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Argentina tonuk Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, pp. 365, 366, 1803 (type 



locality: Arabian Sea). 

 Clupea macrocephala LAcfipfeoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1803, pp. 426, 460, pi. 



14, fig. 1, 1803 (type locality: Martinique). 

 Glossodus forskalii Agassiz, Pise. Brasil. Spix, p. 49, 1829 (type locality: Bahia, 



Brazil). 

 Engraulis serious (Spix) Agassiz, Pise. Brasil. Spix, p. 49, pi. 23, fig. 2, 1829 



(name in synonymy). 

 Engraulis bahiensis (Spix) Agassiz, Pise. Brasil. Spix, p. 49, pi. 24. fig. 2, 1829 



(type locality: Bahia). 

 Ji&Mia parme Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 245, 1846 (type locality: 



Martinque, Bahia; Rio Janeiro). 

 Albiila gorecnsis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 248, 1846 (type 



locality : Goree, West Africa ) . 

 Albiila neoffuinaica Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 253, 1840 (type 



locality: New Guinea). 

 Albula seminuda Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 254, 1846 (type 



locality : New Guinea ) . 

 Albula erijtbrocheilos Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 540, 1846 (type 



locality: Friendly Islands). — Cantok, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, 



p. 1265, 1849 (Pinang). 

 Albula forsteri Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19. p. 256, 1846 (type locality: 



Tahiti ) .—Thiolliebe, Fauna Woodlark, p. 207, 18.57 (Woodlark Island). 

 Albula rostrata Gray, Cat. fish Gronow, p. 189, 1854 (type locality: American 



Ocean, Indian and Mediterranean Seas). 

 Albula virgata Jordan and Jordan, IMem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 



1, 1922 (type locality: Honolulu and Hilo). 



Depth 4 to 534 ; head 31/3 to 3%, width 1% to 234. Snout 21/6 to 3 

 in head; eye 4% to 4%, ly^ to 2 in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital, only- 

 narrow vertical aperture in adipose lid ; maxillary not quite reaching 

 eye, length 2% to 31/5 in head; teeth villiform, in bands in jaws, on 

 vomer and palatines; interorbital 3 to 4, nearly level. Gill rakers 

 VIII +vin to XII, low tubercles. 



Scales 69 or 70 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 or 7 more on 

 latter; 9 scales above, 6 or 7 below, 23 to 28 predorsal. Scales with 

 3 basal radiating striae; circuli very fine. 



D. IV or V, 14, I or 13, i, first branched ray 1% to 1% in head ; A. 

 Ill, 6, I, first branched ray 2% to 4; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 31/3 to 33/5 ; pectoral I2/3 to 1% ; ventral 21/3 to 21/5 ; caudal 3% to 32/3 

 in rest of body. 



Back gray-brown. Sometimes scale junctures on back show dark 

 longitudinal streaks or lines above lateral line, all following within 

 scale junctures. Sides and under surfaces bright or gleaming silvery 

 white. Dorsal and caudal pale gray or brown, other fins whitish. 



Red Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Mauritius, India, Ceylon, Pinang, Singa- 

 pore, East Indies, Japan, Korea, Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. 



