204 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North .America. 



GENUS I. CLUPEA, Cuv. 



Body compressed ; scales large, thin, and deciduous ; head compressed ; 

 teeth minute or wanting ; a single dorsal fin ; abdominal line forming a sharp, 

 keel-like edge, which in some species is serrated ; branchiostegous rays, eight. 



1. Clupea elongata, Lesueur. 



Body lengthened, fusiform, compressed. Above deep blue, tinged with yellow ; sides sil- 

 very, with metallic reflections. Opercles yellow, oftentimes with a violet tint ; beneath sil- 

 very. Abdomen carinated, the spines of which are scarcely perceptible. Scales large, sil- 

 very, nearly smooth, deciduous. 



D. 18. P. 19. V. 9. A. 17. C 22. Length, 12 to 15 inches. 



Massachusetts, Lesueur, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, 

 Dekay. 



Culled " English Herring," in Massachusetts. 



Clupea harengus, Herring of Commerce, Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., n. p. 323. 

 ; .i !, ■ :, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sc, i. ii 250. 



" " Common Herring of Massachuse ' port, p. 111. 



" Common American Herring, Dekay's Report, p 



2. Clupea fasciata, Lesueur. 



Body compressed ; back straight ; breast and abdomen forming a bow downwards as far 

 as the tail. Seven to eight blackish blue lines at the sides of the back. A rounded notch 

 at the bottom of the divisions of the tail, of which the lower lobe is longest. 



D. 18. P. 10. V. 9. A. 18. C. 22|. Length, 1 to 9 inches. 



Massachusetts, Lesueur. Connecticut, Linsley. 



r pea fa :iata, Fasciated Herring, Lescevk, Journ. Acad. Nat, Sc, i. p. 233. 

 Clupea pusilla, Tiny Herring, Mitchill, Trans Lil and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i p. 452 (young). 

 Clu] il iata, F :iated Herring. Stoker's Report, p Hi 

 Striped Herring, Dekay's Report, p. 251. 



Dr. Dekay thinks the C. pusilla of Mitchill may be the young of this species. 



3. Clupea virescens, Dekay. 



Body much compressed. Back green ; a longitudinal green stripe above the lateral line ; 

 A black spot behind the upper angle of the gill-openings. Dorsal and caudal fins light olive- 

 green. Abdomen serrated, with nineteen strong spines anterior to the ventrals, and twelve 

 between these latter and the vent. Scales large, orbicular, deciduous. 



D. lfi. P. 10. V.9. A 17- C. 19l- Length, 6 inches. 



Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Called " Greenback," and " Fall Herring.'' 



