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LYCENGRAULIS GROSSIDENS (CuTler) 



Engraulis grossidens Cuvier, in Spix and Agassiz, Selecta genera et species piscium 

 . . . Brasiliara . . ., p. 50, pi. C, 1829 (Rio de Janeiro). 



Engraulis Janeiro Spix, in Spix and Agassiz, Selecta genera et species piscium 

 . . . Brasiliam . . ., pi. 24, fig. 1, 1829. 



Lycengraulis grossidens Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 8, art. 2, 

 fig. 64, 1943 (Gulf of Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M. No. 121759, 9 specimens, mouth of Cano de Sagua, 25 km. north of 

 Sinamaica, March 12, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No, 127620, 8 specimens, 31 to 142 mm., oflF south coast of the Gulf, 

 U. S. S. Niagara, November 15, 1925. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121760, 2 specimens, 26.5 to 52 mm., Point Macolla, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, April 19, 1925. 



Genus CETENGRAULIS Giinther 



Cetengraulis Gunther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 7, 

 p. 383, 1868. (Genotype, Engraulis edentulus Cuvier.) 



CETENGRAULIS EDENTULUS (Curler) 



Engraulis edentulus Cuvier, Le rSgne animal, vol. 2, p. 323, 1817; ed, 2, vol. 2, 



p. 323, 1829 (Jamaica) (ref. copied). 

 Cetengraulis edentulus Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 8, art. 2, 



p. 155, fig. 71, 1943 (Gulf of Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M. No. 121780, 165 specimens, 27.5 to 66 mm. in standard length, the 

 mouth of Cano de Sagua, 25 km. north of Sinamaica, March 12, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 127677, 2 specimens, 56 and 64.5 mm., Amuay Bay, Gulf of 

 Venezuela, P. P. Blackburn, of the U. S. S. Niagara, December 9, 1924. 



U.S.N.M. No. 127682, 1 specimen, 72 mm., from south coast, Gulf of Venezuela, 

 P. P. Blackburn, of the U. S. S. Niagara, November 15, 1925. 



The intestine is greatly coiled in both edentulus and mysticetus and 

 should prove to be a character of generic significance in this famUy. 

 The intestine and peritoneum are generally black. 



The following counts were made on the Venezuelan specimens: 

 41 vertebrae in 4 specimens and 42 in 1; anal rays iii,20 in 1, iii,21 

 in 2, and iii,22 in 6 specimens. 



Suborder Salmoniformes 

 Family SALMONIDAE 



Genus SALMO Linnaeus 

 Trout 



Salmo Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 308, 1758. (Genotype, Salmo 

 solar Linnaeus.) 



SALMO GAIRDNERn Richardson 



Rainbow trout; Trucha de arco iris 



Salmo gairdnerii Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, vol. 3, p. 221, 1836 

 (Columbia River at Fort Vancouver, North America). 



