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^ Sardinia Poey. 



440. Clupea sagax i)cnyii8. C. (441) 



441. Clupea pseudohispanica Poey. W. (,441&.) . 



§ Poniolobus Rufiuosque. 



442. Clupea chrysochloris Rafinesqiie. V. S. (442) 



443. Clupea mediociis Mitchill. N. (443) 



444. Clupea vernalis Mif chill. N. S. Aua. (444) 



445. Clupea aestivalis Mitchill. N. S. Aua. (445) 



^S Alosa Cuvier. 



446. Clupea sapidissima Wilsou. N. S. Ana. (446) 



^ Harengula Cuv. &.Ya\. (123) 



447. Clupea sardina ' Poey. W. 



448. Clupea thrissina- Jordan «fe Gilheit. P. 



449. Clupea pensacolae Goode & Beau. S. W. (447) 



450. Clupea stolifera ' Joidau & Gilbert. P. 



115.— OPISTHONEMA^ Gill. (124) 



451. Opisthonema oglinum'' Le Sueur. S. W. (448) 



' Clupea aardina (Poey) Sardina de ley, " Pilch ard." 



Greenish, sides silvery, the scales ofteu shaded with light orange and dotted with 

 black ; a yellow scapular blotch ; lips and dorsal fin yellow ; older specimens with 

 faint orange streaks along the rows of scales ; tips of dorsal and caudal blackish. 

 Body comparatively deep and compressed ; lower jaw projecting ; teeth in broad 

 patches on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue; maxillary reaching nearly to middle 

 of eye, 2f in head. Eye very large, considerably longer than .snout, 2| in head; 

 cheeks and ojiercles striate; gill rakers not very long, comparatively few; scales 

 rather large, iirm, each crossed by several con.spicuous vertical ridges ; scales not ad- 

 licreut, readily deciduous. Insertion of dorsal little before that of veutrals at a 

 point considerably nearer snout than base of caudal. Dorsal a little higher than 

 long, its "free edge concave ; anal low ; pectorals nearly reaching ventrals, H in head. 

 Head, 3i ; depth, 3i ; D. 1, 15 ; A. 18. Lat. 1., 36. Ventral acutes about 15 + 10. L., 

 8 inches. Florida. Keys to Cuba; abundant in schools. Readily distinguished from 

 CI. pensacolce by the large eye and loose scales. 



{Uaretifiula sardina Poey, Memurias Cuba, II, 310, 1860; Harengula sardina Poey, 

 Enuni. Pise. Cubens., 1875, 147; ?? Clupea macrophthalma Ranz., Nov. Com. Ac. Sci. 

 Inst. Bonon., 1842, 320 ; ?? Clupea humeralis Cnv. &yn\.,XX,29^: not Clupea macroph- 

 Ihalma nor Clupea huiyieralis Giinther. Harengula sardina Goode &. Bean, Proc. \J. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1879, 152; Clupea sardina Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 106.) 



-Clupea ihrissina Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. 1882, 353. Capo San 

 Lucas. 



Clupea slolif era Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 339. Mazatlaji to 

 Panama. 



•» Vpisthonema oglinum (Le Sueur) Goode & Bean. 



Omit from the synonymy Clupea </irissa ^Osbeck, and add : 



{Megalojys oglina and AT. noiaia Le Sueur, Joiiru. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1, 3.59, 361 ; 

 Chaioiissns signifer DeKay, New York Fauna Fi.shes, 1842, 264 : Opisthonetna oglinum 

 Goode & Bean MSS.) « 



"The original basis of Clupea thrissa h. was a fisb brought by Lagerstrom from 

 China and described by Linnteus's pupil, Odhel, in the AmoMi. Academ., V, 251, as 

 Clupea ihrgza. This is a si)ecies of Dorosoma. To this latter genus belongs also tho 

 Clupea thrissa of Osbeck. lu the synonymy of Clupia Ihrissa of the teiith ediiion of the 

 Sjisfema Naturce, several references to Opist'nouema are included, while the Clupea ihrissa, 

 described in the twelfth edition as being received from Dr. Garden, is Dorosoma cepe- 

 dianum. The Clupea ihrissa of Broussonet and of most later authors is the Opislhonema, 

 but the Linmeau name must go with the original intention of its author. 



