Excerpt from Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1952, Vol. 99 The present report is not intended to be comprehensive in scope, since there are not yet sufficient collections of fishes from Venezuela to justify the writing of a descriptive catalog. It is rather a report on several collections of Venezuelan fishes, with descriptions of new species, and represents only the beginning in the study of the fish fauna of Venezuela. It is highly desirable that much more extensive collections be made in all the stream systems and lake basins of the country. Unless otherwise indicated all collections were made in 1942 by L. P. Schultz in the Maracaibo Basin. Abbreviations used to indicate museum catalog numbers are as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.