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Axillary scale of pectoral about 66"/o of length of fin (without filament), 2.8—3.5 

 in head. 



Color. In alcohol pale. Side of head and lower part of side silvery. Silvery lateral 

 band as wide as eye (often dusky in specimens preserved in formalin). Upper parts of 

 head and back with numerous punctulations not arranged in longitudinal series. 



Size. The longest specimen seen (type) is 75 mm (3 in., 61 mm SL). 



Range. This species, as here understood, is known from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, and Trinidad. 



Synonyms and References: 



Anchovia filifera Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 191 5: 524, fig. 2 (orig. descr.; type local. Port-of-Spain, 

 Trinidad; type ANSP 45080; cf. A. plalyargyrea = A.lyolepis and A. choerostoma. Gill rakers given as 

 25 + 22, total anal rays 25, depth 4.75. My counts and measurements give gill rakers 18 + 22, anal 

 rays 23, depth 5.0. Orig. fig. shows mandible projecting too far in advance of vertical from anterior 

 margin of eye; anal fin rather too far back, its origin actually well in advance of vertical from base of last 

 dorsal ray). 



Anchoviella filifera Fowler, Proc. biol. See. Wash., ^J, 1930: 146 (Jamaica); Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, 

 Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish (1928), 2, 1930: 50 (ref.). 



Anchoviella longipinna Beebe and Tee- Van, Zoologica, N. Y., Jo(i), 1928: 48, fig. (orig. descr.; type local. 

 Bizoton, Haiti; type NYZS 7460; also Port-au-Prince, Haiti; type material not seen; descr. and fig. 

 agree well with A. filifera from Jamaica and Trinidad). 



Anchoa filifera Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 5(2), 1943: 105, fig. 45 (synon., descr., range). 



Genus Anchoviella Fowler 1 9 1 i 



Anchoviella Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 42, 191 1 : 211; genotype by original designation, Engraulis 



perfasciatus Poey 1861. 

 Amplova Jordan and Seale, Copeia, 1925: 31; type species Anchovia irevirostris Meek and Hildebrand 1923 



equals Amplova balboae Jordan and Seale 1925. 



Characters. Body usually slender, its depth less than 2 5'/o of SL (except in -pal- 

 lida^ 2 6-2 8. 5 "/o). Gill rakers usually fewer than 35 on lower limb (except in pal- 

 lida, which may have as many as 45), not known to increase in number with age. 

 Anal fin rather short, with fewer than 30 rays, its origin usually under or posterior to 

 middle of dorsal base (somewhat in advance of middle of dorsal in blackburni and 

 jamesi). Vertebrae 39—45. 



Size. Although a maximum length of 155 mm has been reported for eurystole, 

 the largest in the collections studied is only 1 30 mm TL, and the other species are 

 smaller. 



Remarks. Anchoviella obviously is closely related to Anchoa, from which it differs 

 in the shorter and distally square-to-round maxillary. This structure, variable in length 

 in both genera, may reach only a little beyond the vertical from the posterior margin 

 of the eye, as in Anchoviella jamesi, or it may reach to the joint of the mandible, as in 

 Anchoviella eurystole. Indeed, Jordan and Seale (6: 31) erected a new genus, Amplova, 

 on the basis of the very short maxillary in A. balboae, a species common on the Pacific 



