 wide, pronotum 0.68 long X 1.02 wide, elytra 2.17 long X

1.55 wide, antenna 1.61 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality in the Cowee Moun-

tains, North Carolina.

Discussion. — The five specimens of T. a. coweensis were taken from

beneath wet leaves alongside the road to the fire tower, just below the

summit of Yellow Mountain at an approximate elevation of 5000 feet

(1525 m). A single T. barben was collected at the same spot. This sub-

species is geographically and morphologically a little closer to T. a.

howellae, from the Nantahala Mountains farther west, than to either of the

other two known subspecies of T. aduncus. The Cowees are separated from

the Great Balsams by the valley of the Tuckasegee River and from the

Nantahalas by the Little Tennessee River, thus there is every indication

of complete extrinsic isolation of this taxon.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) aduncus howellae , new subspecies

Fig. 35

Etymology. — Patronymic honoring Dr. Thelma Howell, director-

emeritus of the Highlands Biological Station.

Description. — Length 3. 3-3. 9, mean 3.7 mm. Elytra with at least five

visible striae, inner three striae more deeply impressed. Aedeagus 0.87-

0.88 mm long, very strongly and evenly arcuate in median lobe, which is

thick, as in T. a. coweensis ; apex more evenly attenuate and terminal hook

less reflexed than in T. a. aduncus , but not knob-like as in T. a. coweensis.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and seven paratypes, east face of

Big Butt, elevation 4800 feet (1460 m), Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory,

Macon County, North Carolina, 21 July 1970, T. C. Barr, Sr., T. C. Barr,

Jr., and T. C. Barr, III. Two paratypes, same locality, 26 July 1969, T. C.

Barr, Jr.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.58, head 0.84

long X 0.68 wide, pronotum 0.68 long X 0.96 wide, elytra 2.05 long X

1.43 wide, antenna 1.61 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality, in a research area

maintained by the United States Forest Service, in the Nantahala

Mountains.

Discussion. — The type series was collected from wet moss at the base of

a vertical cliff face beside the Appalachian Trail on the east face of Big

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Butt, a prominent peak in the Nantahala Mountains. The only other

Trechus species associated with T. a. howellae was T. barben , a pair of which

was also taken at the Big Butt site.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) talequah Barr

Barr 1962: 82, Fig.^20. Type locality, Haw Knob, Monroe County, Ten-

nessee; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus talequah is a Unicoi Mountains vicar species to T. aduncus.

Morphologically and geographically it is much farther removed from the

subspecies of T . aduncus than they are from each other. It is smaller and

flatter than T. aduncus , has deeply impressed elytral striae and a shorter

apical groove. The aedeagus is shorter and straighter, but its form

nevertheless suggests a close affinity with T. aduncus. The species coexists

at Haw Knob (type locality) with T. luculentus unicoi and on Haoe Lead,

Graham County, North Carolina, with T. haoe. Females and undissected

males are easily separated from T. haoe by the depressed form and deep

elytral striae.

nebulosus group

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) nebulosus Barr

Barr 1962: 86, Fig. 21. Type locality, Mt. Kephart, Sevier County, Ten-

nessee, and Swain County, North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus nebulosus is a species of medium size (3. 3-4.0 mm) with large

eyes, the sides of the pronotum not sinuate, and the hind angles obtuse

and slightly reflexed. It is abundant beneath wet, fluffy moss which car-

pets north-facing cliffs along the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains

from Clingmans Dome to Mt. Guyot, including the Mt. LeConte spur. In

this region it coexists with three smaller species of Trechus (T. barben, T.

bowlingi, T. uncifer) and with four other species of the nebulosus group ( T . 1.

luculentus, T. valentinei, T. novaculosus , and T. verus). The only one of these

species in the same size range and also having large eyes is T. luculentus ,

but in that species the sides of the pronotum are distinctly sinuate before

the hind angles. Males of T. nebulosus are always easily determined if the

aedeagus protrudes or is removed, because the tip of the right copulatory

piece is large and twisted into the shape of a bird’s head.

The lowest elevation at which I have collected T. nebulosus is about 4600

feet (1400 m) from mossy boulders along Ramsay Prong, above the

Cascades, in Sevier County, Tennessee, on the north side of the Smokies.

At higher elevations it is the most common of the larger species in the

moss carpet assemblage.

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Trechus ( Microtrechus) balsamensis Barr

Barr 1962:87, Fig. 24. Type locality, Water Rock Knob, Haywood-

Jackson counties, North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

This species is known only from the type locality, at an elevation of

6200 feet (1900 m) in the Plott Balsam Mountains. It occurs beneath

moss carpets and in spruce-fir needle duff at the base of low cliffs on the

north face of Water Rock Knob, in spruce-fir forest. It is syntopic with 77

rosenbergi and 77 barben at the type locality. Both 77 uncifer and 77 subtilis

have been taken in the Plott Balsams, but not at the Water Rock Knob

locality.

Trechus balsamensis resembles T. nebulosus in habitus and habitat select-

ed. It is characterized by large eyes, pronotum sides feebly sinuate only in

basal 0.05, hind angles small and approximately right, very feebly im-

pressed elytral striae, only the inner two or three of which are present;

aedeagus 0.93-1.05 mm long, of the same size and shape as that of T.

nebulosus , but apex much broader in dorsal view, the right piece scoop-

shaped, much larger than the left and without an apical twist.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) valentinei, new species

Figs. 11, 36

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) verus: Barr 1962 (in part).

Etymology. — Patronymic honoring Dr. J. Manson Valentine for his

early studies of North American trechines.

Diagnosis. — Distinguished from other species of the nebulosus group by

small eyes, broad pronotum base with acute hind angles, pale coloration;

aedeagal apex attenuate and produced, finely knobbed, twisted to left;

parameres broad and non-styliform.

Description. — Length 3. 6-3. 9, mean 3.7 mm. Piceous, more or less pale,

shining, form moderately robust and subconvex. Head slightly longer

than wide; labrum shallowly emarginate; eyes small, their diameter 0.7

scape length; antenna about 0.45 body length. Pronotum three-fourths as

long as wide, conspicuously transverse; apex 0.9 times as wide as base

and only 0.7 maximum width, which occurs in apical third; margins con-

vergent behind, not sinuous; hind angles small, sharp, acute, laterally

produced, base slightly lobed; basal foveae large and deep. Elytra 0.4

longer than wide, disc subconvex, usually with five longitudinal striae,

4th and 5th more shallowly impressed; apical groove short, joining 5th

stria a short distance anterior to anterior apical puncture; scutellar stria

very short, obsolescent; anterior discal at level of fourth umbilicate.

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Aedeagus 0.92-1.02, mean 0.97 mm long; thick, strongly arcuate, basal

keel strong, apex attenuate, produced, curved to left, finely knobbed;

copulatory pieces exserting to right, right piece much larger, heavily

sclerotized, enfolding smaller left piece; internal sac armed with medial

band of dense, slender spines; parameres broad, non-styliform (Fig.

36A), in left lateral view, with seta-bearing surfaces peculiarly elongate,

obliquely truncate; usually only three setae on apex of each paramere,

rarely four.

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Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 12 paratypes, Appalachian

Trail near summit of Mt. Kephart, Sevier County, Tennessee, Great

Smoky Mountains National Park, altitude approximately 6000 feet (1800

m), 1 July 1960, T. C. Barr, M. C. Bowling, Joyce and R. T. Bell.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.80, head 0.78

long X 0.71 wide, pronotum 0.78 long X 1.02 wide, elytra 2.23 long X

1.61 wide, antenna 1.74 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the central Great Smoky Mountains of

Tennessee and North Carolina, from about 3500 to 6000 feet (1070 to

1830 m) in elevation.

Discussion. — In my earlier paper (Barr 1962) T. valentinei was confused

with T. verus, another pale species with small eyes. The older records cited

for 77 verus at Clingmans Dome, Sugarland Mountain, and Mt. Kephart

(Barr 1962:82) are incorrect and apply to T. valentinei. True T. verus is

known only from Mt. Sterling, Cataloochee Balsam, and Old Black, in

the eastern end of the Smokies.

Trechus valentinei is an inhabitant of the high spruce-fir forests of the

Great Smokies, where it occurs under rocks beside streams and springs

and in shallow ravines, often in company with the more abundant T. 1.

luculentus and occasionally with a rare specimen of T. uncifer or T.

novaculosus. In addition to the type locality I have taken this species on Mt.

LeConte, near the summit; Clingmans Dome, near the summit; Mt.

Collins, near the summit; Sugarland Mountain, near its junction with the

main crest of the Smokies. It can be readily distinguished from sympatric

species of Trechus by the small eyes and paler color (T. verus , also pale with

small eyes, is apparently allopatric), the broad pronotum base and acute

hind angles, and the slender, produced, sinistrally twisted aedeagal apex

(often visible without dissection). The non-styliform parameres are ex-

ceptional, duplicated in no other trechine species known to me (although

rather different non-styliform parameres occur in Italian and Yugoslavian

species of Orotrechus Muller).

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Figs. 36-39. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view (except 36A): 36. T. valentinei, new

species, Mt. LeConte, Tennessee. 36A. T. valentinei , ventral view, Ramsay Cascades, Ten-

nessee. 37. T. verus Barr, Mt. Sterling, North Carolina. 38. T. stupkai, new species, Ramsay

Prong, Tennessee. 39. T. luculentus luculentus Barr, Clingmans Dome, North Carolina-

Tennessee.

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Trechus ( Microtrechus) verus Barr

Fig. 37

Barr 1962:81. Type locality, Mt. Sterling, Haywood County, North

Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

When describing T. verus I placed it in the uncifer group, where it is

readily distinguished by its large size and the absence of heavy, scaly ar-

mature on the internal sac. Both characters, so highly diagnostic in the

uncifer group, are not at all out of the ordinary in the nebulosus group,

where it more properly belongs alongside the closely similar species T.

valentinei , with which I had earlier confused it. True T. verus is confined to

the eastern end of the Smokies in Haywood County, North Carolina, and

Cocke County, Tennessee, where it has been taken on Mt. Sterling, Old

Black, and Cataloochee Balsam. Like T. valentinei , which it resembles, T.

verus has small eyes and pale coloration and commonly occurs beneath

rocks in wet places. The aedeagus of T. verus is more slender than that of

T. valentinei , the apex is more conspicuously reflexed and not twisted to

the left, and the parameres are styliform.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) stupkai , new species

Figs. 12, 38

Etymology. — Patronymic honoring Mr. Arthur Stupka, former Park

Naturalist and Research Biologist, National Park Service.

Diagnosis. — Eye diameter less than scape length; pronotum with apex

and base widths subequal, sides briefly sinuate before small, right, hind

angles; aedeagal apex briefly produced straight back, truncate at tip.

Description. — Length of unique holotype 3.3 mm. Form moderately

robust and subconvex; dark piceous, appendages all pale. Head one

fourth longer than wide; labrum evenly emarginate; eye diameter less

than length of scape. Pronotum three fourths as long as wide, apex and

base subequal, about 0.7 greatest width, which occurs in apical third;

sides rounded apical two thirds, then convergent, shallowly but distinctly

sinuate before small, about right, hind angles. Elytra 1.4 times longer

than wide, oval, subconvex, inner two striae moderately impressed, third

feebly impressed, fourth stria present only as evanescent trace; apical

groove wide and short, ending slightly in advance of anterior apical

puncture. Aedeagus of holotype 0.78 mm, basal bulb large and bent at

right angles to median lobe, apex rather abruptly produced straight back

and truncate with terminal button; copulatory pieces elongate-lobulate,

left three fourths as long as right, internal sac weakly armed with small,

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indistinct scales; parameres slender and elongate, apexes with four setae

each and not obliquely truncate as in T. valentinei.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH), a unique, in mossy rocks at

edge of Ramsay Prong, about 150 yards (135 m) above Ramsay

Cascades, elevation 4600 feet (1400 m), Sevier County, Tennessee, in

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 25 May 1969, T. C. Barr.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 3.29, head 0.74

long X 0.60 wide, pronotum 0.62 long X 0.83 wide, elytra 1.85 long X

1.28 wide, antenna 1.39 long, aedeagus 0.78 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality.

Discussion. — Efforts to obtain additional specimens of this distinctive

species have been unsuccessful. Trechus nebulosus, T. valentinei , and T.

bowlingi were collected in the same microenvironment along Ramsay

Prong, but even these otherwise common species are relatively rare at the

site.

Trechus (Microtrechus) novaculosus Barr

Fig. 44

Barr 1962:89, Fig. 27. Type locality, Clingmans Dome, Sevier County,

Tennessee; type deposited in USNM.

This large species, confined to the spruce-fir forests of the central Great

Smoky Mountains, is the largest species of Trechus in the Smokies. The

usual size range in the vicinity of Clingmans Dome is 4.4-4. 8, mean 4.6

mm, but J. Manson Valentine took three very large specimens, fully 5.5

mm long, on Mt. FeConte in May 1934. Seventeen specimens from Mt.

Kephart and along Anakeesta Ridge, which connects Mt. FeConte with

the main crest of the Smokies, are intermediate in length, 5. 1-5.5, mean

5.2 mm; these beetles, which I collected in August 1975, occurred several

inches below the surface of wet scree piles along the trails.

The aedeagus of Clingmans Dome area specimens, 1.22-1.24 mm long,

is smaller than the 1.23-1.32 mm length range seen in the Mt. FeConte-

Anakeesta Ridge material, but the basic pattern is identical: rather

strongly arcuate in lateral view, the median lobe sharply bent near the

middle and produced and attenuate at the apex; in dorsal view the apex is

simple and broadly spatulate. The copulatory sclerites are simple,

spatulate, quite elongate and narrow, almost razor-like in shape.

From other species of the nebulosus group in the Smokies, T. novaculosus

is readily distinguished by large size, small eyes, convergent (i.e., non-

sinuate) pronotum sides, and large, obtuse hind angles. I found it only

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under and among rocks in wet places near seeps and springs at altitudes

above 5500 feet (1675 m). In such microhabitats it is often associated with

77 valentinei, which was always more abundant, and rarely with 77 uncifer.

The available specimens suggest a possible geographic cline in size, with

total length increasing from Clingmans Dome along the crest to Mt.

Kephart, then along the Boulevard across Anakeesta Ridge to Mt.

LeConte. In the past three summers (1976, 1977, 1978) I have attempted

to find intermediate populations (e.g., near Newfound Gap) but have

been unable to do so. If the species is actually restricted to the very high

elevations where it has thus far been taken, then one is faced with the

alternative to a cline, that there are two genetically isolated populations

less than 10 miles (16 km) apart. The only specimens known thus far from

Mt. LeConte are those of Valentine, now in my private collection together

with the series from Mt. Kephart and Anakeesta Ridge. In addition to

Clingmans Dome the species has been taken on Mt. Buckley, Mt. Collins,

and along the trail between Clingmans Dome and Andrews Bald; all

specimens from these four localities fall into the 4.4-4. 8 mm size range.

Trechus (Microtrechus) luculentus luculentus Barr, new status

Figs. 13, 39

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) luculentus Barr 1962:88. Type locality, Clingmans

Dome, Swain County, North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus luculentus s. lat. is characterized by large eyes, their diameter

equal to or greater than the length of the scape, and distinctly sinuate

sides of the pronotum. The apex of the aedeagus is not produced; the dor-

sal (right?) copulatory sclerite is large and scoop-shaped, and the ventral

(left?) sclerite is a small, elongate-triangular spicule. Since collection of

the type series in 1960, I have obtained specimens of T. luculentus from

many other localities in the Great Smoky, Unicoi, and Nantahala moun-

tains. Populations in the Unicois and Nantahalas differ subspecifically

from Smoky Mountain T. luculentus. The nominate race is distinguished

from the other subspecies by the combination of smaller hind angles of

the pronotum, usually five longitudinal elytral striae, and the small

aedeagus (length 0.63-0.73 mm).

In the central Smokies, T. 1. luculentus has proven to be widely dis-

tributed altitudinally, occurring under rocks or debris beside seeps and

springs or near water in little ravines. Near the summit of Clingmans

Dome it is found under rocks in little wet ravines and under broken drain

tiles near the septic disposal field. Along Roaring Fork and in Greenbrier

Cove it was taken from beneath leaves and sticks beside small tributary

streams at elevations of 3000 feet (915 m) and 2900 feet (885 m), respec-

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tively. A single specimen was found on Fish Camp Prong under moss car-

peting a low ledge at an elevation of 2200 feet (670 m). On West Prong of

Little Pigeon River (4000 feet) (1200 m) it occurred under rocks at the

edge of the stream, with 77 valentinei and Bembidion carolinense Casey. At

the south base of the Smokies (Swain County, North Carolina) 77

luculentus was extracted from leaves and wet gravels at 2250 feet (685 m),

beside a small tributary stream crossing the Deep Creek Trail. A single

female was collected on Kephart Prong under similar circumstances, at

an elevation of 3350 feet (1020 m). These collecting data have been given

in some detail to demonstrate that 77 luculentus is by no means restricted

to higher elevations, but should be able to bridge the low gaps between

mountain ranges. A limited amount of gene flow between nominate

luculentus and the other two subspecies is thus a reasonable proposition,

although intergrading populations have not yet been discovered.

