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Stolephorus hrowni Bleekeb, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 57, 1865 

 (Amoy.) 



Stolephorus {Stolephorus) hrownii BuBacKER, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amster- 

 dam, ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 294, 1868 (Rio, Bintang). 



f Engraulis carpentariae DeVis, Proc. Linn. See. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 

 320, 1883 (type locality: Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria). — Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, p. 57, 1SS4 (compiled). 



Anchovia apiensis Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25 (1905), p. 187, 

 fig. 3, 1906 (type locality: Apia, Samoa). 



Engraulis apiensis GIjntheb, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 6, p. 378, 1909 

 (Samoa). — Fowleb, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 33, 1928 (type of 

 Anchovia apiensis). — Heree, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 353, zool, ser., 

 vol. 21, p. 33, 1936 (Fiji; Samoa). 



Engraulis koreanus Kishinouye, Journ. Imp. Fisher. Bur. Tokyo, vol. 14, p. 101, 

 1907 (type locality: Korea). 



Anchovia koreana Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, p. 167, 

 1909 (Takao). 



Stolephorus koreamis Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 

 (Ruganho, Korea), 



Depth 4 to 4%; head 4, width 21/5 to 21/3. Snout 41/2 to 434 in 

 head ; eye 2>y^ to 3%, greater than snout or interorbital, covered with 

 adipose membrane ; maxillary reaches gill opening, expansion 2% in 

 eye, length 1 to V^/s in head ; row of fine teeth on each maxillary and 

 narrow bands on vomer and palatines; interorbital 31/^ to 4, slightly 

 convex. Gill rakers 17 to 19 + 21 to 23, lanceolate, greater than gill 

 filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 33 to 35 (pockets) in median lateral series to caudal base 

 and 3 more on latter, very caducous; 7 to 9 scales transversely, 18 to 

 21? predorsal. Pectoral axillary scale % of fin; ventral axillary 

 scale % of fi'f^- Abdominal serrae 4 to 7 denticles between pectoral 

 and ventral bases, none on postventral. Venulose area at shoulder. 

 Scales with 7 vertical striae; circuli very fine, as parallel transverse 

 striae. 



D. Ill, 11, 1 to ni, 14, 1, inserted little nearer caudal base than front 

 eye edge, third simple ray 1% to 1% in head ; A. iii, 17, i to iii, 19, i, 

 inserted opposite last % in depressed dorsal length, first branched 

 ray l%o to 2 in head; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; 

 pectoral V-/2 to 1% ; ventral 2 to 2i/^ ; caudal 3% to 3% in combined 

 head and body, forked. 



Largely pale brown. Faint silvery lateral band, less than eye in 

 width, widest on caudal peduncle. Iris gray. Dorsal and caudal 

 gray, other fins whitish. 



Arabia, Zanzibar, Mauritius, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philip- 

 pines, China, Formosa, Korea, Polynesia. Known by its maxillary 

 reaching the gill opening and 4 to 7 abdominal denticles between the 

 pectoral and ventral bases. Weber and Beaufort's figure shows 14 

 abdominal denticles before the ventral origin of which 2 anterior 



