Abstract
Goldsborough and Clark (1908) described the minnow Rhinichthys bowersi from Dry Fork and Shavers Fork of the Cheat River, West Virginia. Raney (1940a) reidentified the holotype of R bowersi as a hybrid Nocomis micropogon X R cataractae. Stauffer et al. (1979) reexamined morphometric and meristic characters of N. micropogon, R. cataractae, and 42 specimens of the putative hybrid collected from the Monongahela basin. They concluded R. bowersi to be unquestionably of hybrid origin but felt it constituted a morphological species based on its distinct range, consistent characters, and apparent success in nature. Stauffer et al. (1979) refrained from assigning taxonomic status to R bowersi due to insufficient data.
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