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Anchoviella spinifera Jordan and Scale, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 6^, 1926: 409 (descr., Cachoeira, Bra- 

 zil; "Panama" presumably Pacific coast; "West Indies" in range); Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. 

 U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 50 (range); Fowler, Arqu. Zool. estad. Sao Paulo, j, 1941 : 134 

 (refs., Brazil). 



Anchoa spinifer Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 5 (2), 1943: 38, fig. 10 (synon., descr., range, 

 local abund.). 



Anchoa argenteus Schultz 1949 

 Figure 28 



Study Material. Known only from the type, ca. 115 mm TL (caudal fin damaged), 

 94 mm SL, from Lake Maracaibo, off Pueblo Viejo, Venezuela. 



Distinctive Characters. This species is closely related to A. spinifer., with which it 

 agrees in the shape and position of the dorsal fin, the long low head, the long narrow 

 cheek, and in many other respects. But it differs significantly from that species (so far 

 as can be determined from a single specimen) in having fewer anal rays, in a slightly 

 greater number of gill rakers on the lower limb, in the longer mandible, in the shorter 

 pectoral fins, and in the absence of a dark margin on the caudal fin. 



Figure 28. Anchoa argenteus, type specimen, 94mm TL, from Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela, USNM 121777. 

 Drawn by A. M. Awl. 



Description. Proportional dimensions in per cent of standard length, and counts, 

 based on the type specimen, 94 mm SL. 



Body: depth 22.5. 

 Head: length 26.5. 

 Snout: length 4.25. 

 Eye: diameter 5.55. 

 Postorbital: distance 18.5. 

 Maxillary: length 23.5. 

 Mandible: length 20.6. 



Anal fin: length of base 32. 

 Pectoral fin: length 15.5. 



Scales: ca. 43. 



Gill rakers : 14+19. 



Fin rays: dorsal 16; anal 32; pectoral 13. 



