ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA — SCHULTZ 169 



CRENICICHLA SAXATIUS (LInnaeaa) 



Sparus saxatilis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 278, 1758 (Surinam) 



(ref. copied). 

 Crenicichla saxatilis Regan, Proc, Zool. Soc. London, 1906, pt. 1, p. 391 (Rio 



Grande do Sul to Venezuela; Trinidad). 



Two specimens, 91 and 112 mm., Caripito, William Beebe, May 7, 1942. 



CRENICICHLA GEAYI Pellegrin 



Matoguaro 



Crenicichla geayi Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 9, p. 123, 1903 

 (Venezuela); Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 16, p. 375, 1903 (Venezuela). — 

 Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905, pt. 1, p. 161 (near Bogotd; Rfo 

 Orinoco). — Eigenmann, Indiana Univ. Stud., vol. 7, No. 44, p. 13, 1920 

 (Concejo, Rio Tiquirito; Isla del Euro; Maracay, Rfo Bue; Rfo Castafio — 

 all Venezuela). — Pearse, Univ. Wisconsin Studies, No. 1, pp. 20, 43, 1920 

 (Isla del Euro and Rfo Castafio, Lake Valencia, Venezuela). — Rohl, Fauna 

 descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 384, 1942 (Venezuela). 



The records for this species for the upper Orinoco system should 

 be rechecked to determine if they have been confused with macroph- 

 thalma. 



crenicichla WALLACn Regan 



Crenicichla wallacii Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905, pt. 1, p. 163, pi. 14, 

 fig. 2 (Rio Essequibo; Rfo Negro). 



CRENICICHIA MACROPHTHALMA Heckel 



Crenicichla macrophthabna Heckel, Ann. Wien. Mus. Naturg., vol. 2, p. 427, 

 1840 (Rio Negro).— Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877, p. 469 

 (Calabozo).— Sachs, Aus den Llanos, 1879, p. 127 (Calabozo).— Eigenmann 

 AND Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 70, 1891 (Orinoco). 



The following collections were made in Venezuela during 1942: 



U.S.N. M. No. 121658, 2 specimens, 42 and 50 mm. in standard length, Rfo 

 Gudrico and tributaries between San Sebastian and San Casimiro, L. P. Schultz, 

 G. Zuloaga, William Phelps, Jr., R. Sherman, May 12. 



3 specimens, 41 to 63 mm., near Caripito, Dr. William Beebe. 



The above specimens are referred to this species with some uncer- 

 tainty since the numbers of fin rays do not exactly agree and both 

 collections may represent new subspecies of macro phthalma. The 

 specimens from the Rio Guarico have the following counts: Dorsal 

 rays XXI, 13, XXII, 12; anal rays III, 7 and III, 8 while those from 

 near Caripito have XXII, 11; XXII, 12; XXII, 12; anal rays 111,9; 

 III, 9; III, 9. The number of scale rows are about 62 to 64 in both 

 collections and 26 scales in a zig-zag row around caudal peduncle. 

 The coloration in all specimens consists of about 7 blackish doubled 

 crossbars, the middle of each dark bar is pale; oceUated caudal spot 

 prominent; a dark band past eye to end of opercle, thence represented 

 along anterior midside by intensification of pigment in each bar, 

 interspaces pale; no humeral spot; caudal fin slightly barred or plain. 



