| Rivulus marmoratus Poey, 1880 has previously been found only in south Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas, Barbuda, St. Martin and several islands off the Venezuelan coast (Curaçao, Bonaire and Gran Roque) (Hoedeman, 1958; Böhlke & Chaplin, 1968). In September of 1978, one of my students, Mr. Edgard W. Cabezas, brought me a specimen of this species that he had caught in the northern section of Maracaibo City, state of Zulia, Venezuela. We revisited the site, a poorly drained section of town near the western shore of the Straits of Lake Maracaibo, on 21.ix.1978 and 14.x. 1978, and collected an additional 19 specimens (15 of which are in my personal collection). Most of the fish were caught in shallow, brackish water (salinity 25°/00, temperature 3i°C) among... |
