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Subgenus Sardinella Valenciennes 



SARDINELLA ALLECLA. (Rafinesque) 



Clupecb allecia Rafinesque, Caratteri nuovi animali piante Sicilia, p. 57, 1810 



(type locality: Sicily). 

 Engraulis desmarestl Risso, Hist. Nat. Europe merid., Poissons, vol. 3, p. 455, 



1826 (type locality: Nice). 

 Clupea desmaresti Rrsso, Hist. Nat. Europe m6rid., Poissons, vol. 3, p. 479, 



pi. 9, fig. 22, 1826. 

 Clupea auro-vittata Swainbon, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. (293) 385, 1839 



(type locality: Sicily, Palermo). 

 ? Clupea caeruleo-vittata Richardson, Ichtli. China Japan, p. 305, 1846 (type 



locality: Chinese Seas; Canton). 

 Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 263, pi. 594, 1847 



(type locality: Gulf of Moree). — Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., ser. 8, 



vol. 19, p. 378, 1917 (Cape Cod to Rio Janeiro; Black Sea to Mediterranean; 



Indo Australian Archipelago, China, South Japan). — Fowlee, Bull. Amer. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 70, pt. 1, p. 163, fig. 64, 1936 (Brazil; Adriatic; 



Mediterranean). 

 Sardinella anchovia Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 269, 1847 (type 



locality: Rio Janeiro; Martinique). 

 Sardinella lemura Bleekee, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland, Indie, vol. 4, p. 50O, 



1853 (type locality: Batavia). 

 Clupea (Sardinella) lemuru Bleekee, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, pi. (9) 



267, fig. 1, 1866-72. 

 Clupea (Harengula) lemuru Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 108, 



1866-72 (Java). 

 Clupea lemuru Gxjnthee, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 430 1868 (type). 

 Sardinia pseudoMspanica Poet, Mem. hist. nat. Cuba, vol. 2, p. 311, 1858-61 



(type locality: Cuba). 

 Clupea longiceps (not Valenciennes) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 637, 1878 



(part) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 373, 1889. 

 Clupea (Harengula) longiceps Webee and Beaufort, Fishes Indo- Australian 



Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 82, 1913 (part). 

 Clupea bra sinensis Steindachnee, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 



vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 182, 1879 (type locality: Rio Janeiro). 

 Sardinella euxina Antipa, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 78. 



p. 46, pi. 3, figs. 12-18, 1806 (type locality: Coast of Constanza). 



Depth 32/3 ; head 3%, width 21/2. Snout 3% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 4%, 1% in snout, greater than interorbital, adipose lid 

 posteriorly covers i/^ of eye; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 

 1% in eye, length 2i/4 in head from snout tip; front of upper jaw 

 without distinct notch medially ; teeth obsolete or absent ; interorbital 

 5, very slightly elevated, level medially ; few weak venules on cheek, 

 head otherwise smooth. Gill rakers 93 + 168, finely setiform, nearly 

 equal eye ; gill filaments % gill rakers. 



Scales 43 in median lateral series to caudal base and 5 more on 

 latter; 13 transversely, 17 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 12 + 15, 

 Scales with 4 or 5 transverse vertical striae, incomplete medially 

 on scale; circuli all as fine parallel basal striae, none apically, with 

 uneven cutaneous edge. 



