2 1 o Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 



Chesapeake Bay, and for North Carolina it is known by only one specimen taken 

 during the summer of 191 3 in inside waters at Beaufort, where intensive collecting was 

 carried on during many years. It has been stated often that the home of the Silver 

 Anchovy is in the Gulf Stream. The basis for this statement is unknown and certainly 

 stands in need of verification, especially as it has been rather definitely established 

 that the specimens known from North Carolina northward represent a species distinct 

 from the examples from the West Indies northward to Melbourne Beach, Florida. 

 All records of argyrofhana based on northern specimens apparently apply to eurystole 

 as herein understood. 



Synonyms and References: 



Stolefhorus ferfasciatus Swain (not of Poey), Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. (1882), 2, 1883: 55 (descr. of one from 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts; indicated as orig. descr. oi S. eurystole by Swain and Meek); Jordan and 

 Gilbert (not of Poey), Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 273 (descr. of one from Woods Hole, Mass., 

 apparently the same one used by Swain; West Indies includ. in the range where euryslok does not occur); 

 Bean, T. H. (not of Poey), Bull. N. Y. St. Mus., 60, Zool. 9, 1903 -.217 (descr., Noank, Connecticut, 

 and Gravesend Bay, Long Island, New York; in part exam, by me and found to be A. eurystole). 



Stolephorus eurystole Swain and Meek, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1885 : 35 (descr. by Swain and by Jordan 

 and Gilbert above referred to as orig.; type local. Woods Hole, Mass.; type destroyed by fire. This species 

 was said to differ from Engraulis perfasciatus Poey chiefly in the greater number of anal rays, a broader 

 lateral band, and a larger size; this northern species apparently reaches a somewhat larger size, but at most 

 there is only a small average difference in the number of anal rays, and the width of the lateral band varies 

 with age. For diagn. char., see Key); Bean, T. H., Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. (1887), 7, 1888: 150, 

 pi. 3, fig. ig (Ocean City and Longport, New Jersey). 



Stolephorus argyrophanus Jordan and Evermann (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes), Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47 

 (i), 1896: 444 (descr. apparently based on type of i?. eurystole; range "Gulf Stream, occasionally north- 

 ward"); Smith (not of C. and V.), Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. (1897), ly, 1898: 92 (occur, assoc. with other 

 species round Woods Hole, Massachusetts); Bean, T. H. (not of C. and V.), BuU. N. Y. St. Mus., 60, 

 Zool. 9, 1903: 216 (descr.. Ocean City, New Jersey, and Fire Island, New York). 



Anchovia eurystole Fowler, Rep. N. J. St. Mus. (1905), 2, 1906; 109 (descr.. Ocean City and Longport, New 

 Jersey; ident. of this species and Engraulis argyrophanus C. and V. questioned); Fowler, Rep. N.J. 

 St. Mus. (1906), 1907: 267, fig. (name); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 6j, 1911: 219 

 (Corson Inlet, New Jersey); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 6^, 191 2: 34 (Long Beach, New 

 York). 



Anchoziia argyrophana Sumner, Osburn, and Cole (not of C. and V.), Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish (191 1), JJ (2), 

 191 3: 743 (abund., where and how taken, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; parasites); Kuntz and Rad- 

 cliffe (not of C. and V.), BuU. U. S. Bur. Fish., J5, 1917: 116 (embryol., larval develop.); Nichols 

 and Breder (not of C. and V.), Zoologica, N. Y., 9(1), 1927: 43, fig. (diagn., distr., life hist., size); 

 Hildebrand (not of C. and V.), Copeia, 1941 : 224 (Beaufort, North Carolina). 



Anchovlella argyrophana Jordan and Scale (not of C. and V.), Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 6'], 1926: 402 

 (descr. of one from Provincetown, Mass.; argyrophana and eurystole regarded ident. by Jordan from exam, 

 of type of former in Paris, which had 19 anal rays instead of 17, as stated in orig. descr. But number of 

 anal rays does not distinguish this species from perfasciata); Breder (not of C. and V.), Field Bk. Mar. 

 Fish. Atl. Cat., 1929: 70, 71 (defined in key; range; "Gulf Stream species"; eggs, size); Jordan (not of 

 C. and v.). Manual Vert. Anim. NE U. S., ed. 13, 1929: 43 (descr., range); Jordan, Evermann, and 

 Clark (not of C. and V.), Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 48 (range; eurystole in synon.). 



Anchoviella eurystole Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 5(2), 1943: 112, fig. 47 (descr., cL per- 

 fasciata, range). 



Doubtful References: 



Anchovia perfasciata Nichols and Breder (probably not of Poey), Zoologica, N. Y., 9 (i), 1927: 42, fig. (diagn., 

 N. Y. City area; distingu. char, of this species and one rec. as argyrophana not stated correctly; fig. 