Wherever it coexists syntopically with 77 valentinei, T. luculentus is

always two to three times more abundant. It occasionally is taken

together with 77 barben and 77 bowhngi , both conspicuously smaller

species, and rarely with 77 uncifer and 77 novaculosus at higher elevations.

In the central Smokies the only other large species of Trechus with large

eyes is 77 nebulosus , an inhabitant of wet, fluffy moss carpets (consequent-

ly almost never syntopic with 77 luculentus ); in 77 nebulosus the sides of the

pronotum are simply convergent to the base, and males are readily deter-

mined by the distinctive shape of the apex of the dorsal copulatory piece

which often protrudes from the apical orifice of the aedeagus.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) luculentus umcoi, new subspecies

Figs. 14, 40, 41

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) luculentus: Barr 1962:88 (in part).

Etymology. — From Unicoi Mountains, where the type locality is

situated.

Description. — Length 4. 3-4. 5, mean 4.4 mm. Differs from other sub-

species of T. luculentus in more prominently sinuous pronotum sides,

which are subparallel in basal 0.12-0.15; more prominent, acute, hind

angles of pronotum; more extensive longitudinal striation of elytra, with

all striae usually present, although 5th through 8th progressively

shallower; and larger aedeagus, 0.95-1.04, mean 1.00 mm long.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 22 paratypes, Stratton

Meadows, elevation 4900 feet (1494 m), Monroe County, Tennessee, and

Graham County, North Carolina, 30 August 1964, T. C. Barr.

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Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 4.48, head 1.00

long X 0.83 wide, pronotum 0.89 long X 1.19 wide, elytra 2.54 long X

1.89 wide, antenna 1.68 long.

Distribution. — In addition to the type series, I have seen specimens from

the following localities. TENNESSEE: Monroe County. — Sugar Cove

Creek, elevation 3000 feet (900 m) (T. C. Barr, 1964); Laurel Top, near

Big Junction, elevation 5200 feet (1585 m) (T. C. Barr, 1960); Haw

Knob, elevation 5400 feet (1645 m) (T. C. Barr, 1960). NORTH

CAROLINA-: Graham County. — Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, elevation

3000 feet (900 m) (J. M. Valentine, 1950-51); Bemis Lumber Company

Camp (J. M. Valentine, 1951); Johns Knob, near Stratton. Meadows,

elevation 4800 feet (1465 m) (T. C. Barr, 1971). All localities are in the

Unicoi Mountains, and specimens are at present in my private collection.

Discussion. — Previously (Barr 1962: 88) I noted the occurrence of this

subspecies in the Unicoi Mountains but did not name it because insuf-

ficient specimens were available. I have now examined 55 specimens from

the seven stated localities. The subspecies has the same microhabitat

preferences of nominate luculentus and is prevalent beneath rocks and moss

in wet ravines and near seeps and springs.

Figs. 40-43. Aedeagi of Trechus species, left lateral view (except 41): 40. T. luculentus unicoi,

new subspecies, Stratton Meadows, North Carolina-Tennessee. 41. T. luculentus unicoi, apex,

dorsal view. 42. T. luculentus wayahensis, new subspecies, Dirty John Creek, North Carolina.

43. T. nantahalae, new species, Burningtown Bald, North Carolina.

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Trechus (Microtrechus) luculentus wayahensis , new subspecies

Figs. 15, 42

Etymology. — From Wayah Bald, a prominent topographic feature near

the type locality.

Description. — Length 3. 9-4.4, mean 4.1 mm. Differs from T. 1. luculentus

in having only four elytral striae and larger aedeagus, 0.84-0.95 mm long;

differs from T. 1. umcoi in having less prominent hind angles of pronotum,

only four elytral striae, and smaller aedeagus.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 30 paratypes, ravine at

head of Dirty John Creek, southwest slope of Winespring Bald (near

Wayah Bald), elevation 4900 feet (1500 m), Macon County, North

Carolina, 3 July 1969, T. C. Barr.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 4.42, head 1.15

long X 0.87 wide, pronotum 0.84 long X 1.15 wide, elytra 2.48 long X

1.98 wide, antenna 2.11 long.

Distribution. — In addition to the type locality, this subspecies is known

from two other sites in Macon County, North Carolina: Berties Falls,

near Wayah Bald, elevation 4000 feet (1200 m) ; and Tusquitee Bald, near

the Macon-Clay county line, elevation 4000 feet (1200 m). Tusquitee

Bald, part of the Tusquitee/Valley River mountains, is 7 miles (11.3 km)

west of Wayah Bald across the Nantahala River valley.

Discussion. — The occurrence of this subspecies in the Nantahala Moun-

tains was first brought to my attention through the kindness of Dr. J.

Manson Valentine, who gave me three females he had collected at Bertie

Falls and Dirty John Creek in 1950. A single large female Trechus

specimen which I collected on Tusquitee Bald in 1960 was earlier referred

tentatively to T. schwarzi (Barr 1962:75), but this specimen properly

belongs with T. luculentus wayahensis. Two other species of Trechus, T.

barben and T. tusquitee , have been collected syntopically with T. wayahensis ,

but T. aduncus howellae and T. nantahalae, which also occur in the Nan-

tahalas, have not. Trechus nantahalae is readily distinguished from T.

luculentus by the smaller eyes, pale color, and obtuse hind angles of the

pronotum; the other three species are conspicuously smaller.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) rosenbergi Barr

Barr 1962: 89, Fig. 26. Type locality, Water Rock Knob, Haywood and

Jackson counties, North Carolina; type deposited in USNM.

Trechus rosenbergi is a large (4. 5-5.0 mm) species, comparable in size

only to T. carolinae (Black Mountains) and T. novaculosus (central

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Smokies). It is known from only two localities: Water Rock Knob, in the

Plott Balsam Mountains, and Richland Balsam, Haywood County,

North Carolina, in the Great Balsam Mountains. At both collecting sites

it was taken deep in the mat of spruce-fir needles piled up against wet,

vertical rock faces. It is easily distinguished from the other species of

Trechus with which it is sympatric (77 aduncus, T. balsamensis, T. barben, T.

subtilis, T. vandykei) by size alone.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) tuckaleechee Barr

Fig. 16

Barr 1962:86, Fig. 22. Type locality, Tuckaleechee Caverns, Blount

County, Tennessee; type deposited in USNM.

This species is known only from Tuckaleechee Caverns near Town-

send, Tennessee, at the north side of the Great Smoky Mountains. It is

distinguished from other members of the nebulosus group by small eyes,

sinuate sides of the pronotum, hind angles sharp and nearly right, elytra

with five clearly impressed striae and short apical groove, and the apex of

the aedeagus broad, finely reflexed at the very tip. Morphologically it ap-

pears to be closest to T. tennesseensis and T. nantahalae.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) tennesseensis tennesseensis Barr

Barr 1962:87, Fig. 23. Type locality, Berry Cave, Roane County, Ten-

nessee; type deposited in USNM.

This taxon is at present known from a single locality in the floor of

the Appalachian valley approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of the

Great Smoky Mountains. Berry Cave is located a quarter of a mile (0.4

km) west of the Tennessee River (mile 578.4) near Wright Bend, 0.15

mile (0.24 km) west of Tennessee Route 72, at an elevation of 840 feet

(255 m). Trechus t. tennesseensis resembles T. tuckaleechee , but the hind

angles of the pronotum are sharp and acute, and the aedeagus is much

larger. Neither T. tuckaleechee nor T. tennesseensis exhibit any regressive

modifications that would restrict them to cave habitats. Presumably

they are both relics of species that were more widely distributed during

glacial maxima.

Trechus ( Microtrechus ) tennesseensis tauricus Barr

Barr 1962: 87. Type locality, Bull Cave, Blount County, Tennessee; type

deposited in USNM.

This subspecies, known only from the sinkhole at the entrance to Bull

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Cave, Blount County, Tennessee, at the edge of Great Smoky Mountains

National Park (below the Rich Mountain Road, elevation 1840 feet

[560m]), differs from nominate T. tennesseensis in the absence of internal

clypeal grooves and outer elytral striae. The two taxa treated as polytypic

T. tennesseensis are probably quite isolated, at least extrinsically, at the

present time, but the morphological differences between them are so

slight that I consider them relatively recent (post-Wisconsin?) relics of a

previously more widely distributed species.

Trechus ( Microtrechus) nantahalae , new species

Figs. 17, 43, 45

Etymology. — From Cherokee nantahala , geographic name for the moun-

tain range in which the type locality occurs.

Diagnosis. — Resembles T. tennesseensis in small eyes, pale coloration,

sinuate sides of pronotum, and slender aedeagal apex; differs in obtuse

hind angles of pronotum, shorter apical recurrent groove, smaller

aedeagus, and knobbed right copulatory piece.

Description. — Length 4. 2-4. 4, mean 4.2 mm. Reddish piceous, shining;

microsculpure obsolete on central elytral disc; form robust and subcon-

vex. Head a little wider than long; labrum shallowly and singly

emarginate; frontal grooves broad and deep; eyes small and subconvex,

their diameter (about 0.15 mm) less than scape length; antenna about

0.45 body length. Pronotum 0.3 wider than long; apex and base subequal

in width and about 0.7 maximum width; widest in apical third; sides ar-

cuate, sinuous in basal sixth, hind angles small, sharp, slightly elevated,

and obtuse; basal foveae broad and deep, separated from marginal gutter

by low ridge; base oblique behind hind angles, thus slightly lobed. Elytra

0.75 as wide as long; inner three longitudinal striae moderately deep, in-

ner intervals subconvex, 4th and 5th striae shallow, outer striae obsolete;

apical recurrent groove attaining 5th stria a short distance in advance of

anterior apical puncture; scutellar stria very short, obsolescent; anterior

discal puncture slightly behind level of 4th umbilicate puncture.

Aedeagus of paratype 0.94 mm long, similar to that of T. tennesseensis but a

little shorter, apex slender in dorsal view; dorsal (right) copulatory piece

with apex twisted into knob. Female unknown.

Type series. — Holotype male (AMNH) and 4 male paratypes, 0.4 mile

(0.6 km) northwest of Burningtown Gap on the southwest slope of Burn-

ingtown Bald, at a seep along the Appalachian Trail, elevation 4300 feet

(1300 m), Macon County, North Carolina, 5 July 1969, T. C. Barr.

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Figs. 44-45. Trechus species, habitus sketch: 44. T. novaculosus Barr, large form (5.5 mm),

Mt. LeConte, Tennessee. 45. T. nantahalae, new species (4.3 mm), Burningtown Bald, North

Carolina.

Measurements (in mm). — Holotype male: total length 4.22, head 0.93

long X 0.81 wide, pronotum 0.84 long X 1.09 wide, elytra 2.45 long X

1.86 wide, antenna 1.92 long.

Distribution. — Known only from the type locality in the northern Nan-

tahala Mountains, southwestern North Carolina.

Discussion. — Trechus nantahalae is readily distinguished from the other

species of Trechus with which it is sympatric in the Nantahalas (T. barben,

T. aduncus howellae, T. luculentus wayahensis, T. tusquitee) by the small eyes,

pale coloration, and peculiarly obtuse hind angles of the pronotum which

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result in a lobed base. The five specimens of the type series, all males,

were collected from beneath stones in wet mud. No other Trechus species

were found in the immediate vicinity, nor has T. nantahalae yet been found

elsewhere in the Nantahala Mountains. In fact, the limited collections

thus far made of Trechus in the Nantahala and Tusquitee/Valley River

mountains suggest that the somewhat lower elevations along the crest and

the absence of spruce-fir forest provide a restricted number of suitable

microhabitats in contrast to the Great Smokies, Great Balsams, and Plott

Balsams. Of the four endemic taxa known at the present time only T.

luculentus wayahensis and T. tusquitee have been taken together (on Tus-

quitee Bald), in contrast to many syntopic species pairs known from the

other ranges mentioned.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — This study was supported in part by

grants from the National Science Foundation (G-12968 and GB-5521 to

me, and through a grant-in-aid from the Highlands Biological Station,

GB-2496), the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund, and the American

Philosophical Society (Penrose Fund No. 6180).

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in the southern Appalachians. Coleopt. Bull. 76:65-92.

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palachians. pp 67-92 in Holt, Perry C. (ed.). The distributional history of the

biota of the southern Appalachians, Part I: Invertebrates. Res. Div. Monogr.

1, Va. Polytech. Inst., Blacksburg. 295 pp.

Casey, Thomas L. 1918. Observations on the American Pogoninae, including

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caster, Pennsylvania.

Emerson, Alfred E. 1945. Taxonomic categories and population genetics. En-

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Horn, George H. 1883. Miscellaneous notes and short studies of North American

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Jeannel, Rene. 1927. Monographic des Trechinae. Morphologie comparee et dis-

tribution geographique d’un groupe de Coleopteres (2e livraison). L’Abeille

33: 1-592. "

1931. Revision des Trechinae de l’Amerique du Nord. Arch Zool. exp.

gen., 77:403-499.

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Accepted 22 August 1979

1

Cretaceous Selachians from the Peedee Formation

(Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina1

Gerard R. Case

129 Carlton Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey 07306

ABSTRACT. — A shark-tooth fauna of Late Cretaceous (Navarroan,

Late Maestrichtian) age from the uppermost member of the Peedee For-

mation was recovered from three sites in southern Duplin County,

North Carolina. Species represented include Hybodus sp. 1; Squalicorax

kaupi and S. pnstodontus; the goblin shark Scapanorhynchus texanus;

Odontaspis sp.; Cretolamna appendiculata lata; C. biaunculata (the first New

World record of this species) and C. serrata; Plicatolamna cf. P. arcuata\ the

sawfish Ischyrhiza mira; and the ray Rhomb odus cf. R. binkhorsti. This

Peedee assemblage adds significantly to the still-limited roster of Late

Maestrichtian shark faunas of the world.

INTRODUCTION

The Peedee Formation is an Upper Cretaceous deposit of neritic

marine origin (Heron and Wheeler 1964) which spans the Tayloran and

Navarroan provincial stages (Brouwers and Hazel 1978), equivalent to

the Late Campanian and the entire Maestrichtian stages of Europe. At

the present time the deposit’s various phases of regression and deposition

are not named as members. This paper deals with the selachian fauna of

an “uppermost” member of the Peedee that is Navarroan (Late

Maestrichtian) in age. As shown below, the shark species of this member

correspond to those known Late Maestrichtian faunas found elsewhere in

the United States and other parts of the world.

The selachian fauna described here is distinct from that of the Black

Creek Formation (Miller 1967, 1968; Baird and Horner 1979), which un-

derlies the Peedee in North Carolina. A transition of several of the species

from the Black Creek up into the Peedee is normal, but other species ap-

pear in the Peedee that were not present in the Black Creek.

The marine vertebrate fauna of the Maestrichtian in North America is

poorly known. I have under study additional faunas of that age from

widely separated localities (in Maryland and Texas) that should, when

described, make our knowledge of the Late Maestrichtian much clearer.

One of these faunas, like that of the Peedee described here, contains only

megascopic species; the other contains a microfauna as well. Using this

undescribed material for comparison I endeavor here to place on record

Additions to the fossil vertebrate fauna of North Carolina, Part I.

Brimleyana No. 2: 77-89. November 1979

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for the first time a Late Maestrichtian/Navarroan shark fauna (incom-

plete as it is) from the state of North Carolina.

LOCALITIES

The sites from which the specimens in this report were recovered are all

in southern Duplin County. Site 1, by far the most productive, is a borrow

pit from which the county maintenance department extracts limestone for

use as road fill. It is located on County Road 1148 approximately 3.2 km

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due east of its junction with the north-south U.S. Highway 117, about 2.4

km south of Rosehill. Its position is approximately 8.8 km diagonally

northwest of the Angola Bay Game Preserve and the Northwest Branch of

the Cape Fear River, at 34°52,30’' north latitude and 77°90,0” west

longitude. Fossils were first discovered at this locality by Mr. John C.

Golden, Jr., of North Charleston, South Carolina.

At Site 1 the Peedee Formation is exposed at a depth of approximately

4.5 to 6.1 m and consists of limestone with little traces of glauconite. The

lack of invertebrate steinkerns and foramnifera and the surficial wear on

the shark teeth strongly suggest that the fossils were reworked after

original deposition elsewhere and redeposited at their present location.

