334 FISHES OF WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA 
Pristigaster martii Agassiz, 1829, Sel. Gen. et Spec. Pisc. Bras., 55, pl. xxiv, a; 
Fowler, 1939 (1940), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XCI, 221, fig. 2, one, 80 mm., Contamana. 
Coastal Guiana and Brazil; R. Jurué, Maranon, Huallaga 
15618, 1, 97 mm., Lago Sanango, Yurimaguas, Allen, November, 1920. 
16V4 5 7s mm., Iquitos, Morris, 1922. 
A marine anchovy, one of the relict fish fauna of a former inland sea, now sur- 
viving here at some 2800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon and at the fringe of 
the Andes. 
Genus 191: ILISHA Richardson 
Platygaster Swainson, 1839, Fish. Amph. Rept., I, 294, preoccupied. 
Ilisha (Gray) Richardson, 1845, Rept. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 306; 
Bleeker, 1866, Nederl. Tijdsch. Dierk., III, 300, abnormis; 
Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, IIT, 452; 
Eigenmann, 1912, Mem. Carnegie Mus., V, 445. 
Pellona Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XX, 300, flavipinnis; 
Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1891, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., XIV, 63. 
Type: Llisha abnormis Gray 
Marine and coastal fresh waters, Amazons 
With long anal fin, 39 rays; dorsal fin in posterior position; mandible with four 
or five strong, conical, recurved teeth on each side, anteriorly; premaxillary teeth 
about 14 in a graduated series; maxillary bordered with minute but strong teeth; 
vomer edentulous, tongue with a broad patch of granular teeth; anal fin posterior 
to end of dorsal, caudal forked; adipose lid strongly developed, leaving only a nar- 
row, vertical slit. 
466. ILISHA ALTAMAZONICA (Cope) 
Pellona altamazonica Cope, 1871 (1872), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., XXIII, 256, Rio Ambyiacu; 
Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1891, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., XIV, 63. 
Tlisha altamazonica Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, IIT, 452. 
Rio Ambyiacu, Rio Tocantins 
467. InisHa IQUITENSIS Nakashima 
Ilisha iquitensis Nakashima, 1941, Bol. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lima, V, 66. 
Iquitos 
Dr. G. 8. Myers, who has seen the paper, accepts J. iquitensis as a good species 
on the basis of a dorsal finray count of 15; A. 52; scutes 30. 
468. InisHA DEAURATA Nakashima 
Llisha deauratus Nakashima, 1941, Bol. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lima, V, 67. 
