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U.S.N. M. No. 119795, holotype, Estanques Bay, U. S. S. Niagara February 20, 

 1925. 

 U.S.N. M. No. 119796, 3 paratypes bearing same data. 



ANCHOVIELLA GUIANENSIS (Eigenmann) 



Stolephorus guianensis Eigenmann, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 5, p. 447, pi. 62, 



fig. 6, 1912 (Bartica Rocks, British Guiana). 

 Anchoviella guianensis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 83, p. 406, 



1931 (Cano de Guanoco, Venezuela). — Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. 



Coll., vol. 8, art. 2, p. 123, fig. 52, 1943 (Venezuela). 



ANCHOVIELLA BLACEBURNI HUdebrand 



Anchoviella blackburni Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 8, art. 2, 

 p. 129, fig. 57, 1943 (Estanques (not "Estauques") Bay and Jacuque Point, 

 Gulf of Venezuela). 



U.S.N. M. No. 121775, 1 specimen, 37 mm. in standard length, mouth of Cafio de 

 Sagua, 25 km. north of Sinamaica, March 12, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 127606, a paratype, Estanques Bay, U. S. S. Niagara, February 

 20, 1925. 



U.S.N.M. No. 119794, 9 paratypes, Jacuque Point, U. S. S. Niagara, January 

 26, 1925. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121776, 3 specimens, 31.5 to 33.5 mm., Salinas Bay, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, April 4, 1925. 



67 specimens, 18 to 22 mm., lagoons 15 km. north of Maracaibo, F. F. Bond, 

 April 6, 1938. 



The following counts were made: Anal iii, 23 in 2 specimens; 

 pectoral rays ii, 14-ii, 14; gill rakers 12 + 1 + 17 in 3 specimens and 

 12 + 1 + 18 and 12 + 1 + 16 in 1 each, vertebrae 42 in 1 specimen. 



ANCHOVIELLA PALLIDA (SUrks) 



Anchovia pallida Starks, The fishes of the Stanford expedition to Brazil, p. 9, 



pi. 1, 1913 (Pard, Brazil). 

 Anchoviella venezuelae Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 83, pp. 



406-407, fig. 6, 1931 (Cafio de Guanoco, mouth of Rfo San Juan, Venezuela). 

 Anchoviella pallida Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 8, art. 2, 



p. 134, fig. 59, 1943 (Cafio de Guanoco, Venezuela, to Pard, Brazil). 



Genus PTERENGRAULIS Giinther 



Pterengraulis GtJnther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 7, 

 p. 398, 1868. (Genotype, Clupea atherinoides Linnaeus.) 



The genus lacks gill rakers on the posterior side of the first two gill 

 arches, the third may have a few on the upper limb, whereas the 

 fourth arch has a full set of rakers on its posterior side. The anal 

 origin is notably in advance of a vertical line through dorsal origin. 



PTERENGRAULIS ATHERINOIDES (Linnaeus) 



Clupea atherinoides Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 523, 1766 



(Surinam) (ref. copied). 

 Pterengraulis atherinoides Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 83, 



p. 407, 1931 (Cafio de Guanoco, Venezuela). — Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham 