Unconformably underlying the Peedee is the Black Creek Formation,

which has yielded no fauna at Site 1 simply because the borrow pit has

not yet been dug deep enough. The overburden is a mixture of Castle

Hayne limestone (Claibornian, Upper Middle Eocene), Trent Marl

(Aquitanian, Early Miocene) and Duplin Marl (= Yorktown, Sahelian,

Late Miocene or more likely Early Pliocene) (Berry 1947; Richards 1950;

Cooke et al. 1943; Baum and Wheeler 1977). The shark faunas of the

Castle Hayne, Trent, and Duplin Marls at this locality will be described

in subsequent parts of this series.

Site 2 is the spoil heap of an irrigation pond alongside the Rosehill

Processing Plant (chicken Tenderers), approximately 2.4 km north of

Rosehill on U. S. Highway 117. Several species of the Peedee fauna are

quite common at this locality, although their condition is worn and

abraded, indicating reworking and subsequent redeposition. The over-

lying material at this site is also the Castle Hayne Limestone.

Site 3, the Superior Stone Quarry, is situated 3.2 km west of U. S.

Highway 117 at the Carroll intersection, approximately midway between

the towns of Warsaw and Magnolia. The predominant material recovered

from this now-defunct quarry is Castle Hayne Limestone with Late

Eocene shark teeth and echinoids. The underlying formation is the

Peedee, from which we obtained the same species as at Site 1. The ver-

tebrate remains also have been worn and abraded by wave action.

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SYSTEMATICS

Full synonymies for the species cited will be found in Cappetta and

Case (1975b) and Case (1978). The illustrated voucher specimens are

housed in the Museum of Natural History, Princeton University (PU);

additional specimens are in the author’s collection.

Class CHONDRICHTHYES

Subclass ELASMOBRANCHII

Clade HYBODONTIFORMES

Order SELACHII

Hybodus Agassiz, 1837

Hybodus sp. 1

Hybodus sp. 1 - Cappetta and Case, 1975:5, Fig. 2.

Material : — PU 22418, one lower lateral tooth lacking roots (Figs. 1-2).

Site 1.

Description : — An isolated central cusp showing little wear on the blade;

the root is missing as it is in most specimens. Plications on either side of

the blade, rising from the apron above the root separation to approx-

imately 1/5 the total height of the blade; plications more pronounced on

the labial face. The tooth faces inward and is slightly concave in lingual

aspect. It resembles a similarly preserved specimen from the Navesink

Formation (Middle Maestrichtian) of New Jersey (Cappetta and Case

1975b, Fig. 2), differing only in having a slight lateral apron.

Discussion : — Cappetta and Case described Hybodus sp. 1 on the basis of

incomplete cusps, with or without lateral cusplet traces. More recently

Case (1978) described as Hybodus montanensis a tooth from the Judith River

Formation (Campanian) of Montana, which shows strong, quite deep

plications occupying approximately 1/3 of the tooth cusps. This species

from the Western Interior is quite different from Hybodus sp. 1. The latter

will be named by Case on the basis of an almost complete specimen show-

ing a partial root and two lateral cusplets on one side, found in central

New Jersey in 1978.

Suborder ANACORACOIDEI

Family ANACORACIDAE

Squalicorax Whitley, 1939

Squalicorax kaupi (Agassiz)

Corax kaupi Agassiz, 1843:225, PI. 26a, Figs. 25-34; PI. 26, Figs. 4-8.

Material'. — PU 22419A, an upper antero-lateral tooth (Figs. 3-4), and

PU 22419B, a lower lateral tooth (Figs. 5-6); numerous additional teeth,

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anterior, lateral and posterior, from both upper and lower jaws. Sites 1

and 2.

Description: — Small-sized teeth, approximately 1 to 1.5 cm wide. The

teeth of Squalicorax kaupi are about 1/3 the size of those of Squalicorax

pristodontus . They show an indentation on the side of the blade directed

towards the commissure of the mouth, whereas the teeth of S. pristodontus

have a full, arcuate shape and no indentation of the blade. I assume that

the upper and lower teeth are quite similar, showing no heterodonty, so it

is difficult to be certain whether a given tooth comes from the upper or

lower jaw.

Squalicorax pristodontus (Agassiz)

Corax pristodontus Agassiz, 1843:224, PI. 26, Figs. 9-13.

Material : — PU 22420, a lower lateral tooth (Figs. 7-8). Site 1.

Description: — Teeth of fairly large size, averaging between 2 and 3 cm

wide. Large crescent-shaped blade with no indentation, as distinct from

S. kaupi. Roots, as with S. kaupi , are quite flattened, with or without an

apical foramen on the lingual face, and with or without fenestration or

multiple foramina on the upper portion of the root processes on the labial

face. Upper and lower teeth are similar, as with S. kaupi.

Discussion: — The teeth of S. pristodontus are quite distinctive. Although

some specimens have been recovered from formations as early as the Late

Campanian, the species is quite uncommon in pre-Maestrichtian out-

crops, and is by far more abundant in the Middle and Late Maestrichtian

stages of the Upper Cretaceous. Its geographic range is much like that of

S. kaupi. Squalicorax pristodontus is most abundant in the Middle Maestrich-

tian (Navesink Marl) of New Jersey, the Late Maestrichtian (Kemp Clay

Member, formerly the “Littig,” of the Navarro Group) in northeast and

central Texas, and the Late Maestrichtian (“ Couche trois” des phosphates) of

Morrocco, North Africa.

Clade EUSELACHIFORMES

Order EUSELACHII

Family MITSUKURINIDAE

Scapanorhynchus Woodward, 1889

Scapanorhynchus texanus (Roemer)

Lamna texana Roemer, 1852:29, PI. 1, Fig. 7.

Material: — PU 22421A, an upper lateral tooth (Figs. 9-10), and PU

22421 B, a lower anterior tooth (Figs. 11-12); about two dozen additional

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teeth, anterior, lateral and posterior, from both upper and lower jaws.

Sites 1 and 3.

Description. — Teeth of large size, averaging between 2 and 5 cm in

height from root tip to blade tip; upper and lower teeth are similar. The

anterior teeth of both jaws are elongate and sigmoidal, with or without

minute, sigmoidal lateral cusplets,with long striae on the lingual face of

the blade. The antero-lateral and lateral teeth are more flattened on their

labial and lingual faces and bear one or two lateral cusplets which differ

from those of the anterior teeth in being flattened and spade-like. Long

striae are seldom observed on the lingual face of the anterolateral, lateral,

or posterior teeth, but the beginning of a striation pattern can be observed

at the blade apron near the root on the labial face of well-preserved

specimens.

Discussion : — Scapanorhynchus texanus is a very common and ubiquitous

species in the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is most abundant in

the Late Campanian to Middle Maestrichtian of New Jersey and Texas,

and has recently been discovered in Late Campanian outcrops northeast

of Taroudannt, Morocco (Pierre Zennaro, pers. comm.).

Until recently the description of teeth from the various mouth positions

in Scapanorhynchus was quite haphazard, with numerous assignments to

various erroneous genera, causing quite a problem with synonymic

nomenclature in the literature. Capetta and Case (1975) compared the

fossil teeth of Scapanorhynchus with those in the jaws of the modern “goblin

shark,” Mitsukunna owstom. The teeth are basically the same, position for

position, except that many teeth of Mitsukunna are devoid of lateral ac-

cessory cusplets. Consequently Mitsukunna has been relegated to syn-

onomy and the living species should be cited as Scapanorhynchus owstom

(Jordan) (Bass et al. 1975:18). Now that the problem of differences be-

tween teeth from different positions has been cleared up, future authors

should be able to assign occurrences correctly to Scapanorhynchus and avoid

further synonymic confusion.

Scapanorhynchus texanus also occurs in the Black Creek Formation (Cam-

panian) at Phoebus Landing on the Cape Fear River, Bladen County,

North Carolina. The specimens, however, were mistakenly assigned to

the Tertiary genera Carchanas and Isurus by Miller (1967:223, Figs. 1-5).

Family ODONTASPIDAE

Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838

Odontaspis sp.

Material : — PU 22422, a lower antero-lateral tooth (Figs. 13-14); about

two dozen anterior and lateral teeth from both upper and lower jaws. Site 1.

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Figs. 1-26. Selachian teeth from the Peedee Formation of Site 1, Duplin County, North

Carolina, in labial and lingual views. Scale bar equals approximately 5 mm. 1-2, Hybodus sp.

1 (PU 22418); 3-4, Squalicorax kaupi, upper antero-lateral tooth (PU 224 19A); 5-6,

Squalicorax kaupi , lower lateral tooth (PU 2241 9B); 7-8, Squalicorax pnstodontus , lower lateral

tooth (PU 22420); 9-10, Scapanorhynchus texanus, upper lateral tooth (PU 22421A); 11-12,

Scapanorhynchus texanus , lower anterior tooth (PU 22421 B); 13-14, Odontaspis sp., lower

antero-lateral tooth (PU 22422); 15-16, Cretolamna appendiculata var. lata, upper lateral tooth

(PU 22423A); 17-18, Cretolamna appendiculata var. lata, lower anterior tooth (PU 22423B);

19-20, Cretolamna biaunculata, upper lateral tooth (PU 22424); 21-22, Cretolamna serrata,

lower antero-lateral tooth (PU 22425B); 23-24, Cretolamna serrata, upper lateral tooth (PU

22425A); 25-26, Plicatolamna cf. P. arcuata (PU 22426).

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Description : — Teeth comparable in size and superficial appearance to

those of the modern Odontaspis (Carcharias) taurus (Rafinesque). Erect cen-

tral blade with or without striae or plications upon either the lingual or

labial face; one or two lateral cusplets extending upward and outward

from the base of the blade near the root apron; roots robust in teeth of the

anterior and symphysial files, flattened in the lateral and posterior files.

Tooth cuspidate or sigmoidal depending upon its position in the jaw.

Discussion'. — Teeth of the Odontaspidae are quite difficult to sort and

separate, as the species are sometimes similar in characteristics. The

teeth from the Peedee Formation show no features of cusp design or root

structure that would serve to distinguish them from previously-known

species of Odontaspis , such as the Upper Cretaceous species 0. samhammen,

0. hardingi , and 0. holmdelensis described by Cappetta and Case from New

Jersey. Until more and better material becomes available, the North

Carolina teeth cannot be identified to species.

Family CRETOXYRHINIDAE

Cretolamna Glyckman, 1958

Cretolamna appendiculata lata (Agassiz)

Otodus latus Agassiz, 1843:271, PI. 32, Fig. 26.

Material'. — PU 22423A, an upper lateral tooth (Figs. 15-16), and PU

22423B, a lower anterior tooth (Figs. 17-18); two dozen anterior and

lateral teeth from both upper and lower jaws. Site 1.

Description : — Teeth as described in Cappetta and Case (1975b: 21).

The lower jaw teeth are more pointed and basically symmetrical, with

pinched roots, while the roots of the upper jaw teeth are more flattened

and their cusps are more squat. In the lateral to posterior files the blades

are more slanted towards the commissure. There are two constricted ac-

cessory cusps, triangular in shape (not sigmoidal as in the Odont-

aspidae), on the anterior lower teeth, while the accessory cusps on the up-

per teeth are much wider and flatter. Roots in the lingual aspect are with

or without an apical foramen, but all teeth lack a medial groove in that

area. On certain specimens, mostly lateral to posterior teeth, there are

vestiges of an additional and smaller accessory cusplet.

Discussion: — Cretolamna appendiculata lata is a most common species in

the Cretaceous of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, while it is rare in the Gulf

Coastal Plain (Texas in particular), and completely unknown in the

Western Interior where Plicatolamna takes its place as the dominant form.

It is common in the Maestrichtian of North Africa, especially in Morocco,

and is present but uncommon in European Cretaceous deposits. In the

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Cretaceous of New Jersey and Delaware C. a. lata ranks fourth in order of

abundance, after Scapanorhynchus texanus, Squalicorax (kaupi and

pristodontus ), and Plicatolamna arcuata.

Cretolamna biauriculata (Zittel in Wanner)

Otodus biauriculata (Zittel in MS) Wanner, 1902:148, PL XIX, Fig. 28.

Material : — PU 22424, an upper lateral tooth (Figs. 19-20); five other

teeth, anterior and lateral. Site 1.

Description : — The teeth are basically similar to those of C. a. lata but

differ conspicuously in bearing two divergent lateral cusps on either side

of the central cusp, the outer ones being the smaller. The roots are flat-

tened, with or without apical foramina, and lack a medial groove or

furrow such as is found in the Odontaspidae.

Discussion : — This is the first reported occurrence of C. biauriculata in the

New World. Its teeth are quite common in the Maestrichtian of Morocco,

a bit scarcer in Algeria and Tunisia, and quite rare in Israel, where Raab

(1963:27, PI. 1, Figs. 1-18) claims to recognize C. b. ?maroccana Aram-

bourg. It is extremely rare in European deposits.

Cretolamna serrata (Agassiz)

Otodus serratus Agassiz, 1838, PI. XXXII, Figs. 27-28

Material : — PU 22425A, an upper lateral tooth (Figs. 23-24), and PU

22425B, a lower antero-lateral tooth (Figs. 21-22); about two dozen other

teeth, anterior and lateral, from both upper and lower jaws. Site 1.

Description : — As described by Cappetta and Case (1975b), the typical

tooth has two lateral cusps on one side of the central cusp and one lateral

cusp on the other side. Otherwise the teeth are much like those of

Cretolamna appendiculata lata.

Discussion : — Teeth of C. serrata are found only in Late Maestrichtian

deposits. In North America the species ranges through the Atlantic and

Gulf Coastal Plains, but has not turned up in the Western Interior nor

west of the Rocky Mountains. It is quite common in North Africa

(Morocco).

Plicatolamna Herman, 1974

Plicatolamna cf. P. arcuata (Woodward)

Lamna arcuata Woodward, 1894:198, PI. VI, Fig. 10

Material : — PU 22426, a lower anterior tooth (Figs. 25-26). Site 1.

Description : — Tooth of average size, about 1 cm high and 8 mm max-

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imum width (although the right lateral cusp and a small portion of the

root are missing). It bears a sigmoidal lateral cusplet alongside a slender,

slightly sigmoidal central cusp.

Discussion : — The teeth of P. arcuata are quite common in beds of Late

Campanian to Middle Maesjxichtian age but quite uncommon in the

Late Maestrichtian. This specimen is not definitely identifiable as P.

arcuata , and its temporal occurrence is very late for that species.

Order BATOIDEA

Suborder GANOPRISTINIDEA

Family SCLERORHYNCHIDAE

Ischyrhiza Leidy, 1856

Ischyrhiza mira Leidy

Ischyrhiza mira Leidy, 1856:221.

Material : — PU 22427A-B, two rostral teeth (Figs. 27-30); three other

rostral teeth (no oral teeth). Site 1.

Description : — Rostral teeth of rather large size, ranging in length from

3.5 to 5.5 cm. No barb present on the lateral edge of the enameloid cusp

(as in Onchopristis) and no plications or striations on the enameloid faces.

The root base bears strongly rugose pleats which probably strengthened

the attachment to the rostral cartilage. Otherwise the rostral teeth are-

characteristically sclerorhynchoid.

Discussion : — Rostral teeth of the sawfish Ischyrhiza are common in Up-

per Cretaceous deposits of North America, especially in the range from

Late Campanian to Middle Maestrichtian. This genus is unknown out-

side the continental limits of the United States, for, as noted in previous

work (Case 1967), Sclerorhynchus replaces Ischyrhiza in the Upper

Cretaceous deposits of Europe and North Africa. Originally the rostral

teeth of Ischyrhiza were thought to be the oral teeth of a teleost fish (Leidy

1856; Fowler 1911) but were later identified as belonging to a primitive

sawfish that is known as a ganopristine because its denticles have a com-

bination of enameloid and osseous structure.

Suborder DASYATOIDEI

Family MYLIOBATIDAE

Rhombodus Dames, 1881

Rhombodus cf. R. binkhorsti Dames

Rhombodus binkhorsti Dames, 1881:1, Fig. 1.

Material : — PU 22428, a pavement tooth (Figs. 31-35); and a dozen ad-

ditional specimens. Sites 1, 2 and 3.

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Figs. 27-35. Batoid teeth from the Peedee Formation of Site 1, Duplin County, North

Carolina. Scale bar equals approximately 5 mm. 27-30, Ischyrhiza mu a , two rostral teeth in

dorsal and ventral views (PU 22427A-B); 31-35, Rhombodus cf. R. binkhorsti, pavement tooth

in occlusal, anterior, lateral, basal, and posterior views (PU 22428).

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Description : — Tooth-plates rhombic in outline, with short crowns con-

taining enameloid material and with large, bifurcated roots that comprise

approximately 2/3 of the total height. The crown has no rugose striation

on its occlusal surface (such as occurs in Myledaphus ), and its outer edge is

crimped or milled, no doubt to facilitate interlocking between adjacent

units in the tooth-pavement. Tooth-plates are of medium size, averaging

less than 1 cm in diameter.

