FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 561 



U.S.N.M. No. 44891. Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 19S?-225 mm. 4 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 49506. Tokyo. Albatross collection. Length, 163-215 mm. 2 



examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 57624. Japan. P. L. Jouy. Length, 192 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59803. Urado, Japan Dr. H. M. Smith. Length, 155 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71048. Tokyo market. Albatross collection. 1906. Length, 190-198 



mm. 3 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 71050. Japan. Albatross collection. Length, 225 mm. 

 U.S.N.jM. No. S2607. Wakanoura, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 95-104 



mm. 2 examples. 



Family STOLEPHORIDAE 



Body elongated, belly rounded. Jaws nearly or quite equal. Mouth 

 terminal, rather small, bordered by small premaxillary and long max- 

 illary; maxillary broad and rounded behind, with 2 supplemental 

 bones. Small teeth in jaws, on vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue, 

 which deciduous or may be absent, none caninelike. Gill membranes 

 sei^arate, free from isthmus. Gill rakers very fine and slender, not 

 numerous. Pseudobranchiae present. Branchiostegals 6 to 15. Scales 

 moderate or large, thin, deciduous. Belly without scutes and covered 

 with surrounding scales. Fins small ; anal short. 



Small clupeids of tropical or subtropical seas, well distinguished 

 as the round herrings, as their bellies rounded and without scutes or 

 spines. 



ANALYSIS OF GENERA 



a\ Dorsal inserted above veutrals ; teeth feeble or absent ; dorsal with less than 

 18 branched rays. 

 6\ Dorsal origin nearer snout tip than caudal ; anal rays 9 to 13_ Stolephorus 

 b'\ Dorsal origin nearer caudal than snout tip ; anal rays 15 to 17 



Dussunaieria 



«". Dorsal well before ventrals; teeth moderate; dorsal branched rays 18 to 29; 



anal raj's 11 Etrumeus 



Genus STOLEPHORUS Lacepede 



StoIepJioriis Laoep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 381, 1803. (Type, Atherina 



japonica Houttuyn, designated by Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 



16, p. 272, 1883.) 

 SprateUokles Bleekee, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Haring.), vol. 24, pp. 12, 



29, 1852. (Type, Clupea argyrotaeniata Bleeker= Clupea gracilis Schlegel, 



monotypic.) 

 Gilchristella Fowlee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 365, 1985. 



(Type, Spratelloides aestuarius Gilchrist, orthotypic. ) 



Body elongate, somewhat compressed. Tail very short. Snout 

 conic. Adipose eyelids mostly obsolete. Jaws nearly or quite equal. 

 Mouth cleft small, bordered by elongate premaxillary and broad 

 maxillary, which rounded behind and with 2 supplemental bones. 

 No teeth, or if present very minute or deciduous in jaws, on vomer, 



