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N. Y., 24. (l), 1939: 25, 35 (numerous in Gatun Locks, Canal Zone; erroneously reported from Mira- 



flores Locks, Canal Zone, which is A. curtd). 

 Anchoviella niitchiUi Jordan and Scale (in part; not of Cuvier and Valenciennes), Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 



6^, 1926: 405 (part of Cuban specimens, A.farvd). 

 Anchoviella farva Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Coram. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 49 (ref to orig. 



descr.). 

 Anchoa farva Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 8 (2), 1943 : 83, fig. 35 (refs., descr., relation., range); 



Schultz, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., gg, 1949: 43 (synon.; Venezuela; notes, counts). 



Doubtful Reference: 



Anchoviella parva Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 83, 1931 : 392 (98-mm specimen from Trinidad much 

 larger than any seen by me; also anal rays more numerous). 



Figure 34. Anchoa januaria, 75 ram TL, from Pernambuco, Brazil, MCZ 18012. Drawn by Alice C. Mullen. 



Anchoa januaria (Steindachner) 1879 

 Figure 34 



Study Material. A total of 28 specimens, 30-75 mm TL, from Amuay' and 

 Salinas bays, Gulf of Venezuela; Pernambuco (Recife), Natal, and Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil; in USNM and MCZ collections. 



Distinctive Characters. From both subspecies of mitchilli, januaria differs in a some- 

 what greater number of gill rakers, fewer anal rays, the more posterior position of the 

 anal fin, and the more strongly projecting snout. Compared to both mitchilU and farva., 

 it has a shorter and blunter maxillary; and from parva it differs further in having more 

 numerous gill rakers on the upper limb and in the slightly more posterior position of 

 the anal fin. It differs from pectoralis in having fewer pectoral and anal rays and in the 

 more numerous gill rakers. 



7. Schultz {ig: 44) has claimed that the somewhat mutilated specimens from Amuay Bay, Gulf of Venezuela, identified 

 by me as this species, are A. blackburni. 



