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Dorsal fin moderately high anteriorly, its longest rays reaching beyond tip of 

 last ray if deflected, its origin about equidistant between caudal base and anterior 

 margin of eye. Anal originating under or slightly behind middle of dorsal base, its base 

 4.2—4.5 in SL. Pelvic generally reaching more then halfway to anal, inserted rather 

 nearer to pectoral base than to anal origin. Pectoral usually extending scarcely to 

 base of pelvic, 1.6— 1.75 in head. Axillary scale of pectoral about half as long as 

 fin, 2.8—3.75 in head. 



Color. In alcohol, pale (originally preserved in formalin). Silvery lateral band 

 poorly defined, narrower than eye. Upper surface of head and back with dusky punc- 

 tulations; dark spots at base of anal, and a median dark line posterior to anal. 



Size. The largest specimen in the collection, about 100 mm (4 in.) TL, is the 

 largest individual reported. 



Figure 49. Anchoviella elongala, loi mm TL, from Porto Bello, Panama, USNM 82093. Drawn by Louella 

 E. Cable. 



Range and Habitat. Known only from the Atlantic coast of Panama, where it ap- 

 parently is not rare. Specimens have been collected from brackish water at Mindi 

 (near Gatun), and from Gatun Spillway, Canal Zone ; and from Porto Bello and Puerto 

 Pilon, Panama. 



Synonyms and References: 



Anchovia elongata Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Publ., Zool., J5 (i), 1923: 198, pi. 12, fig. 2 (orig. 



descr.; type local. Mindi, Canal Zone; type USNM 81768; cf. A. cubana)\ Breder, Zoologica, N. Y., 



4 (4), 1925: 141 (common at Gatun Spillway, Canal Zone). 

 Anchoviella elongata Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 49 (ref. to orig. 



descr.); Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., 8 (2), 1943: 126, fig. 54 (descr., generic relations., 



range). 



Anchoviella lepidentostole (Fowler) 1 9 1 i 

 Figure 50 



Study Material. The type, about 96 mm (caudal fin damaged), 84 mm SL, and a 

 paratype 76 mm long, 63 mm SL, from "Surinam." 



