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less intermediate between this species and eurystole. The gill rakers, which are difficult 

 to count because of the rather small size and poor condition of the specimens, seem to 

 be rather more numerous than in West Indian specimens. The shape of the dorsal, the 

 length of the pectoral, and the size of the eye all agree with specimens from the West 

 Indies, but the position of the anal is rather intermediate. 



Range and Habitat. This Anchovy apparently ranges from the West Indies to 

 Florida and the Gulf Coast, and probably to North Carolina. It has been reported for 

 New York (75 : 42), but none from New York and neighboring states has been avail- 

 able for study. This fish seems to be common, though probably not numerous, in the 

 West Indies. Northward it is apparently only a stray. Most of the specimens studied 

 were taken in shallow water. A few, one from off Melbourne Beach, Florida, and two 

 from Mississippi Sound, Miss., were taken in somewhat deeper water with trawls. It 

 is not known to enter brackish water. 



Synonyms and References: 



Engraulis ferfasciatus Poey, Memorias, 2, i860: 312 (orig. descr.; type local. Cuba; type MCZ 17955; '^^■ 

 several species); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 7, 1868: 391 (descr., San Domingo, Cuba; doubtfully 

 distinct from E. argyrophanus Cuvier and V alenciennes). 



Stolephorus ferfasciatus Swain and Meek, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. (1884), 1885: 34 (descr., Key West, 

 Florida, and Havana, Cuba); Henshall, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. (1889), 9, 1891: 373 (more abund. 

 at Marco than elsewhere in w. Florida); Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47 (i), 1896: 

 441 (descr., range); Evermann and Marsh, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. (1900), 20, 1902: 88 (descr., 

 range, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico); Metzlaar, Bijdr. Dierk. Amst., 1922: 136 (Curasao, taken with S. 

 hrozvnii and Jenkinsia lamprotaenia). 



Anchovia perfasciata lordan and Thompson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. (1904), 24, 1905: 233 (Tortugas, Florida); 

 Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 6j, 191 1 : 211 (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico); Nichols, New York .'\cad. 

 Sci., JO (2), 1929: 204, fig. 34 (diagn., distr., Puerto Rico); Hildebrand, Copeia, 1941 : 224 (Beaufort, 

 North Carolina). 



Anchoviella perfasciata Jordan and Scale, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 6"], 1926: 394 (descr. of "type" from 

 Cuba; range, Florida Keys to Cuba); Jordan, Manual Vert. Anim. NE U. S., ed. 13, 1929: 44 (descr., 

 range, New York to Cuba); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. .Atl. Cst., 1929: 70, fig. (range; strays north- 

 ward to N. Y.); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 82, 1930: 269 (Grenada, B. W. I.); Jordan, 

 Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 47 (range, Florida Keys to Jamaica); 

 Howell-Rivero, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 82, 1938: 172 (types MCZ 17955; 9 specimens, 82- 

 103 mm, includ. loo-mm specimen as holotype, Poey's No. 422); Longley and Hildebrand, Publ. 

 Carneg. Instn. Wash., 535, 1941 : 13 (Tortugas, Florida; taxon. notes); Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham 

 oceanogr. CoU., 8 (2), 1943: 1 16, fig. 49 (descr., cf. A. eurystole, range). 



Doubtful References: 



Engraulis argyrophanus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1848, 21: 49 (orig. descr.; t}'pe local, 

 "equitorial Atlantic"; cf A. hepsetus; specimen said to have been taken in equatorial Atlantic on a voy- 

 age from Europe to Batavia. The specimen, therefore, may not have been taken near America, and the 

 description is too inadequate for positive identification with any American species. Thus it seems inadvis- 

 able to use this name. Recent writers generally have referred specimens possessing a short maxillary, 

 taken between New Jersey and Cape Cod, to argyrophanus, a procedure that in the light of present 

 knowledge seems to be incorrect). 



Stolephorus miarchus Jordan, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus. (1884), 7, 1885: ro6 (Key West, Florida; indistingu. from 

 types of this species; probably young A. perfasciata). 



Anchovia perfasciata Nichols and Breder, Zoologica, N. Y., 9 (i), 1927: 42, fig. (diagn., vie. of New York 

 Cit}% range; distingu. characters of this species and of eurystole \argyrophanus'\ are not stated correctly; 



