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Clupea torresiensis (De Vis) Kent, Prelim. Rep. Food Fish Queensland, p. 11, 



1889 (type locality: Queensland) (name only) ; Great Barrier Reef, p. 370, 



1893 (reference). 

 Cliipeoi ranelayi (DeVis) Kent. Prelim. Rep. Food Fish Queensland, p. 11, 18S9 



(type locality: Queensland) (name only); Great Barrier Reef, p. 370, 



1893 (reference). 

 Harcngula stereolepis Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 22, p. 759, 



1897 (type locality: Torres Straits; Darnley Island; Southeast New 



Guinea ) . 

 Harengula punctata stereolepis Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 18, p. 332, 



1932 (reference). 

 Sardinella stereolepis Giltay, Mem. Mus. Roy. Nat. Hist. Belg., ser. 5, vol. 3, p. 16, 



fig. 7 (scale), 1933 (Pisang Island). 

 Clupea tnizun Kishinouye, Journ. Imper. Fisher. Bur., Tokyo, vol. 14, p. 



98, pi. 20, fig. 3, 1907 (type locality: Kiu Kiu Islands, Japan). 



Depth 3% to 41/8 ; head 3i/, to 32/3, width 2% to 214. Snout 31/3 

 to 3% in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 3%, equals snout, greater 

 than interorbital, adipose lid covers hind third of eye; maxillary 

 reaches % to 14 i^"^ ^J^, expansion 11/2 to 1% in eye, 2 to 2^^ in head 

 from snout tip ; interorbital 4% to 4%, little elevated, level ; cheek, 

 preopercle and opercle with radiating venules. Head above and 

 humeral region papillate to somewhat venulose. Gill rakers 14 + 31 

 or 32, finely lanceolate, % of gill filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 43 or 44 in median lateral series to caudal base; 10 or 11 

 transversely, 14 predorsal. Abdominal serrae 18 + 13 or 14. Scales 

 with 5 or 6 vertical striae, sometimes 2 or 3 more incomplete mar- 

 ginals. 



D. IV, 14, I, first branched ray 1% to 1% in total head length; A. 

 II, 14, 1, to 16, 1, first branched ray 4 to 4yV ; caudal 1% to 1%, deeply 

 forked and lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 to 3I/3; 

 pectoral 1% to 1% ; ventral 1% to 2%. 



Back steel to gray-blue or neutral gray. Under surface of head 

 gray-brown. Sides and under surface of body silvery white. Dorsal 

 and caudal with gray-brown tints. Lower fins whitish. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Seychelles, Ceylon, India, 

 Andamans, Nicobars, Singapore, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, 

 Japan, Queensland, New South Wales, Melanesia, Micronesia, 

 Polynesia. 



Clupea ovalis Bennett may have been intended for this species, at 

 least to judge from the short diagnosis : 



Body oval. Dorsal rays 18, median, anteriorly elevated. Anal 17. 

 Caudal 18 ? Pectoral 15. Ventral 7. A black humeral blotch. 



The imperfect account of Alausa argyrocKloiis may refer to the 

 present species : 



Snout pointed. D. 17, A. 19. Back, dorsal and caudal greenish, 

 rest of body silvery. Small blackish dot at base of first dorsal ray. 

 Length 153 mm. 



