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215. Alosa alabamse Jordan and Evermann. Alabama shad. 



Gulf coast of United States; ascending streams. 



Alosa alahamx Jordan and Evermann, Rept, U. S. Fish Com., XXI, 

 1895 (1896), 203, Black Warrior River, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 



Genus 97. SARDINIA Poey. True sardines, 



Sardinia Poej', Memorias, II, 1861, 311 (<S. pseudohispanica Poey; not 



of Jordan and Evermann, which is Sardinella anchovia Cuvier and 



Valenciennes). 

 Sardina Antipa, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LXVIII, 1905 {Clupea 



pilchardus L.). 



216. Sardinia caerulea (Girard). California sardine. 



Pacific coast, from Puget Sound to Magdalena Bay; very abundant. 

 Meletta casrulea Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 138, 



San Francisco. 

 Alausa californica Gill, loc. cit., XIV, 1862, 281, California. 



217. Sardinia anchovia (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Sardinia de Espafia. 



West Indies, north to Cuba. 



Sardinella anchovia Cuvier and Valenciennea, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 



1847, 269, Rio Janeiro; Martinique. 

 Sardina '* pseudohispanica Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 311, Cuba. 



Genus 98. SARDINELLA Cuvier and Valenciennes. Smooth-headed sar- 

 dines. 

 Sardinella Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 1847, 261, 

 {S. aurita Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



218. Sardinella aurita Cuvier and Valenciennes. Smooth sardine; Sardina 



de Espaha. 

 Woods Hole to Florida; recorded from France; usually in rather deep 



water. 

 Sardinella aurita Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 



1847, 261, coast of France. 



Genus 99. HARENGULA Cuvier and Valenciennes. Scaled sardines. 



Harengula Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 1847, 280 

 (//. latula Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



219. Harengula sardina Poey. Sardina de Ley. 



West Indian fauna, north to Key West. 

 Harengula sardina Poey, Memorias, II, 1860, 310, Cuba. 

 Harengula callolepis Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, 152, 

 Bermuda. 



220. Harengula macropthalmus (Ranzani). Sardina Escamuda; White-bill; 



Finceo. 

 West Indies, Florida to Brazil. 

 Clupea macropthalma Ranzani, Nov. Com. Acad. Sci. Bonon., V, 1842, 



320, Brazil. 

 Harengula humeralis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 



1847, 293, Rio Janeiro; Bahia; Guadeloupe; San Domingo. 

 Alausa striata Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit; XX, 1847, 429, 



Guadeloupe; Bahia. 

 Alosa bishopi Miiller and Troschel, in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 



1848, 675, Barbados. 



221. Harengula clupeola Cuvier and Valenciennes. Cailleu. 



West Indies. 



Harengula clupeola Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 

 1847, 289, Guadeloupe Island, West Indies. 



222. Harengula maculosa Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



West Indies. 



Harengula maculosa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 



1847. 292, Martinique. 



Alosa apicdlis Miiller and Troschel, in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 



1848, 675, Barbados. 



" Recent pxaniination of Pocy's type by Alvin Ponlc shows that this flsh Is a Sardinia apparently iden- 

 tjcal with Clupea anchocia Cuvier and Valenciennes, not the Sardinella pseudohixpanica of Jordan and 

 £rermano, which apparently is the same as Sardinelia aurita Cuvier aod VaJenciennes. 



