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120 Stolephorus argyrophanus (Cuv, & Val.) 

 Silvery Anchovy 



Engraulis argyropJianus Ouviek & Valenciennes, Hist. Xat. Poiss. XXT, 



49, 1848. 

 Stolephorns perfasciatus Jordan «fe Gilbert, Bull. 16, IT. S.Nat. Mus. 273, 1883, 



not Engraulis perfasciatus Poey, Mem. Cuba, II, 312, 1858. 

 Stolephorus eurystole Swain & Meek, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 34, 1881 r 



Bean, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII. 150, pi. Ill, fig. 19, 1888. 

 Stolephm-us argyrophanus Jordan «& Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



444, 1896; Bean, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 337, 1897; Smith, Bull. 



U. S. F. C. XVII, 92. 1898. 



Body elongate, much more slender than in S. b r o w n i i , 

 and not so mucli compressed; head not so deep as in S. 

 brownii, more pointed, the snout rather sharp; eye rather 

 small, four and one half in head, not larger than snout; maxil- 

 lary teeth well developed, mandibulary teeth very slender; gill 

 rakers very long, as long as the eye; maxillary shorter than in 



5. brown i, not reaching quite to the base of the mandible;, 

 belly slightly compressed, not serrated. Scales very deciduous. 

 Ventrals short, very slightly in front of dorsal; caudal peduncle 

 long and slender; dorsal inserted scarcely nearer caudal tiian 

 snout. Silvery stripe broad, half wider than the eye, bordered 

 above by a dusky streak. Head three and four fifths; defjth 



6. D. 12; A. 20. Length 4 inches. West Indies; occasional 

 northward. A specimen in our collection from Woods Hole 

 Mass. (After Jordan and Gilbert) 



The t^T)es of this species were obtained by Kuhl and Van' 

 Hasselt in the equatorial Atlantic. Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 in their original description^ of the fish, contrast it with S. 

 b r o w n i and others, from which it is distinguished by its form 

 and by other characters. 



It has the body longer and slenderer; the cleft of the mouth 

 more oblique; the pectoral and anal much shorter; the teeth 

 excessively small. B. 11; D. 1.5; A. 17. The color is blue, more 

 pronounced on the back than on the belly. A silvery band run- 

 ning along the sides. Cuvier and Valenei-ennes 



Young individuals were seined at Ocean City N. J. Aug. 1, 

 1887; again at Longport ]K. J. numerous young were taken Aug^ 



^Hist. Nat. Poiss. 1848. 21:49. 