Discussion : — Because of their worn state the teeth from the Peedee For-

mation cannot be definitely assigned to the species Rhombodus binkhorsti.

Despite its superficial similarity to Myledaphus bipartitus Cope, Rhombodus

appears to be more closely related to the myliobatid Hypolophus than to

the dasyatids, the skate family.

The isolated crushing teeth of Rhombodus are quite common in the Late

Maestrichtian and are found in all marine deposits of that age, especially

in Morocco, and in Texas, where they are second in number to the teeth

of Cretolamna s errata.

FAUNAL COMPARISONS

The Late Maestrichtian stage of the Upper Cretaceous system is a most

interesting period, and its vertebrate fauna is not very well known. Some

of the shark species persisted into the Paleocene while others became ex-

tinct.

Table 1, based on data from nine states, shows the stratigraphic dis-

tribution of the shark species known from the Peedee Formation of North

Carolina. This chart, of course, is not complete, but will require modifica-

tion as further discoveries are made. On the basis of current information

the shark species of the Peedee are characteristic of Late Maestrichtian

time although some are seen to occur as early as the Cenomanian.

Considering the Late Maestrichtian shark fauna as a whole, the follow-

ing forms are known to be of earlier origin: Heterodontus, Lonchidion,

Pseudocorax, Paranomotodon, Squalus, Ginglymo stoma, Brachaelurus , Mesiteia,

Rhinobatos, Sclerorhynchus, Ischyrhiza avomcola, Ischyrhiza mira, Ptychotrygon,

Cretorectolobus , and Protoplatyrhina. Appearing for the first time in the Late

Maestrichtian are Notorhynchus, Paleogaleus, Scyliorhinus, Dasyatis, Raja , and

Rhombodus , along with Cretolamna biauriculata and C. serrata. The only forms

that survived into the Paleocene are Odontaspis, Cretolamna appendiculata,

Rhombodus, Squalus, Ginglymo stoma, and Rhinobatos.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — I would like to thank Mr. & Mrs. John C.

Golden, Jr., of North Charleston, South Carolina for their assistance, es-

pecially their generosity in donating several of the specimens in this

study. Thanks go out to Mr. E. Dewey Ross of Mesic, North Carolina, for

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Table 1. Stratigraphic distribution of species in the United States Upper Cretaceous Formations*

*Data from Upper Cretaceous faunal assemblages from the following states: New Jersey; Maryland;

North Carolina; Alabama; Arkansas; Texas; Montana; Wyoming and California.

**Known species recovered from Rosehill, North Carolina.

Cen = Cenomanian San = Santonian

Tur = Turonian Camp = Campanian

Con = Coniacian Mas = Maestrichtian

his assistance in the field. My appreciation goes to Dr. Donald Baird,

Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton Univer-

sity, for his kindness in reading the original manuscript and offering

suggestions for the improvement of the paper. The excellent photography

of the figures is the work of Mr. Richard E. Grant of Dallas, Texas. Ap-

preciation is extended to Mr. Richard Hamilton, Rockaway, New York,

for his kind assistance on the art preparation for the figures and tables.

This work was supported in part by a grant from the Griffis Fund of the

American Littoral Society: GF-ALS-1812. Additional assistance came

from the Scott Fund of Princeton University.

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Freshwater Triclads (Turbellaria) of North America.

XII. Another New Cave Planarian from North Carolina,

Phagocata carolinensis n. sp.

Roman Kenk

m

Department of Invertebrate oology ,

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D. C. 20560

ABSTRACT. — Phagocata carolinesis n. sp. from One Bat Cave, Burke

County, North Carolina, is a slender, unpigmented species with two

small eyes and is characterized by its peculiar penial anatomy and by

the development of an enormous vagina with special histological dif-

ferentiation. It belongs to a group of closely related species of Phagocata

distributed in the Appalachian region.

Through the courtesy of Dr. Cato O. Holler, Jr. of Old Fort, North

Carolina, I received some specimens of a new species of Phagocata , collec-

ted in a cave in Burke County, North Carolina. Dr. Holler is with the

North Carolina Cave Survey and an investigator in the Biological Survey

of North Carolina Caves.

Phagocata carolinensis , new species

Type-material (deposited in the U. S. National Museum of Natural

History [USNM], Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). — Holo-

type, set of sagittal sections on 3 slides (USNM 58431); paratypes, sagit-

tal and horizontal sections of 2 specimens on 12 slides (USNM 58432-

58433).

External features (Figs. 1A, IB). — The species is unpigmented (white),

externally indistinguishable from Phagocata angusta Kenk (1977) or P.

holleri Kenk (1979). In gliding locomotion the body is very slender,

reaching up to 13 mm in length and about 1 mm in width. The truncate

head has a somewhat wavy frontal margin and bears on each side a

lateral projection, slightly more distinct than that of P. holleri. Posterior to

these projections the head narrows, forming a kind of neck. Behind the

neck the lateral body margins diverge again gradually to reach the max-

imum width, then run parallel for the greater part of the body length, to

converge again and to meet at the rather rounded posterior end.

The two small eyes are situated close together at a considerable dis-

tance behind the frontal margin of the head. The intestine reaches

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Fig. 1. Phagocata carolinensis. A, photograph of living animal, X7; B, outline drawing of liv-

ing animal, with indication of eyes, pharynx, and copulatory apparatus.

anteriorly to the level of the eyes. The pharnyx is rather long, about 1/5

body length, and its root is inserted at the beginning of the fourth fifth of

the body. The copulatory apparatus is visible in the living specimen as a

transparent area occupying the anterior half of the postpharyngeal

region.

Anatomy. — The two eyes are rather small, the diameters of their pig-

ment cups measuring 26-37 /im.

In the reproductive system, the two ovaries are situated behind the

second or third lateral branches of the anterior intestinal trunk. Each

ovary is equipped with a rather large, lobed parovarium, usually located

laterally to the ovary. There are, however, cell accumulations also an-

terior to the ovaries that histologically resemble parovaria without being

connected with either the ovaries or the true parovaria.

The numerous testes are essentially ventral, although at full maturity

individual testicular follicles may extend almost to the dorsal body wall.

They are arranged on either side of the body in a broad longitudinal zone

beginning some distance behind the ovaries and terminating at the level

of the pharyngeal root. In the region of the testes, the thin vas deferens or

sperm duct on each side runs along the medial side of the ventral nerve

cord, somewhat above the longitudinal layer of the ventral integumental

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Fig. 2. Phagocata carolinensis, semidiagrammatic view of copulatory apparatus in sagittal

sectiop. ac, common atrium; am , male atrium; b, copulatory bursa; bd , bursal duct; bp, penis

bulb; gp, gonopore; la, lamellae; m, mouth; ode, common oviduct; ph, pharyngeal pouch; pp,

penis papilla; va, vagina; vd, vas deferens.

muscles. In the region of the pharynx, the vasa deferentia expand to form

the tortuous false seminal vesicles or spermiductal vesicles, filled with

sperm, which proceed posteriorly toward the copulatory complex.

The copulatory apparatus (Fig. 2) is located immediately behind the

pharyngeal pouch {ph). The genital aperture or gonopore {gp) is situated

about midway between the mouth {m) and the posterior end of the body.

It leads through a short narrow duct into the common atrium {ac) which

opens anteriorly into the male atrium {am) and posteriorly into the vagina

{va) of the bursal duct. Both the male and common atria are lined with a

nucleate and ciliated cuboidal epithelium.

The penis consists of a rather voluminous bulb {bp), the musculature of

which is rather feeble and developed mainly near its periphery, and a

short, bluntly conical papilla {pp) extending into the male atrium. The

configuration of the penial lumen is quite unique. Three to five transverse

lamellae {la) originate from the dorsal and ventral walls, alternatingly

projecting downward and upward. Each lamella is attached to the lateral

walls of the penis, as can be seen in horizontal sections through the organ.

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Fig. 3. Photomicrographs of copulatory organs in sagittal section. A, Phagocata carolinensis,

X60; B, Phagocata holleri, X127.

This arrangement would permit the passage of sperm from the bulb to the

tip of the penis papilla only in a serpentine fashion. It is possible,

however, that the configuration of the penis lumen as it appears in the

slides obtains only when the penis is retracted. When the papilla is ex-

tended during copulation the passage may well straighten out. Both the

lamellae and the greater part of the outer surface of the papilla are

covered by a thin infranucleate epithelium with two underlying muscle

layers, a circular and a longitudinal one. There is no differentiation of the

penial lumen into a seminal vesicle and ejaculatory duct. At most, a small

anterior portion of the lumen may differ from the remaining part by hav-

ing a ciliated and nucleate epithelium. The vasa deferentia (vd) enter the

penis bulb ventrolaterally, turn dorsomedially, and unite at their opening

into the anterior end of the penial lumen.

The copulatory bursa (b) adjoins the wall of the pharyngeal pouch

(ph). Its outlet, the bursal stalk or duct (bd) proceeds posteriorly for a

short distance as a narrow duct situated somewhat to the left of the

midline and lined with a nucleate, ciliated epithelium. It then expands

into a large, irregularly lobed sac, the vagina (va), the greater part of

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which is also located on the left side. The epithelium lining the vagina

consists of large, apparently apocrine cells with basal nuclei (Fig. 3A),

quite different from those of the anterior part of the bursal duct. It ap-

pears that one of the functions of the vagina is the resorption of super-

fluous sperm after copulation, a process that may take place at many

locations in the turbellarians (cf. particularly Cernosvitov 1931). Sperm

was present in the vagina in two of the three specimens examined. The

vagina connects with the posterior end of the common atrium (ac). At the

transition, the nature of the epithelial lining changes from the vaginal

glandular epithelium to the nonglandular, ciliated epithelium of the

atrium.

The two oviducts or ovovitelloducts unite in the space between the bur-

sal stalk and the atria and form a common oviduct {ode) that opens from

the dorsal side near the junction of the male and common atria.

Distribution and ecology. — Four specimens were collected on 7 April 1979

by Dr. Cato O. Holler, Jr., Christopher Holler, and Keith Barnes in a

small seep toward the rear end of One Bat Cave, located in the Linville

Gorge Wilderness Area, Burke County, North Carolina. They were sent

to me alive. Three of the specimens proved to be sexually mature.

Taxonomic position. — Phagocata carolinensis belongs to a group of closely

related species of the genus distributed in the Appalachian region. Exter-

nally it cannot be distinguished from two other species, P. angusta and P.

holleri. The three have in common the lack of body pigment, a slender

shape, a truncate head end without prominent auricular projections, a

pair of very small eyes, and anatomically prepharyngeal ventral testes.

The principal differences are in the configuration of the copulatory com-

plex. The penial lumen in P. carolinensis shows the peculiar transverse

lamellae (at least in the retracted penis), while in P. holleri it contains

finger-shaped villi (compare Figures 3A and 3B) and in P. angusta no

special internal differentiations. Phagocata carolinensis has an extraor-

dinarily large lobate vagina with a modified histology; P. angusta , a villous

vagina of moderate size; and P. holleri , no distinguishable vaginal

formation. In P. holleri the copulatory apparatus is situated considerably

posterior to the pharyngeal pouch; in P. carolinensis the apparatus adjoins

the pouch closely; while P. angusta has an intermediate position. Details in

the histological differentiation of the epithelia of the copulatory complex

also differ in the three species.

Etymology. — The species is named carolinensis after its habitat, North

Carolina.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — Thanks are due to Dr. Cato O. Holler, Jr.

for his generous collaboration in collecting and shipping the flatworms.

Dr. John C. Harshbarger of the Smithsonian Institution was helpful in

the preparation of the photomicrographs, and Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

kindly reviewed the manuscript.

LITERATURE CITED

Cernosvitov, L. 1931. Studien iiber Spermaresorption. III. Die Samenresorption

bei den Tricladen. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Anat. Ontog. Tiere 54: 295-332, pi. 5-7.

Kenk, R. 1977. Freshwater triclads (Turbellaria) of North America. X. Three

new species of Phagocata from the eastern United States. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.

59:645-652.

1979. Freshwater triclads (Turbellaria) of North America. XI. Phagocata

hollen , new species, from a cave in North Carolina. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.

92( 2):389-393.

Accepted 30 August 1979

Freshwater Fishes of Croatan National Forest,

North Carolina, with Comments on the Zoogeography

of Coastal Plain Fishes

Fred C. Rohde

Department of £ 'oology , University of North Carolina,

CEapel Hill, North Carolina 27514

- George H. Burgess

Florida State Museum, University of Florida,

Gainesville, Florida 32611

and

G. William Link, Jr.

Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina,

Morehead City, North Carolina 28557

ABSTRACT. — In a survey of freshwater fishes in and near Croatan

National Forest, eastern North Carolina, 94 collections at 51 localities

yielded 5670 specimens representing 38 species. Sixteen additional

species have been reported from the Forest, but at least four are con-

sidered questionable. Twenty species of estuarine fishes were collected

during the study, including the first North Carolina record of the

Fourspine stickleback, Apeltes quadracus.

Examination of the distribution of fishes in the nine major river

systems draining the lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina reveals the

absence of a number of species in the smaller drainages (e.g. Shallotte,

New, White Oak and Newport rivers). Two possible reasons are lack of

suitable ecological conditions and the irregular distribution patterns ob-

served at the periphery of a species’ range.

INTRODUCTION

The fishes of the lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina have not been

as intensively sampled as those that occur in upland areas of the state,

primarily because of apparent lower species diversity and high frequency

of underwater obstructions. We initiated the survey on which this paper

is based in 1973 to determine what freshwater fishes occur in the Croatan

National Forest in eastern North Carolina. Observations on brackish

water and marine fishes were also included.

Several prior fish surveys made in the general vicinity of the Croatan

National Forest were either very localized (Bayless 1966; Turner and

Johnson 1973), or covered a wide area of the state (Bayless and Smith

1962; Keup and Bayless 1964; Davis and McCoy 1965). Seehorn (1976)

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Fig. 1. Map of Croatan National Forest showing sampling stations. Heavy line depicts

forest boundary. Circles denote stations in this study; squares represent collections made by

Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML) personnel or earlier workers at University of

North Carolina - Institute of Marine Sciences (UNC); triangles indicate collections made by

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC).

attempted to list all fishes known to occur or which might occur in

southeastern national forests, but his Croatan list was based almost solely

on a literature search (R. E. Jenkins, pers. comm.). We attempted to

sample a large number of freshwater localities in the Croatan National

Forest and adjacent streams in order to assess accurately the abundance

and distribution of its fishes.

STUDY AREA

Croatan National Forest comprises 382,716 hectares and occupies

parts of Carteret, Craven, and Jones counties (Fig. 1). It is drained by the

Neuse, White Oak, and Newport rivers; a fourth river within the forest,

the Trent, is tributary to the Neuse. Five natural lakes totaling 10,617

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hectares are present there. Most of the land not forested is in agricultural

use. There is little domestic or industrial pollution and, because the land

is generally level, there is little evidence of soil erosion.

Water was tannin stained and acidic, as is typical of the Coastal Plain,

and pH values of 4.6 - 9.0 have been recorded in the Neuse River within

the forest, 5.1 - 8.2 in the White Oak, 4.9 - 8.1 in the Newport, and 4.5 -

4.7 in the lakes (Bayless and Smith 1962; Davis and McCoy 1965; Bay-

less 1966). Water temperatures in our study ranged from 3.0 C in January

to 31.0 C in June, and the waters were usually clear.

Stream-side vegetation was typical for the Coastal Plain. Twenty

aquatic plant species were observed in the area: filamentous algae;

Sphagnum sp.; Taxodium distichum ; Typha sp.; Sparganium amencanum;

Potamogeton pectinatus ; JVajas sp.; Ruppia maritima; Sagittana sp.; Scirpus sp.;

Pontedena cor data; Juncus sp.; Saururus cernuus; Ceratophyllum demersum;

Polygonum punctatum; Nymphaea odorata ; Proserpinaca sp.; Myriophyllum

brasiliense; Hydrocotyle sp.; and Utnculana purpurea.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

From 3 September 1973 to 16 September 1978, 94 collections were

made at 51 localities in and near the forest (Fig. 1). All specimens were

collected either with a 3.0 m X 1.2 m, 3.1 mm mesh flat seine; a 6.1 m X

1.2 m, 6.4 mm mesh flat seine (used several times); or a 30.5 m gill net of

vahying mesh sizes (used only once). No attempt was made to standardize

the collection methods used because of variations in physiography at the

different sites. Fish were immediately preserved in 10% formalin and

returned to the laboratory for identification. Representative specimens

were deposited in the Institute of Marine Sciences - University of North

Carolina (UNC) collection. Water and air temperatures and pertinent

physical characteristics of each site were recorded. Although two sites

were sampled intensively as part of several life history studies, most

localities were sampled only once.

