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Body strongly compressed, the ventral outline much more strongly convex than 

 the dorsal outline, the depth increasing with age, 2.9-3.3 •" SL in specimens 75 mm 

 TL and upward. Head 3.0—3.5 in SL. Snout quite pointed, extending nearly its 

 full length beyond mandible, 5.5-8.0 in head. Eye 3.7—4.8. Postorbital part of 

 head i .55-1 -75 in head. Maxillary bluntly pointed or rounded distally, i. 72-1. 8 

 in head. Mandible i. 67-1. 73. Cheek nearly or quite as long as snout and eye, its 

 posterior angle narrow, about 30°. Gill rakers long, slender, close-set, increasing 

 greatly in number with age. 



Figure 59. Cetengraulis edentulus, 120 mm TL, 100 mm SL, from Havana, Cuba, USNM 35159- Drawn 

 by Louella E. Cable. 



Dorsal fin with the longest rays failing to reach tip of last ray if deflexed, its 

 origin generally about equidistant between anterior margin of eye and caudal base. 

 Anal with origin usually under last fourth of dorsal base, its base 4.3—4.6 in SL. 

 Pelvic inserted nearer to anal origin than to pectoral base, generally reaching fully 

 halfway to origin of anal. Pectoral usually failing to reach base of pelvic, 1.9—2.3 

 in head. Axillary scale of pectoral broad, with a somewhat thickened ventral edge, 

 3.25—3.7 in head. 



Color. In alcohol, bluish gray above; lower 75''/o of side silvery. Small specimens 

 with a silvery lateral band, becoming wider and less distinct with age, generally dis- 

 appearing at a length of about 100 mm. 



Size. Specimens as much as 165 mm {G.d in.) TL have been reported. 



Range and Habitat. Reported for the West Indies and the Atlantic coast of 

 Panama to southern Brazil. It ascends freshwater streams. 



Synonyms and References: 



Engraulis edentulus Cuvier, R^gne Anim., ed. 2, 2, 1829: 323 (orig. descr.; type local. Jamaica); Cuvier and 



Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 2r, 1848: 51 (descr., abund., distr.). 

 Cetengraulis edentulus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 7, 1868: 383 (descr., range) ; Jordan and Evermann, 



Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47(1), 1896: 450 (descr., range, synon.); Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. 



