[35] CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF NORTH AMK RICA. 



Family XXXVIII.— CHANID^.' 



111.— CHANOSi Lac6pMe. 



435. Chauos chanos ' Forskul. P. 



Family XXXIX.— CLUPEID^. 



112.— DUSSUMIERIA' Ciivier & Valenciennes. 



436. Dussumieria stolifera ^ Jordan & Gilbert. W. 



113.— ETRUMEUS^Bleeker. (120) 



437. Etrumeus teres DeKay. S. (437) 



114.— CLUPEA LinnsBus. (122,123) 

 $ Clupea. 



438. Clupea hareugus Linnaeus. G. N. Eu. (437) 



439. Clupea mirabilis^Girard. A.C. (438,440) 



' Family CHANID.^. 

 Chipeoid fishes, with the body oblong, compressed, covered with small, firm, ad- 

 herent scales. Lateral line distinct. Abdomen broad and flattish; snout depressed; 

 month small, anterior, the lower jaw with a small sympbyseal tubercle; no teeth. 

 Premaxillary joined to upper anterior edge of maxillary. Gill membranes broadly 

 united; free from the isthmus. Branchiostegals 4 ; psendo-branchiaj well developed. 

 An accessory branchial organ in a cavity behind the gill cavity. Dorsal fin opjiosite 

 theventrals; anal fin shorter than dorsal. Mncus membrane of oisophagus raised 

 into a spiral fold. Intestine with many convolutions. Coloration silvery. Large 

 fishes of the warmer parts of the Pacific. One genus and two species known ( Clupeidw; 

 group Chanina Gunther, VII, 473). 



Genus Chanos Lac6pfede. 

 ( Lutodeira Kuhl. ) 



(Lac^p^de Hist. Nat. Poiss, V, 395, 1803 ; type Miigil chano? Forekal = Chanos ara- 

 bicus Lac^pMe.) Characters of the genus inclnded above. {Xavo?, the open month.) 

 Chanos chanos (Forskal). Pacific and Indian Oceans ; abnudant in the Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia and sonthward to Panama. 



(Altigil chanos Forskal Descr. Anim., 74 ; Mugil salmoneus Forster, Bloch &, Schnei- 

 der, 121 ; Chanos salmoneus Giinther, VII, 473, and of recent authors generally.) 

 2 DussuMiEKiA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



(Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 467 ; type Dussumieria acuta Cnv. & Val.) 



Body rather elongate, somewhat compressed ; the abdomen ronnded and without 

 serratures. Mouth terminal, of moderate wulth, formed as in Clupea, but the maxil- 

 lary more slender. Very small teeth in patches on jaws, palatines, pterygoids, and 

 tongue. Scales cycloid, entire, very deciduous. Branchiostegals numerous, very 

 slender. Ventrals inserted below middle or jjosterior part of dorsal ; anal low, of 

 moderate length. Pseudobrauchiae well developed ; pyloric coeca numerous. (Dedi- 

 cated to M.Dussumier, a correspondent of Valenciennes, and the original discoverer 

 of the typical species.) 



^Dussumieria stolifera Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu-., 1884, 25. Key West, 

 Fla. 



■•The name Etrumeas is from Etrumeiwasi, the Japanese name of Etrumeus micropus. 

 The genera, Etrumeus and Spratelloides, seem scarcely separable from Dussumieria. 



^ Spratelloides hryoporus Cope, the ty^jes of which species I have examined, seems to 

 be identical with Clupea mirahilis. 