Data from collections made at 31 localities (Fig. 1) by the North

Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) (Bayless and Smith

1962; Davis and McCoy 1965; Bayless 1966) were summarized and are

included. These collections were made with 5% emulsified rotenone. Data

from seine and gill-net collections made at 17 localities (Fig. 1) by earlier

workers at UNC-IMS and Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML)

are also included. Additional records were obtained from the fish collec-

tions at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History (NCSM)

and Duke University (DU). All localities at which collections were made

are listed in Table 1.

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Table 1. Sampling localities and dates (day/month/year). Numbers

refer to our stations, letters to those of others (see text).

I. Neuse River drainage

A. Craven County

I. Long Creek on SR 1700, 7.8 km ne North Harlowe,

13/10/73.

2. Bachelor Creek on SR 1224, 14.7 km w New Bern, 31/12/74.

3. Southwest Prong of Slocum Creek on SR 1746, 2.7 km wnw

Havelock, 4/1/75.

4. Hancock Creek on dirt road s off NC 101, 5.1 km se

Havelock, 1/6/75.

5. Cahooque Creek on SR 1716, 7.7 km ne Havelock, 1/6/75.

6. South Fork of Cahooque Creek on SR 1716, 7.7 km ne

Havelock, 1/6/75.

7. Tucker Creek on dirt road w of US 70, 7.5 km ene Havelock,

21/6/75.

8. East Prong of Brice Creek on SR 1100, 3.2 km sw Croatan,

21/6/75, 31/1/76, 27/2/76, 12/3/76, 2/4/76, 30/1/77,

23/2/77, 23/4/77, 14/5/77, 16/9/78.

9. Tributary to Brice Creek on Forest Road 121-2, 7.2 km w

Croatan, 21/6/75.

10. Drainage ditches on SR 1100 at jet. Forest Road 121-2, 4.8

km sw Croatan, 21/6/75, 9/4/77.

II. Tributary to Brice Creek on Forest Road 170, 8.8 km nw

Croatan, 31/1/76.

12. Tributary to Brice Creek on Forest Road 170, 8.8 km nnw

Croatan, 31/1/76.

13. Neuse River at Cherry Point at end of SR 1716, 11.0 km ne

Havelock, 18/5/76

14. Neuse River at Flanner Beach at end of SR 1107, 2.4 km ne

Croatan, 18/5/76, 16/9/78.

15. Reedy Branch on SR 1004, 11.0 km ene Pollocksville,

31/1/76.

16. Reedy Branch on SR 1340, 11.7 km se Pollocksville,

31/1/76.

17. Tucker Creek on dirt road e of US 70, 5.0 km se Croatan,

17/7/77.

A. Little Lake, 7.4 km wsw Havelock, 14/4/52, 29/4/52.

B. Ellis Lake, 8.5 km sw Havelock, 24/4/52, 29/8/57.

C. Tributary to Hancock Creek on NC 101, 3.7 km e Havelock,

14/4/52.

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D. Drainage ditch tributary to outlet Ellis Lake, 7.8 km sw

Flavelock, 14/4/52.

E. Neuse River at North Harlowe, 29/8/57.

F. Drainage ditch along US 70, 3.2 km se Havelock, 29/8/57,

14/4/62.

G. See #14, 19/4/56.

H. See #8, 2/5/71, 7/10/72.

E Long Creek on SR 1700, 7.8 km ne North Harlowe,

13/10/73.

J. Cahooque Creek at junction Hancock Creek, 6.7 km ne

Havelock, 20/5/76, 24/8/76.

B. Jones County

18. Mill Creek on SR 1108, 3.2 km s Pollocksville, 22/8/74,

7/12/74.

19. Island Creek on SR 1004, 8.2 km ene Pollocksville, 22/8/74.

20. Tributary to Trent River on SR 1337, 1.4 km nw

Pollocksville, 7/12/74.

21. Mill Run on NC 58, 5.4 km w Pollocksville, 7/12/74,

12/3/76, 28/8/76.

22. Mill Creek on SR 1004, 0.8 km se Pollocksville, 28/8/76.

23. Tributary to Trent River on SR 1340, 9.9 km ne

Pollocksville, 14/6/77, 19/11/77.

II. White Oak River drainage

A. Carteret County

24. Pettiford Creek on Forest Road 128, 8.0 km ne Cape Car-

teret, 1/1/75.

25. Unnamed creek on SR 1101, 0.5 km e Stella, 1/1/75.

26. Hadnot Creek on NC 58, 8.8 km nnw Cape Carteret,

8/6/76.

27. Hadnot Creek on SR 1104, 8.8 km n Cape Carteret, 8/6/76.

28. Drainage ditch on Forest Road 176, 12.8 km n Cape Car-

teret, 8/6/76.

29. Hunters Creek on NC 58, 13.6 km nnw Cape Carteret,

8/6/76.

K. White Oak River at Stella, 3/3/56.

L. White Oak River on NC 24 at Swansboro, 17/8/71.

M. See #24, 31/7/72.

B. Craven County

30. Great Lake, sw corner at end Forest Road 126, 17.3 km se

Maysville, 16/8/76.

31. Drainage ditch on SR 1100, 10.5 km e Maysville, 30/1/77.

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C. Jones County

32. Black Swamp Creek on NC 58, 4.8 km se Maysville,

7/12/74.

33. Drainage ditch along SR 1105, 9.8 km e Maysville,

31/12/74, 4/1/75, 16/8/75, 30/1/77, 23/2/77, 12/3/77,

19/3/77, 27/3/77, 3/4/77, 9/4/77, 16/4/77, 23/4/77,

30/4/77, 14/5/77, 14/6/77, 17/7/77, 14/8/77, 18/9/77,

16/10/77, 19/11/77.

34. Tributary to Black Swamp Creek on SR 1105, 6.2 km ese

Maysville, 4/1/75.

35. Drainage ditch on SR 1105, 200 m w Black Swamp Creek,

9.9 km e Maysville, 16/8/75.

36. Black Swamp Creek on SR 1105, 10.0 km e Maysville,

16/8/75, 9/4/77.

37. Holston Creek on NC 58, 10.1 km se Maysville, 8/6/76.

38. White Oak River on US 17, 2.2 km s Maysville, 28/8/76,

14/5/77.

39. White Oak River on SR 1118, 3.2 km nw Maysville,

28/8/76.

40. White Oak River, 0.5 km sw Haywood Boat Landing, 10.7

km se Maysville, 14/5/77.

41. White Oak River at Haywood Boat Landing, 10.2 km se

Maysville, 14/5/77.

N. See #33, 18/7/59.

D. Onslow County

42. Starkys Creek on SR 1434, 13.4 km nw Swansboro, 7/12/74.

43. Webb Creek on SR 1435, 9.0 km nw Swansboro, 7/12/74.

III. Newport River drainage

A. Carteret County

44. Mill Pond and below spillway in Black Creek on SR 1154,

3.3 km e Newport, 3/9/73, 1/6/75.

45. Northwest Prong of Newport River on SR 1 124, 3.2 km wnw

Newport, 22/8/74, 30/12/74, 4/1/75, 10/5/75, 16/9/78.

46. Drainage ditch on SR 1125, 7.4 km s Havelock, 1/1/75,

1/4/75, 5/4/77.

47. Unnamed tributary on US 70, 1.6 km s Newport, 1/3/75.

48. Shoe Branch on SR 1124, 1.3 km wnw Newport, 1/3/75.

49. Little Deep Creek on SR 1139, 2.9 km ne Newport, 1/3/75.

50. Deep Creek on SR 1133, 3.7 km n Newport, 1/3/75.

51. Pond, 0.5 km n of SR 1124, 1.3 km nw Newport, 1/3/75.

O. See #44, 17/8/56.

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P. See #45, 31/7/72, 7/6/73.

Q. Southwest Prong of Newport River on SR 1124, 6.9 km w

Newport, 7/6/73.

RESULTS

Freshwater Fishes

The following is a list of freshwater fishes collected in (or near) or

reported from the forest, with comments on dubious records and records

of interest. Table 2 provides a list of species by drainage and collector.

Lampetra aepyptera , Least brook lamprey

2 specimens, station 21 . Menhinick et al. (1974) listed four localities for

this species in North Carolina, one of which was station 21. Although

three trips were made specifically to collect this lamprey, only two am-

mocoetes were captured. We also visited two of the remaining three

localities and took lampreys (8 ammocoetes) at only the Pitt County site.

The habitat at these sites was marginal for lampreys. Bailey et al. (1977)

listed this species as of Special Concern in North Carolina. Because of

lack of suitable habitat at the few known localities we feel that this species

should be considered Threatened in the state.

Petromyzon mannus , Sea lamprey

One ammocoete (155 mm TL) was collected at station 21 on 21 Oc-

tober 1969 by J. R. Bailey, Duke University (DU uncat.). Two am-

mocoetes of L. aepyptera were taken concurrently.

Lepisosteus osseus, Longnose gar

4 specimens, stations 27, 38, 44. K, J, NCWRC.

Anna calva, Bowfin

NCWRC. Local fishermen reported this species from small ponds near

Newport. Turner and Johnson (1973) collected it at their uppermost sta-

tion in the Newport River.

Anguilla rostrata , American eel

237 specimens, stations 3-8, 16, 19, 21-27, 29, 36-39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47-

50. B, C, D, P, NCWRC.

Dorosoma cepedianum , Gizzard shad

1 specimen, station 38. J, NCWRC.

Umbra pygmaea, Eastern mudminnow

188 specimens, stations 5-7, 8, 10, 28, 31, 33, 35, 36, 44, 46. N,

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Esox americanus americanus, Redfin pickerel

100 specimens, stations 4, 6-10, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27, 33, 35-37, 45-47,

49, 50. C, F, M, P, NCWRC.

E. mger, Chain pickerel

21 specimens, stations 1, 6, 8, 23, 27, 37. B, I, J, NCWRC.

Carassius auratus , Goldfish

B. Local fishermen reported it as present in a small pond near

Newport.

Cypnnus carpio , Carp

NCWRC. One specimen taken in the Newport River.

Hybognathus regius, Silvery minnow

36 specimens, stations 18, 23. NCWRC. The status of this form as a full

species and its relationships with other Hybognathus species requires

further investigation.

Notemigonus crysoleucas, Golden shiner

69 specimens, stations 6, 7, 8, 18, 25, 27, 32, 38, 40, 44, 45, 50. P,

NCWRC.

JVotropis altipinnis, Highfin shiner

Reported by Seehorn (1976) from the forest, but R. E. Jenkins (pers.

comm.) says it was included by mistake. Hubbs and Raney (1948) re-

corded it from a tributary on the north shore of the Trent River.

N. amoenus , Comely shiner

NCWRC. Taken only in Trent River and tributaries. Representative

specimens are in the NCSM fish collection.

N. bifrenatus , Bridle shiner

NCWRC. Three Tucker Creek specimens represent the southernmost

record for the species (Jenkins and Zorach 1970). We made collections at

two separate sites without success. Station 17 is close to the NCWRC site,

but we encountered high salinities (8 ppt) which had apparently forced

most freshwater fishes upstream. Bailey et al. (1977) said that N. bifrenatus

is probably extirpated at this locality.

N. chalybaeus , Ironcolor shiner

176 specimens, stations 18, 22, 27, 32, 38, 39, 45. C, P, NCWRC.

N. cummingsae, Dusky shiner

47 specimens, stations 16, 18, 19, 32. NCWRC.

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JV. hudsomus , Spottail shiner

3 specimens, station 23. NCWRC. Found only in Trent River and

tributaries.

JV. procne , Swallowtail shiner

NCWRC. Taken only in Trent River and tributaries. Representative

specimens are in NCSM collection.

Enmyzon oblongus oblongus , Creek chubsucker

70 specimens, stations 3, 6, 7, 19, 21, 23, 29, 38, 45, 46. J, NCWRC.

E. sucetta , Lake chubsucker

138 specimens, stations 8, 10, 33. H, NCWRC. We encountered some

difficulty in identifying certain Croatan specimens. Hanley (1976) stated

that E. oblongus oblongus and E. sucetta hybridize in the drainage ditches of

the forest probably as a result of habitat alteration.

Moxostoma spp., Redhorses

NCWRC tentatively recorded M. collapsum ( = anisurum) from a Trent

River tributary and M. papillosum from the White Oak River. R. E.

Jenkins (pers. comm.) believes that either M. amsurum or M. macro-

lepidotum may be present in Forest waters, as both have been collected

from the lower Neuse in the vicinity of New Bern. We did not collect

either species.

Ictalurus catus , White catfish

K, NCWRC.

/. natahs, Yellow bullhead

92 specimens, stations 7, 8, 10, 30, 32, 33, 36, 38, 45-47. B, H, P,

NCWRC.

I. nebulosus, Brown bullhead

J, NCWRC.

I. punctatus, Channel catfish

H, NCWRC. Possibly introduced to Neuse drainage (Jenkins et al.

1972).

Noturus gynnus, Tadpole madtom

15 specimens, stations 29, 38, 45, 49, 50. NCWRC.

JV. insigms , Margined madtom

23 specimens, stations 21, 40, 45. NCWRC.

Chologaster cornuta , Swampfish

803 specimens, stations 8, 10, 24, 33-35, 37, 45-47. N, NCWRC. Most

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specimens were collected at station 33 as part of an investigation into the

life history of this species.

Aphredoderus sayanus sayanus , Pirateperch

476 specimens, stations 3-8, 20-25, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35-39, 41, 42, 44-47,

49, 50. P, NCWRC.

Fundulus diaphanus diaphanus , Banded killifish

6 specimens, station 23. Taken only in a tributary of the Trent River.

F. lineolatus , Lined topminnow

237 specimens, stations 8, 10. H, NCWRC. Found only in drainage

ditches along Catfish Lake Road (SR 1100), where it is abundant. Wiley

(1977) recently revised the Fundulus notti species group. He considered F.

lineolatus a full species and resurrected the name F. escambiae for the

Florida panhandle populations. However, Ralph Yerger (pers. comm.)

has found what he believes to be intergradation of the two forms in the

median portions of several panhandle systems. Additional study of this

complex problem is certainly required.

Gambusia affims holbrooki , Mosquitofish

1129 specimens, stations 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25-27, 30, 38,

44, 45, 47, 49, 50. A, B, C, E, H, NCWRC.

Acantharchus pomotis , Mud sunfish

41 specimens, stations 4, 8, 33, 34, 45-47, 50. NCWRC.

Centrarchus macropterus, Flier

136 specimens, stations 4, 7-9, 15, 18, 32, 35, 36, 45, 47. M, Q,

NCWRC.

Elassoma zonatum, Banded pygmy sunfish

NCWRC. One specimen collected at a site on the Trent River.

Enneacanthus chaetodon , Blackbanded sunfish

Sweeney (1972) reported the Blackbanded sunfish from a locality near

the forest, but indicated that the record is probably erroneous because

numerous efforts by collectors in this region have failed to collect the

species. Seehorn (1976) and Jenkins et al. (1975) perpetuated this possi-

ble error. The closest known records, according to Menhinick (ms), are in

Duplin, Lenoir, and Pender counties.

E. glonosus , Bluespotted sunfish

735 specimens, stations 1, 3-10, 15, 17, 21, 23-25, 27-31, 33, 35-39, 41,

44-47, 50. H, M, P, NCWRC.

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E. obesus , Banded sunfish

126 specimens, stations 8, 10, 31, 33, 35, 36, 45, 46. A, C, D, P,

NCWRC.

Lepomis auntus , Redbreast sunfish

22 specimens, stations 18, 21, 38, 44, 45, 49, 50. P, NCWRC.

L. gibbosus, Pumpkinseed

70 specimens, stations 5-8, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 29, 38, 41, 45, 48. J, P,

NCWRC.

L. gulosus, Warmouth

89 specimens, stations 3, 7, 8, 10, 30, 37, 38, 44, 45. B, C, D, Q,

NCWRC.

L. macrochirus, Bluegill

172 specimens, stations 8, 18, 21, 25, 26, 38, 43-45, 50. B, C, D, Q,

NCWRC. Possibly introduced to the Neuse system (Jenkins et al. 1972).

L. marginatus, Dollar sunfish

Although reported by Seehorn (1976) as occurring in the forest, there

are no records to substantiate this. Closest verified localities are in north-

ern Craven County.

L. microlophus , Redear sunfish

NCWRC. Stocked by the NCWRC in the White Oak River.

Micropterus salmoides salmoides , Largemouth bass

24 specimens, stations 1, 23, 25, 32, 37, 38, 44, 45, 50. I, J, O, P,

NCWRC.

Pomoxis mgromaculatus , Black crappie

8 specimens, stations 8, 44. NCWRC. Possibly introduced into New-

port drainage (see Discussion).

Etheostoma fusiforme fusiforme , Swamp darter

38 specimens, stations 3, 6, 7, 21, 38, 44. B, NCWRC.

