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Body quite strongly compressed, its depth 4.8-5.5 in SL. Head 4.0-4.6 in SL, its 

 depth equal to postorbital part of head and about half of eye. Snout very short, 

 projecting little beyond mandible, about 5.0-7.0 in head. Eye 3.5-4.5. Postorbital 

 part of head 1.6-1.9 in head. Maxillary slightly expanded and rounded distally, 

 extending about half of diameter of eye beyond posterior rim of orbit, not quite to joint 

 of mandible, 1.6-2.0 in head. Cheek only a little longer than eye, the posterior angle 

 about 60°. 



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

 about equidistant between caudal base and middle of eye. Anal originating about 

 under origin of second third of dorsal base, its base 3.75-4.25 in SL. Pelvic reaching 

 more than halfway to anal. Pectoral failing to reach base of ventral by somewhat less 

 than diameter ot eye, 1.25— 1.6 in head. 



Color. In alcohol, pale (originally preserved in formalin), with only a suggestion 

 of a narrow silvery lateral band. A row of dark spots along base of anal, continued as a 

 median dark line posterior to anal ; a similar row along base of dorsal to upper lobe of 

 caudal. 



Range. Known only from the Gulf of Venezuela, where it was taken in Estauques 

 Bay and Jacque Point. 



References : 



Anchoviella blackburni Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 8 (2), 1943: 129, fig. 57 (orig. descr.; 

 type local. Jacque Point, Gulf of Venezuela; type USNM 1 19793; cf. Anchoa parva [Meek and Hilde- 

 brand] and Anchoviella lepdentostole [Fowler]); Schultz, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., gg, 1949: 48 (ref., 

 counts). 



Anchoviella {Amplovd) jamesi (Jordan and Seale) 1926 



Study Material. Two paratypes, about 47 and 37 mm TL, 'i^d and 32 mm SL, 

 from fresh water as listed under Range:, MCZ 17783 and 17784, respectively. 



Distinctive Characters. This species has an extremely small mouth for an anchovy 

 and is thus related to A. balboae Jordan and Seale of the Pacific coast of Panama, which 

 was made the type of the genus Amplova Jordan and Seale, herein regarded as a sub- 

 genus. But it differs from A. balboae in having fewer anal rays, fewer gill rakers, a more 

 posteriorly placed dorsal fin, and apparently a more slender body. A. balboae has 

 24—27 anal rays and 19—21 +29—35 S^'' rakers; its dorsal origin is about equidistant 

 between the base of caudal and middle of eye; and the depth in specimens 75— 100 mm 

 TL is 3.5—4.1 in SL. 



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

 based on study specimens 36 and 32 mm SL, respectively. 



Body: depth 22.2, 23.8. Eye: diameter 5.8, 6.6. 



Head: length 22.2, 22.7. Postorbital: distance .'', 12.8. 



Snout: length 3.04, 3.1. Maxillary: length 11.6, 11.9. 



