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Body rather short, deep, and well compressed; dorsal profile more strongly convex 

 than ventral profile. Head short, deep, its depth equal to its postorbital length and half 

 of eye. Snout rather short, projecting a little less than a third of its length beyond 

 mandible, 5.8 in head. Eye small, 4.7. Postorbital 1.6 in head. Maxillary fairly 

 short, reaching joint of mandible, broad and abruptly pointed, 1.25 in head. Man- 

 dible 1.3. Cheek as long as snout and eye, its posterior angle about if . Gill rakers 

 at angle nearly as long as eye. 



Dorsal fin high anteriorly, its longest rays reaching far beyond tip of last ray if 

 deflexed, its origin an eye's diameter nearer to tip of snout than to base of caudal. Anal 

 rather long and low, its origin half of an eye's diameter posterior to end of dorsal base, 

 and about equidistant between base of caudal and base of pectoral, its base 4.0 in SL. 

 Pelvic fin large, shorter than pectoral by diameter of pupil, extending about 66 '/o of 

 the distance to origin of anal, inserted a little nearer to joint of mandible than to 

 origin of anal. Pectoral reaching base of pelvic, 1.5 in head. Axillary scale of pec- 

 toral a little more than half of the fin length, 2.7 in head. 



Color. Old preserved specimen grayish brown above. Lower two-thirds of side 

 silvery; no lateral band and no punctulations visible. 



Range. Known only from Beesley's Point, New Jersey. 



Synonyms and References: 



Engraulis duodecim Cope, Trans. Amer. philos. Soc, i"J (2), 1869: 405 (orig. descr.; type local. Beesley's 



Point, New Jersey; type ANSP 1363). 

 Anchovia Juodecim Fowler, Rep. N. J. St. Mus. (1905), 1906: iii (descr.); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. 



Philad., 63, 191 1 : 219; Fowler, Proc. bid. Soc. Wash., JJ, 1920: 148. 

 Anchoa duodecim Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 5 (2), 1943: 46 (synon., descr. based on type). 



Anchoa trinitatis (Fowler) 1915 

 Figure 29 



Study Material. A total of 1 9 specimens, including the type, from Trinidad and 

 Venezuela, ANSP, UMMZ, USNM. 



Description. Proportional dimensions in per cent of standard length, and counts, 

 based on 10 specimens from Study Material, 55— no mm TL. 



Body: depth 22-25.6. 

 Head: length 24.3-27. 

 Snout: length 3.9-4.35. 

 Eye: diameter 6.75—7.6. 

 Postorbital: distance 11. 7-1 3.3. 

 Maxillary: length 16.6-22. 

 Mandible: length 1 6.4-1 9. 



Anal fin: length of base 29.4—33.2. 

 Pectoral fin: length 16.6— 19. 



Scales: ca. 38-42. 



Gill rakers: 1 5-1 9 + 18-22. 



Fin rays: dorsal 13 or 14; anal 26—30; 



pectoral 13 or 14. 

 Vertebrae: 41 (i specimen). 



