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caudal. Lips and chin also dotted. Occiput dark brown. Dark 

 spot at base of each anal ray. Length 58 mm. (McCulloch.) 

 New South Wales. 



Genus CORICA Buchanan-Hamilton 



Corica Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 253, 383, 1822. (Type, Corica 



sohorna Buchanan-Hamilton, monotypic.) 

 Clapeichthys Bleekkr, Nat, Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 9, p. (260) 274, 1855. 



(Type, Clupeichthys goniognathus Bleelier, monotypic.) 



Body elongate or partly elongate, belly little compressed. Back 

 rounded. Teeth on jaws, palatines, and tongue. Gill rakers 19 to 22. 

 Branchiostegals 6. Scales moderate, thin, smooth or nearly so. 

 Dorsal rays 13 to 16. Anal rays grouped as two fins, second fin 

 formed by two thickened rays, cleft to base and much longer than 

 last rays of first anal fin. Ventral origin below dorsal origin. 



Small herrings of the rivers and shores of India and the East 

 Indies, known by the presence of two anal fins. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



c*. Corica. Mouth normal ; teeth very minute ; gill rakers about 22, slender, 

 elongate. 

 h\ Dorsal rays 14 or 15. 

 g\ Scales 40 to 42; scutes 10 or 11 before ventrals; dorsal origin midway 



between front eye edge and caudal base soboma 



c^. Scales 38 ; scutes 7 or 8 before ventrals ; dorsal origin nearer snout tip 



than caudal base perakensis 



b^ Dorsal rays 13 or 14; dorsal origin midway between front eye edge and 

 caudal base. 



d^. Scales 36; scutes 9 or 10 before ventrals bleekeri 



d". Scales 32 to 34 ; scutes 10 or 11 before ventrals laciniata 



a^ Clupeichthys Premaxillary prominent, forms blunt angle with rather con- 

 vex, ascending maxillary, beyond margin of which protrude points of 

 rather long teeth ; gill rakers short, thick goniognathus 



Subgenus CoRiCA Buchanan-Hamilton 



CORICA SOBORNA Buchanan-Hamilton 



Corica sohorna Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 253, 283, 1822 (type 

 locality: Mahanada River).— Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 

 452, 1868 (note).— Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, p. 385.— Day, Fishes 

 of India, pt. 4, p. 642, pi. 162, fig. 5, 1878 (Arissa and Bengal) ; Fauna British 

 India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 378, fig. 116, 1889.— H. M. Smith, Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Siam, vol. 9, p. 85, 1933 (Bangpakong R.). — Sm'ATTi, Index Fish, Siam, 

 p. 9, 1937 (Maenam Bang Plasoi). 



Clupea soMnm Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. Hardwicke, vol. 2, 1832 (Buchanan- 

 Hamilton's fig.). 



Corica guborni Gray, op. cit., pi. 91, figs. 7, 8, 



Pellona soborni Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 325, 1847 (on Gray). 



Corica argentata Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 294, 1839 (on 

 Buchanan-Hamilton) . 



