158 Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 



[MCZ 17961, Poey's 36] stated to be holotype); Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 5 (2), 



1943: 27, fig. 9 (descr., range, synon.); Schultz, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., gg, 1949: 39 (synon., locals. 



listed). 

 Anchovia froducta Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Publ., Zool., ^5(1), 1923: 210 (descr., Mindi Cut, 



Colon [market], and Porto Bello, Panama); Nichols, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 10 (2), 1929: 206 (diagn., 



range, "not uncommon about Puerto Rico"). 

 Anchovia macrolepidota Fowler (not of Kner and Steindachner), Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1917: 130 (two 



from Colon, Panama, found by present writer to be A. clupeoides). 

 Anchoviella clupeoides Fowler, Arqu. Zool. estad. Sao Paulo, J (6), 1941 : 134 (Brazilian rec). 



Doubtful References: 



Stolephorus productus Schreiner and Ribeiro, Arch. Mus. nac, Rio de J., 12, 1903: 93 (Rio de Janeiro, without 



comment). 

 Stolephorus clupeoides Eigenmann and Norris, Rev. Mus. pauL, 4, 1904: 360 (one from Sao Paulo, Brazil; 



proportions given indicate ident. probably not correct). 



Anchovia nigra Schultz 1949' 

 La anchoa 

 Figure 26 



Study Material. Many paratypes, 14—76 mm TL (12— 60 mm SL), and the type, 

 125 mm TL (95 mm SL), from Lake Maracaibo and its tributary streams. 



Distinctive Characters. See Relationship and Variation^ p. 161. 



Description. Proportional dimensions in per cent of standard length, not including 

 small examples regarded as juveniles because they would distort the picture; dimen- 

 sions and counts based on 11 or more specimens from Study Material, 50 mm TL 

 and over. 



Body: depth 21-28.9. Pectoral fin: length 16-18. 



Head: length 23-31.3. 



Snout: length 4.15—4.3. Scales: ca. 40—48. 



Eye: diameter 6.1-8.3. ^^^^ rakers: ca. 70+ 140 in adults, fewer 



Postorbital: distance 15—19. in young. 



Mi2«7/<zry: length 18.5-24. Fin rays: dorsal 12-14; ^^^^ 29-31; 



Mandible: length 17—22. pectoral 12 or 13. 



Anal fin: length of base 26—31. Vertebrae: 39—41 (18 specimens). 



Body strongly compressed, rather deep, its depth increasing with age, 3.5-4.75 

 in SL in specimens 60-125 "^"^ TL, about ^.c, in specimens around 25 mm. Head 

 3.2-4.35, its depth scarcely as great as length of head without snout. Snout short, 

 projecting 66»/o of its length beyond mandible, 6.5-7.1 in head. Eye 3.7-4.3. Post- 

 orbital length 5.25—6.7. Maxillary abruptly pointed, reaching to or a little beyond 

 joint of mandible, i. 25-1. 4 in head. Mandible 1.4-1.5. Cheek moderately long and 



3. Dr. Leonard P. Schultz has ^kindly placed his data on this species in my hands. The proportions and counts used 

 in the Description are his and mine. 