E. olmstedi olmstedi , Tessellated darter

176 specimens, stations 3, 16, 18, 21, 22, 38, 39, 45, 48. P, NCWRC.

E. sernferum , Sawcheek darter

152 specimens, stations 6-8, 22, 33, 38, 39, 44-47, 50. P, NCWRC.

Perea flavescens , Yellow perch

4 specimens, stations 8, 36. A, NCWRC. Possibly introduced to Neuse

system (Jenkins et al. 1972).

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Percina crassa roanoka , Piedmont darter

4 specimens, station 21. This species, rarely encountered on the lower

Coastal Plain, was collected over gravel in swifter portions of the creek.

Station 21 represents the easternmost known locality in North Carolina.

Estuarine Fishes

Twenty estuarine fishes were taken within the forest (Table 3). Most

were sporadic visitors during periods of increased salinity. One item of

note is the capture of a Fourspine stickleback, Apeltes quadracus, at station

23 on 14 June 1977, the first published record of a stickleback in North

Carolina.

Table 3. Species, numbers (N) and station numbers of estuarine fishes collected

in (and near) Croatan National Forest, North Carolina, in this study.

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DISCUSSION

Fifty-one species of freshwater fishes representing 16 families have been

identified as occurring in or near the Croatan National Forest (Table 2,

plus Petromyzon mannus). Four additional species ( Notropis altipinnis, En-

neacanthus chaetodon, Lepomis marginatus, L. punctatus ) possibly occur there.

Sunfishes (Centrarchidae), well suited to the slow-moving, vegetated

waters of the Croatan National Forest, are the most speciose family with

12 species. Minnows (Cyprinidae) are also well represented with ten

species, but none is common.

Although major sections of the White Oak and Newport rivers are con-

tained in the forest, their faunas do not contribute as much to the overall

diversity as does the fauna of the Neuse River, which drains only a very

small part of the overall area. Forty-six species were collected in the

Neuse drainage, including 12 not taken in the Newport or White Oak

rivers. The Trent River, a tributary of the Neuse, forms the northern

boundary of the forest and accounts for much of the diversity. Eight of the

12 species confined to the Neuse drainage were taken only in the Trent or

its tributaries. The Newport and White Oak rivers had 33 and 34 species

respectively, of which only 3 were unique to one or the other system.

Our examination of fishes in the three Croatan National Forest

drainages prompted a review of the distributions of lowland (lower

Coastal Plain) fishes throughout North Carolina. Most distributional

data were obtained from regional faunal summaries (Jenkins et al. 1972;

Jenkins et al. 1975; Menhinick, ms) and systematic revisions (e.g.

Collette 1962; Snelson 1968; Yerger and Relyea 1968; Sweeney 1972),

but some unpublished records are based on collections of ours. Nine ma-

jor rivers drain into coastal North Carolina estuaries, including one (the

Cape Fear) that is composed of two systems on the Coastal Plain (Fig 2).

Some (e.g. the Shallotte, New, White Oak, and Newport rivers) are small

drainages confined to the lower reaches of the Coastal Plain, whereas

others (e.g. the Cape Fear, Neuse, Tar, and Roanoke rivers) are more ex-

tensive and originate in the Piedmont or the Appalachian Mountains.

The following discussion concerns fishes of those rivers lying totally or in

part below the Fall Line in North Carolina.

Nineteen species reach the northern termini of their distribution ranges

on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina or in nearby southeastern Virginia

(Table 4, plus Micropterus salmoides salmoides and Etheostoma serriferum). The

greatest faunal break occurs between the Cape Fear and the more

northern drainages, with eight terminations in the combined Cape Fear-

Northeast Cape Fear systems (see Jenkins et al. 1972 for additional dis-

cussion of this break). Five species terminate in the Chowan River in

North Carolina and Virginia (Jenkins et al. 1975). Only four fishes

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Fig. 2. Coastal drainages of eastern North Carolina lying below the Fall Line. Surry Scarp

drawn from White (1966).

( Lampetra aepyptera, Notropis bifrenatus, Etheostoma vitreum, Percina peltata

nevisense ) have southern termini in the Coastal Plain drainages. Noturus

funosus is confined to the Neuse and Tar drainages (Taylor 1969), but

may have been present in the Roanoke prior to habitat destruction by

dams and pollution (C. R. Gilbert, pers. comm.). Memdia extensa and

Etheostoma perlongum are endemic to Lake Waccamaw, and Fundulus wacca-

mensis is confined to lakes Waccamaw and Phelps (see zoogeographic dis-

cussions in Hubbs and Raney 1946; Jenkins et al. 1972; and Bailey et al.

1977). Phelps Lake F. waccamensis have not been critically examined, and

introduction from Lake Waccamaw is considered a possibility.

Twenty-four native species are uniformly distributed throughout

coastal North Carolina drainages: Lepisosteus osseus, Dorosoma cepedianum,

Anguilla rostrata, Umbra pygmaea, Esox americanus americanus, E. mger,

Notemigonus crysoleucas, Notropis chalybaeus, Enmygon oblongus oblongus, 1c-

talurus natahs, Noturus gynnus, N. insignis, Aphredoderus sayanus sayanus, Gam-

busia affinis holbrooki, Acantharchus pomotis, Centrarchus macropterus, En~

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neacanthus glonosus, Lepomis auritus, L. gibbosus, L. gulosus, L. macrochirus,

Micropterus salmoides salmoides , Etheostoma olmstedi olmstedi, and E. serriferum.

Of these, only M. s. salmoides and E. serriferum terminate in the Chowan

(Jenkins et al. 1975); all others extend farther northward. No southern

terminations are involved.

Using available distributional information, 41 species are known to be

absent from one or more Coastal Plain drainages in North Carolina.

Based on habitat preferences and distributional patterns of the species in-

volved, we believe that 13 of these will eventually appear in collections

from those drainages where they are now unknown (Table 4). Three

others (Elassoma evergladei, Notropis petersoni, N. cummingsae) have northern

termini in North Carolina and are not expected in more northerly

drainages. The remaining 25 species have what appears to be real dis-

tributional gaps. These may be further separated into two groups: a

lowland contingent composed of 5 species of sunfishes, and a larger group

of 20 species with predominantly upland affinities (Table 4). All are miss-

ing from the New, White Oak, and Newport rivers, and all but Lepomis

marginatus and L. punctatus are also absent from the Shallotte or Northeast

Cape Fear, or both.

The absence of the 5 lowland species of sunfishes ( Lepomis marginatus, L.

punctatus, Elassoma zonatum, Enneacanthus chaetodon, Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

from the New, White Oak, and Newport rivers is enigmatic. Since the

first three species reach terminations in nearby northern drainages

(Table 4), it is possible that their absence in these intermediate rivers

merely reflects the irregular distribution pattern often observed at the

periphery of a species’ range. Enneacanthus chaetodon is often absent from

habitats for which it is seemingly well-suited and its distribution is spotty

throughout most of its range (Jenkins et al. 1975; Burgess et al. 1977).

Enneacanthus chaetodon is likely to be discovered in one or more of these

drainages with further collecting. We have two records of Pomoxis

nigromaculatus from the Newport drainage, but since both are from a single

pond (Mill Pond) owned by a fishing club, we suspect introduction.

Although P. nigromaculatus is a common lowland form in much of North

Carolina (Table 4), its apparent absence in these three coastal drainages

may prove real. <

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plained. Most species involved are forms that prefer swifter flowing, up-

land streams, habitats which are scarce or absent in the New, White Oak,

and Newport drainages. The 30 meter high stand in sea level (repre-

sented today by the Wicomico Shoreline or Surry Scarp, Fig. 2) that oc-

curred in the Pleistocene may have influenced the distribution of these

fishes. The area occupied by the present-day Shallotte, New, White Oak,

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and Newport rivers and most of the Northeast Cape Fear River was inun-

dated by encroaching seas; colonization by stream fishes began as the sea

regressed and rivers developed. Most species with preferences for slow-

moving, lowland waters were probably able to enter these newly develop-

ing systems, but others with upland affinities undoubtedly found the

ecological conditions unsuitable and never became established.

The distribution of Fundulus diaphanus diaphanus , a secondary freshwater

species (Myers 1938, 1951) that tolerates brackish waters, is not ex-

plainable by lack of upland habitat. Flowever, F. d. diaphanus prefers

gravel or sand bottoms and avoids areas of heavy siltation (Shapiro 1947),

and most lowland North Carolina rivers are heavily silted. In addition,

the species is at the southern periphery of its range in North Carolina,

and records are few south of the Neuse River. Ictalurus punctatus is similarly

distributed, but the extensive introductions of this species throughout its

range prevents assigning any significance to the pattern.

The diversity of fishes in the Croatan National Forest is quite high

compared to studies made on other Coastal Plain regions. Jenkins et al.

(1975) found 25 species in the Dismal Swamp and 43 species in the

Chowan system on the Coastal Plain. Both areas are considerably larger

than Croatan National Forest.

At present there is little evidence of degradation of the Forest waters,

and with proper management practices these waters should continue to

support a diverse ichthyofauna.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.— We would like to thank R. G. Arndt, J. E.

Cooper, C. R. Gilbert, D. S. Lee, S. W. Ross, and F. J. Schwartz for their

helpful comments for improvement of the manuscript. Many people

assisted with the collecting; we especially thank D. E. Fast and S. W.

Ross. J. G. Lundberg and students assisted with several collections. A. F.

Chestnut and F. J. Schwartz of the Institute of Marine Sciences - Univer-

sity of North Carolina provided equipment and vehicles. J. B. Sullivan of

Duke University Marine Laboratory and J. R. Bailey of Duke University

provided information on collections in their care. W. M. Palmer allowed

access to the fish collections at the North Carolina State Museum of

Natural History. E. F. Menhinick graciously permitted us to review his

unpublished distribution maps of North Carolina fishes.

Most of this work was carried out while the authors were at the In-

stitute of Marine Sciences - University of North Carolina.

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Accepted 31 May 1979

Genetic Variation in Cave-dwelling and Deep-sea Organisms,

with Emphasis on Crangonyx antennatus (Crustacea:

Amphipoda) in Virginia.

Gary W. Dickson1 and John C. Patton

Department of £ oology ,

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602

John R. Holsinger

Department of Biological Sciences,

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23508

AND

John C. Avise

Department of £ oology ,

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602

ABSTRACT. — Genetic variation was analyzed through electrophoretic

techniques in six populations of the troglobitic (i.e. obligatory cave-

dwelling) amphipod Crangonyx antennatus from Lee County, Virginia.

From the results of this investigation and those tabulated from previous

studies on a number of cave-dwelling species, genetic variability does

not appear to be substantially reduced in populations inhabiting sub-

terranean environments. The origin of normal levels of genetic

variability in cave-dwelling species may differ from those organisms in-

habiting another relatively stable environment, the deep-sea. The high

levels of genetic variability recorded in many deep-sea invertebrates are

thought to be due in part to the presence of large populations of these

species. In contrast, the small population sizes observed in cave-dwelling

organisms may allow species to expand their niches with an associated

increase in genetic variability.

INTRODUCTION

Similarities in the physical environments of caves and the deep-sea

have led to the suggestion that similar selection pressures may be

operating on their respective faunas (Poulson 1971). Caves and the deep-

sea share several important characteristics including absence of light,

reduced food supply, and relative stability of chemical and physical

properties. Similar biological adaptations have been observed in

organisms inhabiting abyssal (Menzies et al. 1973) and subterranean

Present address: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Drawer E, Aiken, S.C.

29801.

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(Poulson 1964) areas. The deep-sea and cave environments probably lie

at the extreme end of a continuum of environmental stabilities.

Several theories relating the level of genetic variability maintained in a

natural population to the degree of environmental heterogeneity have

been proposed (Levins 1968; Grassle 1972; Selander and Kaufman 1973;

Valentine 1976). The basis for these hypotheses is that increased genetic

variation would allow individuals to be better suited to spatial and tem-

poral heterogeneity of the environment. A population in a heterogeneous

physical environment or a population which perceives its environment as

coarse-grained, would be expected to maintain greater genetic variability

than a population living under a more homogeneous regime (Nevo 1976).

These hypotheses have received some support in experimental laboratory

populations of Drosophila maintained under constant versus variable con-

ditions (Powell 1971; McDonald and Ayala 1974). Genetic studies of

deep-sea and cave faunas should permit tests with natural populations of

the proposed correlation between genetic variability and environmental

heterogeneity.

Electrophoretic techniques may be employed to survey products of

structural genes chosen without prior bias with respect to level of

variability. Such studies have been conducted on various deep-sea inver-

tebrates including mollusks, echinoderms and crustaceans. A recent

review of these studies compiled by Siebenaller (1978) indicated that

abyssal fauna contain levels of genetic variability similar to those of

species living in other aquatic habitats.

In one of the first genetic studies of a cave organism, Avise and Selan-

der (1972) observed exceptionally low genetic variability in certain cave

populations of the fish Astyanax mexicanus. Results identified an additional

complicating factor influencing genetic variability but unrelated to selec-

tion pressures per se : drift and founder effect in the frequently small

cavernicole populations. Since that time several other studies of genetic

variation in cave species have been published. Because of the possibility of

drift lowering genetic variation in many cave populations, tests of the

proposed relationship between environmental and genetic heterogeneity

using cave organisms are likely to be one-sided. That is, the observation of

normal or high levels of genetic variability would tend to refute the

proposed correlation, while the observation of low variability could often

be attributed to either selection pressures or stochastic events.

Our investigation was conducted (1) to examine genetic variability in

another cave organism, the troglobitic (i.e. obligate cave-dwelling)

amphipod crustacean Crangonyx antennatus Packard, and (2) to summarize

the available literature concerning genetic variation in other cave species.

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METHODS AND MATERIALS

In this study, populations of the troglobitic amphipod crustacean, C.

antennatus , were examined electrophoretically. This species is one of the

most common and widespread aquatic troglobites in the eastern United

States. It occurs in the Appalachian region of Virginia, Tennessee,

Georgia and Alabama (Holsinger 1969, 1972). Crangonyx antennatus oc-

cupies two distinctly different habitats within its range: gravel-bottom

streams and mud-bottom pools. Significant differences in morphology

(Dickson 1977a), behavior (Dickson 1977b) and population structure

(Dickson and Holsinger, in press) were observed between populations liv-

ing in these habitats.

Populations of C. antennatus were sampled from six caves in Lee County,

Virginia (Fig. 1). Although the populations are relatively large in caves of

this area, small collections were taken from each cave to minimize pop-

ulation disruption (Table 1). Three of the populations sampled inhabited

gravel-bottom streams (Spangler, Cope and Gallohan No. 2 caves) and

three inhabited mud-bottom pools (Roadside No. 1, Molly Wagle and

Sweet Potato caves). Mud-bottom pool habitats generally contained

greater quantities of available food, fewer predators and smaller numbers

of potential competitors than stream habitats. Additional ecological data

on these habitats were given elsewhere (Dickson and Kirk 1976; Dickson

1977a); geological data are found in Holsinger (1975).

After collection, amphipods were transported live to the laboratory and

stored at — 70°C until analyzed. Amphipods were electrophoresed on

horizontal starch gels using conditions and staining procedures similar to

those of Selander et al. (1971) and Ayala et al. (1972). Of 21 enzyme

systems screened on six gel types, eight allowed consistent scoring, with

two of those exhibiting polymorphic allozyme patterns interpreted as

segregating electromorphs. As previously noted by Gooch and Hetrick (in

press), amphipods are not well suited for electrophoretic study, probably

because of the release of inhibitory enzymes from the hepatopancreas

during homogenization.

The monomorphic systems included glucose-6-phosphate

dehydrogenase (G-6-P), indophenol oxidase (IPO), aldehyde oxidase

(AO), malate dehydrogenase (MDH), and general proteins I-II (GP-1,

GP-2). The polymorphic systems scored were phosphoglucose isomerase

(PGI) and phosphoglucomutase (PGM). The PGI locus exhibited three-

banded heterozygote patterns, suggesting that this enzyme is a dimer.

Two-banded heterozygote phenotypes were observed at the PGM locus,

as expected for a monomeric enzyme. These enzyme structures are con-

sistent with those recorded in other crustaceans, including lobsters

(Tracey et al. 1975) and crayfish (K. Stueck, in prep.). To determine

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Fig. 1. Allele frequency distributions for phosphoglucose isomerase and phospho-

glucomutase in the study area. Insert shows location of the six caves sampled for Crangonyx

antennatus in relation to the major surface drainage in the Powell Valley, Lee County,

Virginia. 1. Roadside No. 1 Cave (RD), 2. Molly Wagle Cave (MW), 3. Sweet Potato Cave

(SP), 4. Cope Cave (C), 5. Spangler Cave (S), and 6. Gallohan No. 2 Cave (G).

whether electromorphs produced at the same locus in different popula-

tions were identical or different, amphipods from all six populations were

run on the same gels.

