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certainty if the last dorsal ray was elongated as in Dixonina. Neither 

 were we sure if the last anal fin ray was elongated. The rest of our 

 material was too small for certain demonstration of this character, but 

 the appearance of the last dorsal and anal rays gave us the impression 

 that they could have been in the process of elongation. We were unable 

 to ascertain from the literature at what standard length this elongation 

 takes place. 



Consequently, although we strongly suspect that at least some of 

 our specimens may be Dixonina nemoptera, we here designate them all 

 as Albula vulpes on the basis of the non-elongate last dorsal and anal 

 fin rays. 



Dussumieriidae 



Jenkinsia lamprotaenia (Gosse) 



Material: A 23-39, 1 (43.4 mm.), AHF 2629, from Tortuga Island, 

 Venezuela. 

 Remarks: Our single very soft specimen had a prominent silvery 

 lateral band, nearly the diameter of the eye. With toothed premaxillae, 

 14 anal rays, and 26 (possibly only 25) lower-limb gill rakers, it clearly 

 belongs to this species (see Whitehead, 1963: 351 f.). Furthermore, the 

 relatively high gill raker count makes our specimen typical of the 

 Venezuelan population, which Whitehead (p. 354) apparently consid- 

 ered to be of the subspecies /. /. viridus ( Bean ) . We must question such 

 designation on the basis of range; /. /. viridus is said to occur in 

 Venezuela and Bermuda, with /. /. lamprotaenia (Gosse) between. 



Glupeidae 



Generic and some specific determinations for our material in this 

 family were made with the aid of Storey (1938) and Meek and 

 Hildebrand (1923). Species within the genus Harengula were deter- 

 mined with the aid of Rivas (1950). 



Harengula clupeola (Cuvier) 



Material: A 6-39, 760 (23.7—55.1 mm.), AHF 2624, from Caledonia 



Bay, Panama. 

 A 54-39, 1 (74.9 mm.), AHF 2623, from Caledonia Bay, 



Panama. 

 A 23-39, 1 (87.1 mm.), AHF 3023, from Tortuga Island, 



