Produced by Chris Curnow, Tom Cosmas, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume 11, No. 7, pp. 401-442, 2 plates, 4 figs. in text, 5 tabl. May 8, 1959 Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas BY W. L. MINCKLEY UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1959 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Robert W. Wilson Volume 11, No. 7, pp. 401-442, 2 plates, 4 figs. in text, 5 tables Published May 8, 1959 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas A CONTRIBUTION FROM THE STATE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KANSAS PRINTED IN THE STATE PRINTING PLANT TOPEKA, KANSAS 1959 [Union Label] 27-7080 Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas BY W. L. MINCKLEY CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 403 Acknowledgments 404 Tuttle Creek Dam and Reservoir 404 Big Blue River Basin 404 Geology of the basin 405 Climate, population, and land-use 406 Physical features of streams 407 Previous records of fishes 410 Methods and materials 410 Collecting stations 412 Annotated list of species 414 Hybrid combinations 431 Relative abundance and discussion of species 431 Creel census 435 Recommendations 437 Summary 438 Literature cited 438 INTRODUCTION