RESULTS

All population samples were monomorphic for the same electromorph

at six loci (G-6-P, IPO, AO, MDH, GP-1 and GP-2). Electromorph fre-

quencies for the two polymorphic loci are given in Table 1. A total of five

allelic products were distinguished for both PGI and PGM, although in

only one case (PGM, Molly Wagle Cave) were all five electromorphs ob-

served in a single cave. For eight loci in C. antennatus , polymorphism

(proportion of loci polymorphic) equals 0.25. The mean proportion of loci

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Table 1.

Allele frequencies at polymorphic loci in Crangonyx antennatus popula-

tions. (N) = number of individuals examined. Abbreviations as in Fig.

1.

heterozygous per individual (heterozygosity) can be estimated in two

ways: by direct count, and by expected heterozygote proportions in each

population assuming Flardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Heterozygosity

values per cave range from 0.021 (counted) and 0.058 (expected) to 0.276

(counted) and 0.124 (expected) (Table 2), and overall mean

heterozygosities (H), weighted by sample size, in C. antennatus equal 0.1 18

and 0.136, respectively. The greater spread in values for the counted

heterozygosities primarily results from assay in some populations of only

small numbers of specimens at the apparently monomorphic loci. At the

PGM locus there was a consistent tendency for pool populations to ex-

hibit significant heterozygote deficiencies relative to Hardy-Weinberg

Table 2. Heterozygosity (H) values in populations of Crangonyx antennatus. Ab-

breviations'as in Fig. 1.

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expectations. Heterozygosity values displayed no correlation with dis-

tance from the Powell River.

Sample sizes and numbers of loci scored were small for reasons noted

earlier, so the results must be interpreted with extreme caution. Estimates

of genetic variability fall near the middle of the range of values previously

reported in crustaceans from other aquatic habitats (H ranges from 0.038

in the lobster, Homarus amencanus , to 0.211 in the krill, Euphausia

distinguenda; see reviews in Nevo 1978 and Powell 1975). Heterozygosity

values in C. antennatus are considerably above mean values reported for

eight other cave species (H = 0.056, Table 3).

A striking aspect of the data is the high degree of allele frequency

heterogeneity among C. antennatus populations, particularly at the PGM

locus where sample sizes were fairly large (Table 1, Figure 1).

Heterogeneity among localities can be expressed by the standardized

genetic variance (FST), which provides a common scale for comparing the

relative levels of interlocality allele frequency heterogeneity at different

loci, or in different sets of populations (Wright 1978). For five elec-

tromorphs at the PGM locus, weighted FST = 0.300 among populations

of C. antennatus inhabiting the approximately 60 km2 area of the study.

This variance in allele frequency is greater than mean values among snail,

Helix aspersa , populations in different California cities or house mice, Mus

musculus, populations on different farms in Texas (Selander and Kaufman

1975). It is comparable to observed values between bluegill sunfish,

Lepomis macrochirus, populations inhabiting distinct reservoirs within large

southeastern drainages (Avise and Felley, in press). The microgeographic

heterogeneity in C. antennatus is consistent with the contention that caves

may be highly partitioned habitats, analogous to islands or archipelagos

(Culver 1971).

Genetic similarity values were calculated between pairs of cave popula-

tions using Nei’s (1972) identity statistic (T). This statistic can assume

values from 0 (no electromorphs shared) to 1 (identical electromorph fre-

quencies). For the populations of C. antennatus studied, I values fell be-

tween 0.858 and 0.968, within the range typical of conspecific populations

in other invertebrates. The identity matrix was employed to generate a

biochemical dendrogram (Fig. 2) according to the unweighted pair-group

method with arithmetic means (Sneath and Sokal 1973). There is no clear

tendency for stream and pool populations to cluster distinct from one

another. Based on the relatively distinct pattern of allele frequencies in

the population from Roadside No. 1 Cave (Figs. 1, 2; Table 1), it appears

that the Powell River has acted as a partial barrier to gene flow.

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from eight loci. Scale is in units of genetic identity, I. Cophenetic correlation equals 0.79

DISCUSSION

In addition to measurements of physical and chemical parameters,

studies of troglobitic organisms have yielded biological evidence which at-

tests to the relative environmental stability of cave systems. In general,

troglobitic species exhibit K-selected population characteristics including

late maturity, low reproductive rates, large size at hatching and increased

longevity (see reviews in Vandel 1965; Dickson and Holsinger, in press).

Population characteristics of this type have been associated with

relatively stable (i.e. predictable) habitats (MacArthur and Wilson

1967). Of these characteristics, perhaps the most remarkable is the ex-

tremely long life span reported for various troglobites (Poulson 1964;

Cooper 1975; Dickson and Holsinger, in press). Increased longevity has

also been described in deep-sea organisms (Turekian et al. 1975;

Engemann 1978).

From the results of the present investigation and previous studies on a

number of different cave species (Table 3), genetic variability does not ap-

pear to be substantially reduced in populations inhabiting subterranean

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habitats. Values of genic heterozygosity in many cavernicolous popula-

tions are comparable to those of species from epigean environments (Nevo

1978). However, a cautionary note is required. Studies on troglobitic

organisms are still few in number, and generally have included only a

small number of loci. Results are not yet sufficient to eliminate the

possibility of a mild quantitative decrease in genic variation in cavern-

icolous populations. It does appear very likely that the genetic response of

troglobitic organisms to their environment (at least as evidenced by level

of genetic variability) is not qualitatively different from that of other

species. Analogous conclusions have been reached from studies of

organisms inhabiting abyssal areas (Siebenaller 1978; Costa and Bisol

1978).

The genetic variability observed in populations inhabiting stable en-

vironments (i.e. caves and deep-sea) may have different origins.

Siebenaller (1978) proposed that the relatively high variability observed

in many deep-sea invertebrates could be due to the presence of large pop-

ulation sizes and to interactions predicted by the time, population size

and divergence hypothesis of Soule (1976). In cave organisms, species and

population numbers are normally smaller than in most faunal counter-

parts living in other habitats, including abyssal areas (Poulson 1964).

The normal levels of genetic variability in these subterranean species

could be due to a process described as ecological release (Avise and Selan-

der 1972). In the generally depauperate cave communities, troglobites

could expand their niches and exploit resources which would normally be

shared by two or more species. Relatively high levels of genetic variability

might be maintained under these conditions.

If genetic variation is not neutral with respect to fitness, normal levels

of genetic variability in deep-sea and cave organisms could also be main-

tained by selection due to spatial or temporal heterogeneity. Although

caves and the deep-sea are considered more stable than most other

aquatic and terrestrial areas, physical habitat variability and seasonal

fluctuations in certain parameters are present (Poulson and White 1969;

Menzies et al. 1973). It is possible that the threshold of environmental

heterogeneity below which significant genetic variability is no longer

favored is still lower than the level of environmental variation in the

proverbially stable environments of caves and the deep-sea.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — We are grateful to Mrs. Eleanor Berry,

owner of Molly Wagle Cave, and to other cave owners in Lee County,

Virginia, for their cooperation in allowing us access to their property. In

addition, we thank Karen L. Stueck, Raymond R. White, Donald G.

Buth and an anonymous reviewer for providing helpful comments and

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criticisms on various drafts of this manuscript. Portions of this study were

supported by Contract DE-AC09-76SR00819 between the University of

Georgia and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Accepted 29 August 1979

A Photographic Technique to Study Tadpole Populations

C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.

Office of Endangered Species , U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

Washington, D. C. 20240

ABSTRACT. — Although the use of photography to estimate the num-

bers of vertebrates in wild populations is a well established wildlife man-

agement technique, it has not been previously used in studies of tad-

poles in shallow breeding ponds. A pond used by the American toad,

Bufo americanus , was monitored through the breeding season of 1977 in

Fairfax County, Virginia. Tadpole clusters were photographed and the

prints used to evaluate this technique for working with such populations.

An example of how the technique may be used is provided. While espe-

cially valuable in certain types of studies (for instance, those involving

tadpoles in shallow ponds without much vegetation and containing one

or a few species), photographic analysis is probably of use in many field

studies.

INTRODUCTION

Use of photography to estimate the numbers of vertebrates in wild pop-

ulations is a well established wildlife management technique (Watson

1969; also see references in Caughley 1977 and Giles 1969) although it

has generally been employed in connection with aerial censuses.

However, photography has not been previously used to estimate the num-

bers of larval amphibians in breeding ponds. Since many species of

amphibians breed in shallow ponds where the larvae are readily visible,

such populations should be amenable to analysis by photographic

methods. I attempted to determine if photography could be used to study

one of these populations of tadpoles.

METHODS AND MATERIALS

The study area encompassed a shallow (initially 70 mm maximum

depth) temporary pond, 42.8 m2 in surface area, located near the con-

fluence of Indian Run and Back Lick Run, Fairfax County, Virginia.

Characteristic vegetation in and surrounding the pond included sedges

(Cyperaceae), Juncus sp., Bidens sp., Aster sp., Lespedeza sp., willow ( Salix

sp.) and river birch ( Betula nigra)', individual plants often formed clumps

and were scattered along the bottom and around the edges of the pond.

The pond was surrounded by a rather well-defined margin consisting of a

thick growth of vegetation on one side and a mud bank on the other. This

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margin apparently represents the limit to which the pond fills during

periods of maximal rainfall. Tadpoles remained in the pond and were not

observed in any of the small pockets of water located in the margin.

Five study quadrats were selected and photographed with Kodachrome

64 slide film using a Nikon F camera with a 55 mm micro lens. A one

meter ruler was placed at the top of each area photographed to insure

uniformity of quadrat size; each quadrat measured 25 x 40 cm (see Fig. 1

for location of quadrats). The camera was hand held directly over the

area to be photographed, in such a way as to assure that the film plane

was parallel to the surface of the water and the scale of reference. If this is

not done the resulting shift in parallax could cause a scaling problem,

thus affecting area, and therefore density, estimates. Care was taken to

insure that movements of the observer and placement of the meter ruler

did not disturb the tadpoles and cause them to change their position.

Each slide was enlarged to a 17 x 25.5 cm print and the 25 x 40 cm

quadrat was marked off (Fig. 2). A clear plastic sheet was overlain on the

photograph and tadpoles marked onto the sheet as they were counted.

Thus, both the exact position and number of tadpoles could be scored for

each quadrat.

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Fig. 2. Quadrat B showing the meter rule and the 25 x 40 cm study plot.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Results of the photographic overlays are provided in Fig. 3. Tadpoles

were easily counted and marked; seldom was there a question as to

whether a black mark on the photograph should be counted. However,

tadpole shadows are a potential problem. Densities of tadpoles were

generally D-2 (20-50% of area covered by tadpoles, tadpoles within 1-5

cm of one another) or D-3 (51-89% of area covered, tadpoles mostly in

contact) in the sense of Beiswenger (1975); if densities greater than this

are encountered, photographic analysis might prove difficult.

Although the five study plots were apparently selected at random, I

made no attempt at complete objectivity, such as using a table of random

numbers to preselect quadrats. Therefore, an estimate of population size

based on total numbers of tadpoles from these sites would not provide a

statistically accurate picture of tadpole numbers. Methods for the estima-

tion of population sizes via direct counts within randomly selected

quadrats are available. Caughley (1977) provided several methods which

might be useful, notably the use of stratified random sampling as applied

to aerial surveys.

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Fig. 3. Positions of tadpoles in each of the study plots as determined from photographs.

The number of tadpoles in each quadrat is: A) N = 545, B) N = 599, C) N = 268, D) N = 213,

E) N=480.

As an example, had the quadrats used in this study been randomly

preselected, the stratified random sampling method would have yielded a

value of Yh = 180,188. The standard error rounded off to 34,000 would

give a population estimate (with 95% confidence) between 116,200 and

244,200 tadpoles. The literature on toads reports a wide range of eggs

deposited per female (2000 to 20,600). Therefore, using the high figure, 6

to 12 females produced these tadpoles; using the low figure, 58 to 122

females produced them. Other data gathered preliminary to this study

showed that 12 females actually bred at the pond. Assuming 100% suc-

cessful hatch of eggs, this number was therefore within the admittedly

large estimate predicted by tadpole numbers. On the other hand, if eggs

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per female were estimated, then each female would have deposited be-

tween 9680 and 20,350 eggs, again within the range of literature reports.

Obviously, knowledge of other aspects of a species’ biology would severely

limit basing predictions about anuran population breeding characteristics

solely on tadpole counts. However, depending on species, photographic

analysis of a tadpole population could be substituted for, or used to sup-

plement, counts in the field. Thus, photography could provide a valuable

technique for the estimation of certain amphibian population parameters.

There are obvious problems with the method. Deep ponds or those that

are very murky or clogged with vegetation would not be suitable for such

analysis, nor would ponds that harbor many species of tadpoles, since

tadpoles are difficult to identify without examining certain key charac-

teristics (Altig 1970). However, many types of tadpole populations would

seem to be particularly suited to photographic analysis, notably tadpoles

of those species which use shallow and/or temporary water sources, es-

pecially in xeric habitats. In addition, photographic analysis could be

valuable in monitoring the breeding status of species considered en-

dangered or threatened, such as the Houston toad, Bufo houstonensis. The

animals could be left undisturbed, thus avoiding the harassment which

may be prohibited by law without a special permit. Sequential

photography might also prove valuable in studies of the orientation

behavior of tadpoles over a period of time.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — I would like to thank John Fay, Bruce

MacBryde, and LaVerne Smith for identifying the plants. Ronn Altig,

Paul V. Cupp, James J. Hebrard and an anonymous reviewer provided

valuable criticisms and comments on the manuscript.

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Altig, Ronald. 1970. A key to the tadpoles of the continental United States and

Canada. Herpetologica 26:180-207.

Beiswenger, Ronald E. 1975. Structure and function in aggregations of tadpoles of

the American toad, Bufo americanus. Herpetologica 31: 222-233.

Caughley, Graeme. 1977. Analysis of vertebrate populations. John Wiley & Sons,

London. 234 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. (ed.). 1969. Wildlife management techniques. Wild. Society,

Washington, D. C. 623 pp.

Watson, R. M. 1969. Aerial photographic methods in censuses of animals. East

African Agric. For. J. 34: 32-37.

Accepted 8 July 1979

Rediscovery of the Sharphead Darter, Etheostoma acuticeps , in

North Carolina (Pisces: Percidae)

Richard T. Bryant, James P. Beets and Michael G. Ryon

Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee,

Knoxville, Tennessee 37916

ABSTRACT. — Etheostoma (Nothonotus) acuticeps , the Sharphead darter,

was known prior to October 1975 on the basis of only 37 specimens from

the South Fork Holston River, Tennessee, and the North Toe River,

North Carolina. The populations at all of these localities are either ex-

tremely tenuous or extirpated by impoundments and strip mining

runoff. In 1975 a TVA field crew discovered a healthy population in the

lower Nolichucky River below Davy Crockett Reservoir. A search of the

upper tributaries of the Nolichucky revealed a small population in the

lower 6 km of the Cane River, North Carolina. The Sharphead darter

inhabits the swiftest portion of riffles in water 15-40 cm deep. The sub-

strate is typically cobble and small boulders 8-20 cm in diameter, well

covered with riverweed, Podostemum ceratophyllum. Because of the small

size of the Cane River population and various threats to the water

quality of the river, the Sharphead darter warrants endangered status in

North Carolina.

INTRODUCTION

The Sharphead darter, Etheostoma acuticeps , is a poorly known member

of the subgenus Nothonotus. In fact, until October 1975, only 37 specimens

of this Fish had been collected and the species was considered extinct. It

was not recognized as distinct until 1947, when two specimens were

collected in the South Fork Holston River, Tennessee. A last attempt to

obtain the darter prior to the impoundment of South Holston Reservoir

resulted in only four specimens, indicating a meager population. The

species was described by Bailey (1959) on the basis of these six

specimens, and at that time the only known locality was under 58 m of

water.

In the 1960s L.W. Knapp and T. Zorach independently uncovered four

misidentified collections of E. acuticeps at the Academy of Natural Sciences

of Philadelphia totaling 28 specimens (Zorach 1972). These had been

labeled by Fowler (1936a,b) as Nothonotus rufilineatus. The collections were

made in June 1930 by J.G. Carlson and T. Kerr in the South Fork

Holston River, Tennessee, and the North Toe River, North Carolina. Ap-

parently the collections were not very exhaustive, as they included only a

few species. Etheostoma acuticeps was caught in respectable numbers,

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however, indicating much healthier populations than at the type locality,

but these populations are also undoubtedly now extirpated. The South

Fork Holston localities are either impounded or are tailwaters supporting

cold-adapted fishes (Jenkins and Burkhead 1975). The North Toe River

has been subjected to extensive siltation from mica strip mining in North

Carolina (Jenkins and Burkhead 1972, Saylor and Etnier 1976). The

mica and feldspar dust smothers the eggs and eliminates the interstitial

microhabitat of the darters. In recent years siltation of the North Toe has

been aggravated by highway construction that parallels the river nearly to

its headwaters.

