A Check List of the Fishes of Iowa with Keys for Identification by Reeve M. Bailey, 1951

(1951) A Check List of the Fishes of Iowa with Keys for Identification by Reeve M. Bailey, 1951. Natural Resources, Department of

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Abstract

Investigation of the fish fauna of Iowa has been largely concentrated into two periods, extending from 1884 to 1891, and from 1932 to the present. The pioneer work was dominated by Seth Eugene Meek, onetime Professor of Zoology in Coe College, and later Curator of Fishes at Field Columbia Museum (now the Chicago Natural, History Museum). As an employee of the U. S. Fish Commission Meek examined streams systematically throughout the state, and the reports (Jordan and Meek, 1885; Meek, 1889 to 1894), together with a paper by Call (1892) still provide the bulk of the published information on the distribution of Iowa fishes. Surveys of the fishes of the Okoboji Lake region (Larrabee, 1926) and of the Keokuk section of the Mississippi River (Coker, 1930) added materially to the knowledge of the fishes of these areas. Potter and Jones (1928) compiled the Iowa fish records and prepared a revised list of the fishes of the state.