116 CLASS XIV. 



Sp. Clupea spratins L., Yark. Brit. Fish. ii. p. 121 ; tlie sprat. — Most of the 

 species of this sub-genus are exotic. 



Pellona Yalenc. Ventral fins placed before dorsal fin. Anal 

 fin long. Branchiostegous membrane with 6 rays. Abdomen com- 

 pressed, convex, sharply serrate. 



Sp. Clupea Iserti, Clupea africana Block, &c. ; numerous, all exotic, mostly- 

 East Indian species. 



Pristigaster Cuv. Ventral fins none. Abdomen as in sub. genus 

 Pellmia. 



Sp. Pristigaster cayanus Cuv., R. Anl, PI. x. fig. 3 ; ^d. 2, PI, xii. fig. 3. 

 Species foreign. 



C. Teeth of vomer and of piterygoid hones none. 



Spratella Valenc. Teeth in p date bones and in tongue alone. 



D. Teeth of vomer and pal te hones none. 



Clu2)eonia Valenc. Teeth in tongue and in pterygoid bones 

 alone. 



Sp. Clupea Jussievi Lacep. loiss. v. PL 1 1, fig. 2 ; Clupea melamira Cuv., 

 Clupeonia Commersonii Val'NC, Lacep. ibid, fig.3; Clupea Blochvi, Clupea 

 sinetisis Bloch, Ichth. Tab. .05. 



Kowala Valenc. Teeth in jaws and in pterygoid bones. 



Sp. Clupea Kowal Eussell, Corom Fish. PI. 86, cited by Valenc, Schlegel 

 Faun. Japan., Pise. PI. 107, fig. i. 



Meletta Valenc. Teeth in tongue only. Branchiostegous mem- 

 brane with 7 rays, more rarely with 6. 



Clupea meletta, Meletta vulgaris YaleHc, Cuv. et Val. Poiss. xx. PI. 603 . 

 — Clupea thrissa auctor (not L.), ChaloessusCvv., Brousson, 1. 1. Tab. 10; 

 in this species the last ray of the dorsal fin forms a long thread ; it is found 

 on the coasts of America. 



Alosa Cuv. Teeth either none, or small, deciduous in jaws alone. 

 Upper jaw emarginate in the middle. Branchiostegous membrane 

 with 8 rays. 



Sp. Clupea Alosa L., Alausa vulgans Valenc, Yabr. Brit. Fish. 11. p. 136, 

 Cuv. et Val. Poiss. xx. PI. 604 ; the shad, I'alose ; this fish lives in the 

 North Sea and the Mediterranean, and belongs to the species which, at a 

 .certain time of the year, come into fresh water. Thus, in April it is not 

 rare in the niouth of our rivers, and at Rotterdam, for instance, is com- 

 monly known. The Clupea finta Cvv . , Clupea fallax Lacep., is, according 

 to Valenciennes, by no means to be regarded as a distinct species. — ^There 