Exhaustive attempts by Jenkins and Burkhead (1975) to obtain E.

acuticeps in the Holston drainage in 1972 resulted in only three specimens.

These were taken in the South Fork Holston River just above the im-

pounded portion of South Holston Reservoir, where there apparently is

enough habitat to support a small and extremely tenuous population. In

the fall of 1975, Charles Saylor and a TV A field crew looking for the Snail

darter, Percina tanasi , discovered the Sharphead darter in the Nolichucky

River between Davy Crockett and Douglas Reservoirs (Saylor and Etnier

1976). Davy Crockett Reservoir had acted as a settling basin and pro-

tected the lower Nolichucky population from the siltation that eliminated

the North Toe population. The discovery of this very healthy population

allowed better understanding of the exact microhabitat of the Sharphead

darter and fueled speculation by D. Etnier (pers. comm.) that the species

may exist in larger tributaries of the Nolichucky that are relatively free of

siltation. Bailey (1977) considered the Sharphead darter extirpated in

North Carolina, however, as it had not been collected in the state in 47

years. v

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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

We collected Etheostoma acuticeps on 14 July 1977 in the Cane River just

below the US hy. 19W bridge, 1 km se of Sioux, Yancey County, North

Carolina. It has since been collected at several sites between the 19W

bridge and the confluence with the Toe River by E. F. Menhinick and his

ichthyology class from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and

by the authors. Attempts by both groups to find the fish above the 19W

bridge have been fruitless, leading us to believe that this is its upstream

limit.

The river above the bridge is slightly higher in gradient than below,

with larger rocks and less riverweed, Podostemum ceratophyllum. The only

member of the subgenus Nothonotus found there was the Greenfin darter,

Etheostoma chlorobranchium. The habitat below the bridge is more like that

in the lower Nolichucky. The Sharphead darter is found in the main body

of riffles, in fairly swift water 15-40 cm deep. The substrate is cobble and

small boulders, 8-20 cm in diameter, usually well covered with riverweed.

The lower Nolichucky has slightly smaller substrate and lower current

velocity. The lower Cane River drops about 2.3 m/km and the lower

Nolichucky only 1 m/km. The riffles are typically shaded by large trees

and bordered by beds of waterwillow, Justicia amencana. Etheostoma

acuticeps is not a numerous species at any of these sites. The largest collec--

tion made by Menhinick and class at the 19W bridge included only 14

specimens in a sample containing 80 other darters.

During November 1977 a flood in the Cane River watershed washed

away a road, a house and a service station at the 19W bridge. In order to

replace the road bed, bulldozers were used in the vicinity of the bridge, an

action which inadvertently eliminated Sharphead darter habitat. The

shade trees, waterwillow beds, and thick riverweed growth are gone, and

the area is broad, bare gravel. Just how much of this destruction is due to

the bulldozing is difficult to assess, but riffles above and below the bridge

seem to be unchanged and normal habitat. Intensive sampling at t

bridge on 23 September 1978 revealed mostly Gilt darters, Percina evides

few E. chlorobranchium and only one E. acuticeps. In addition, Big Creek,

which enters the Cane just above the bridge, has been channelized for

several kilometers upstream. This may have detrimental effects on the

lower Cane. Other problems upstream of the E. acuticeps population in-

clude two gravel washing operations, one of which, according to a local

game warden, was the source of a chemical spill that resulted in a fish kill

5 km long.

Etheostoma acuticeps is known in North Carolina from only the lower 6

km of the Cane River. It apparently is not numerous and its continued ex-

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chemical spills may have detrimental effects on this species, as well as

others inhabiting the lower Cane River. The Sharphead darter should be

considered an endangered species in North Carolina.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.— The authors would like to thank Dr. E. F.

Menhinick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, for the use of his

excellent field notes, and Dr. J. F. McCormick and the Ecology Program

at the University of Tennessee for support and the use of a vehicle.

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Bailey, Joseph R. 1977. Etheostoma acuticeps Bailey. Sharphead darter, pp. 284-285

in Cooper, J. E., S. S. Robinson andj. B. Funderburg (eds.). Endangered and

Threatened Plants and Animals of North Carolina. N. C. State Mus. Natural

Hist., Raleigh, xvi + 444 pp.

Bailey, Reeve M. 1959. Etheostoma acuticeps , a new darter from the Tennessee River

system, with remarks on the subgenus Nothonotus. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool.

Univ. Mich. 603:1-10.

Fowler, Henry W. 1963a. Notes on some Tennessee fishes. Fish Culturist 75:111.

1 936b. Freshwater fishes obtained in North Carolina in 1 930 and 1 934. Fish

Culturist 75:192-194.

Jenkins, Robert E., and N. M. Burkhead. 1975. Recent capture and analysis of

the sharphead darter, Etheostoma acuticeps , an endangered percid fish of the up-

per Tennessee River drainage. Copeia 1 975 (4) :731-740.

Saylor, Charles F., and D. A. Etnier. 1976. Discovery of the Sharphead darter,

Etheostoma acuticeps Bailey, in the lower Nolichucky River, Tennessee. ASB

Bull. 23{ 2):93-94. Abstract.

Zorach, Timothy. 1972. Systematics of the percid fishes Etheostoma camurum and E.

chlorobranchium , new species, with a discussion of the subgenus Nothonotus.

Copeia 1 972(3) :427-447.

Accepted 22 January 1979

Nesting Biology of Andrena ( Larandrena ) miserabihs Cresson and

Description of the Prepupa (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

Beth B. Norden and Aubrey G. Scarbrough

Department of Biological Sciences, Towson State University,

Baltimore, Maryland 21204

ABSTRACT. — Andrena ( Larandrena ) miserabihs Cresson was found nesting

in the sandy soil of the amphitheater in Highlands Hammock State

Park, Highlands County, Florida. Observations were made on 31

December 1975, 1-3 January 1977, and 4-7 March 1977. Circular tumuli

marked nest entrances and an average density of 11 nests per 15 cm2

area was found. Nest tunnels were ca. 5 mm in diameter and extended

from 28.5 cm to 47.0 cm deep. A single cell ca. 5.7 mm in diameter was

constructed, lined, and provisioned. Pollen balls averaging 2.9 mm in

diameter were dark yellow and consisted of Acer rubrum pollen. Prepupa

were cream-colored, C-shaped, and 5.2 mm to 7.3 mm long. Sphecodes sp.

and Solenopsis sp. were found in association with the nesting bees, and

evidence of nest destruction by the armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, was

noted.

Although the Holarctic genus Andrena is a common, extensive tax-

onomic group, little is known about the biology of many species (Rozen

1973, Davis and LaBerge 1975). A large colony of Andrena ( Larandrena )

miserabihs Cresson in Florida provided an opportunity to observe nest

biology on 31 December 1975, 1-3 January 1977, and 4-7 March 1977.

Adults and larvae also were collected during these visits for later

laboratory examination. All specimens retained are in the Entomology

Collection, Towson State University.

Study Site. — Andrena miserabihs was nesting in the soil of the

amphitheater in Highlands Hammock State Park, Highlands County,

Florida. The amphitheater consists of an oblong clearing ca. 9.0 m X 15.0

m in the mature hardwood hammock. It contains 12 rows of wooden

benches (Fig. 1) and is surrounded by hydric hammock dominated by

broadleaved evergreen trees including Liqmdamber styraciflua, Persa

palustns, Godoma lasianthus, Ulmus flondana, Nyssa sylvatica, Sabal palmetto ,

and Citrus aurantium. Epiphytes of the genera Epidendrum, Tillandsia , and

Polypodium are common on the trunks and limbs. All nests were located

within the clearing, 2 to 3 m inward from the peripheral vegetation, and

this was the only nesting site found within the park.

Nests of A. miserabihs were scattered throughout the clearing, beneath

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Fig. 1. Study site, March 1977.

benches as well as in open walkways. As pointed out by Osgood (1972),

sites with well drained soil, good surface flow, and sparse plant cover are

most often selected for nest construction by solitary bees. The sandy soil

of the amphitheater provided these characteristics, while the hammock

floor was densely matted with plant debris. The loose leaf litter covering

the amphitheater floor presented no obstacle for bees to crawl beneath.

Davis and LaBerge (1975) suggested that loose debris protects nests

against beating rain and parasites, and may aid Andrena in nest recogni-

tion.

The amphitheater soil is classified as Sunniland-Bradenton which con-

sists of fine sand down to marl hardpan. It is moderately wet and has a

pH of 5. 0-6. 5. The sand is dark gray and contains fine carbon particles

from fires of previous years. The soil is permeated by a complex network

of roots at a depth of 2 to 5 cm below the surface. These roots, originating

from hammock trees, hindered excavation.

Nest Construction. — The density of nests was determined by counting the

number of nest openings within a 15 cm wire frame, placed at 1 m inter-

vals along a line transect diagonally crossing the amphitheater. An

average of 11 nests per 15 cm area (N = 30) was found, and the nests

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were slightly more numerous toward the rear of the amphitheater. This

distribution is perhaps influenced by morning sunlight which reaches the

rear area earliest. Early warmth after cool January nights may allow

more foraging time.

Conspicuous, circular tumuli were usually present at nest entrances.

They ranged in diameter from 2.0 cm to 4.3 cm (x = 3.2 cm, N = 30).

Tumuli height ranged from 0.9 cm to 2.0 cm (x = 1.6 cm). Most nests

were clustered in groups of 2 to 5, with many tumuli overlapping. Solitary

nests were seldom found.

Nests were excavated with the aid of plaster of Paris poured into the

entrances. Tunnels descended vertically except to circumvent roots. They

were circular in cross-section, ca. 5.0 mm in diameter, and their walls

consisted of unlined, slightly compacted, moist sand. The main shaft ex-

tended from 28.5 cm to 47.0 cm deep (x = 37.8 cm, N = 46). At the bot-

tom of the vertical tunnel a lateral tunnel ca. 1.5 cm long terminated in a

single cell. Although additional cells may have existed, none was located.

Thorp and Stage (1968) reported difficulty in finding laterals of Andrena

placida which also nests in sand.

Most cells were oriented horizontally to the main tunnel. They were

slightly larger in diameter than the descending shaft (x = 5.7 mm, N =

18) and were lined with a thin, transparent waterproofing material. Cells

were shiny, smooth, and jet-black from soil carbon wetted as the cell was

lined. Microscopic examination showed that individual sand grains were

cemented together by the hardened lining material.

Provisioning. — Pollen balls were spherical, dark yellow, and uniformly

moist. Completed balls ranged in diameter from 2.5 mm to 3.2 mm (x =

2.9 mm, N = 25). As previously noted for other Andrena (Michener and

Rettenmeyer 1956, Linsley and MacSwain 1959, Davis and LaBerge

1975), incomplete balls were smaller, less smooth, and drier than com-

pleted balls.

Slides were prepared of provisions taken from three different nests ca. 3

m apart. Microscopic examination of several hundred pollen grains

proved them to be of a single type, probably Acer rubrum, typically a wind

pollinated species. We never observed bees upon the flowers as it was not

possible to follow them outside the amphitheater and no A. rubrum were in

the immediate area. The bees never flew through the hammock, but

always left or entered the area from above the surrounding trees. As noted

by Graenicher (1930), bees are seldom found in a shaded hammock

interior.

Adult bees were actively foraging when the study site was first visited

on 31 December 1975. A steady progression of individuals left the

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Fig. 2. Prepupa of Andrena miserabilis. a. Larva, lateral view. b. Head, lateral view. c.

Head, frontal view. d. Spiracle, frontal view. e. Spiracle, longitudinal section, f. Right

mandible, ventral view. g. Right mandible, inner view.

amphitheater and returned to the nesting site, usually carrying pollen.

Flight activity of several hundred bees became concentrated in a region

directly above their nests to a height of ca 1.5 meters. Zig-zag flight pat-

terns exhibited within this region by exiting and returning bees suggested

that they were conducting orientation maneuvers. Once above this region

they followed a straight line of flight.

Observations on 1-3 January 1977 were made during cooler tem-

peratures (7-9°C) under overcast skies and during intermittent showers.

Under these conditions activity was noticeably reduced, with little or no

zig-zag flight activity above the nests. Returning bees flew to the vicinity

of their nests, landed, and crawled (seldom directly) to their burrows.

When departing, bees remained on the sand outside their nests for several

minutes, then crawled 3 or 4 cm before taking flight. Males were found

crawling along the ground beside females, and in two instances males oc-

cupied burrows with females during a shower.

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Description of Prepupa (Fig. 2). — Cream colored, C-shaped, 5.2 mm to

7.3 mm long (N = 15), with prominent transverse, dorsolateral tubercles.

Intersegmental furrows distinct. Head lacking setae, weakly sclerotized;

cleavage lines indistinct. Vertex rounded with two small paramedian con-

vexities. Antennae represented by low convexities arising from large,

rounded prominences. Parietal bands not apparent. Posterior thickening

of head capsules inconspicuous; hypostomal and pleurostomal thicken-

ings more pronounced. Posterior tentorial pits distinct. Epistomal suture

weak; labroclypeal suture distinct. Labrum bearing two small convexities

with clustered sensillae; tubercles absent. Mandibles robust; moderately

sclerotized, most heavily at cusp; apex attenuate and sharply pointed; up-

per apical margin with dense row of teeth; lower margin with row of

smaller denticles; ventral surface with row of denticles near lower margin,

denticles and spicules scattered distally; adductor apodeme twice as long

as abductor apodeme. Maxillae with indistinct separation of cardines and

stipites. Maxillary palpi very pronounced, twice as large as labial palpi.

Labium with prementum and postmentum undefined. Salivary opening a

U-shaped slit. Body naked; spiracular atria extending slightly above body

surface.

Predators and Parasites. — On 2 January 1977, three adult Sphecodes sp.

were noted in the nesting area, two of which were observed leaving

Andrena nest burrows. Members of this genus are frequently nest parasites

of bees (Bohart 1970). Also present at Andrena nest entrances were ants of

the genus Solenopsis, and an adult female Andrena was collected on 3

January 1977 with an ant firmly grasping both right wings (Fig. 3). The

bee crawled from a nest hole, attempted flight, then crawled along the

ground dragging the ant.

Fig. 3. Female Andrena miserabilis with Solenopsis attached to wings.

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On the mornings of 5 and 6 March 1977, tracks and feeding excava-

tions of the Nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus , were found in

the area containing the highest density of Andrena burrows. The armadillo

excavations extended to the depth of larval bee cells and fragments of

opened cells were present. It is doubtful that bee larvae were being sought

by armadillos; but if encountered larvae would likely be consumed, and

nests were destroyed by the digging.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. — We gratefully acknowledge the contribu-

tions of the following persons: Drs. W. E. LaBerge, Illinois Natural

History Survey, Urbana; S. W. T. Batra, U.S.D.A., Beltsville, Md.; and

E. S. Deevey, Florida State Museum, Gainesville, for bee, ant, and pollen

identifications respectively; and Dr. R. Shoemaker, M. Brenner, T.

Bladen, R. Franz, and A. Norden for technical assistance.

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drena) erigeniae Robertson (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). 111. Nat. Hist. Surv.

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comparative data on other species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Univ. Kans.

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with the low-bush blueberry in Maine. Maine Life Sci. Agric. Exp. Stn. Tech.

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Accepted 5 May 1979

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CONTENTS

Cretaceous Dinosaurs of North Carolina. Donald Baird

and John R. Horner 1

Revision of Appalachian Trechus (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

Thomas C. Barr, Jr 29

Cretaceous Selachians from the Peedee Formation

(Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina.

Gerard R. Case 77

Freshwater Triclads (Turbellaria) of North America. XII.

Another New Cave Planarian from North Carolina,

Phagocata carolinensis n. sp. Roman Kenk 91

Freshwater Fishes of Croatan National Forest, North Carolina, with

Comments on the Zoogeography of Coastal Plain Fishes.

Fred C. Rohde, George H. Burgess and G. William Link, Jr 97

Genetic Variation in Cave-dwelling and Deep-sea Organisms,

with Emphasis on Crangonyx antennatus (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

in Virginia. Gary W. Dickson, John C. Patton,

John R. Holsinger and John C. Avise 119

A Photographic Technique to Study Tadpole Populations.

C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr 131

Rediscovery of the Sharphead Darter, Etheostoma acuticeps,

in North Carolina (Pisces: Percidae). Richard T. Bryant,

James P. Beets and Michael G. Ryon 137

Nesting Biology of Andrena ( Larandrena ) miserabilis Cresson

and Description of the Prepupa (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae).

Beth B. Norden and Aubrey G. Scarbrough 141

Errata and Miscellany 147