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3. Clupea (Harengula) koningsbergeri M. Web. & de Bfrt. 
Clupea (Harengula) Koningsbergeri Max Weber & L. F. de Beaufort, Verhand. 
Akad. Amsterdam, XVII. N®. 3, 1912, p. 14. 
B) 63) D. 18190; A. 2021; Pi 153 V328; ae 
Ltr a2, : 
Abdominal profile conspicuously more convex than the 
dorsal, which is nearly straight, but oblique from the dorsal 
to. the snout. Height 2%/ 5 "head 37/55 eye! 27) p72 little doucer 
than postorbital part of head and '/, longer than snout. 
Maxillary reaches nearly to middle of eye, 2 times in head; 
its inferior border finely denticulated. Three to 5 diverging 
postfrontal striae. Operculum about three times as high as 
broad, emarginated behind, its inferior margin straight-cut 
and oblique, suboperculum rhombic, its inferior anterior angle 
acute, the posterior one rounded; praeoperculum nearly straight 
behind. Cheeks and operculum venulous. Dorsal about midway 
between snout and caudal, its origin much nearer to snout. 
Its base shorter than its height, which is more than half the 
height of the body. Anal much lower than dorsal, its base 
about as long as that of dorsal. Ventrals midway the body, 
they originate not much before middle of dorsal. Pectorals a 
little shorter than head. Caudal 3°/,; of body, scaly. 4—6 
larger curved teeth in mandible, fine teeth on upper jaw, 
palatines and tongue. Gillrakers 32, longest ?/; of eye. Scales 
with 3 vertical lines, their margin entire or more or less 
crenulated and striated; behind dorsal and on peduncle of 
caudal with at least 3 waved lines; about 12 praedorsal median 
scales; 17 praeventral and 12—13 postventral scutes. Back 
dark, otherwise silvery, on superior half 3 dark longitudinal 
lines, between the 2 superior about 8 vertical dark patches 
and sometimes a few on the flanks. Fins hyaline, caudal with 
a dark hue. Length about 130 mm. 
Habitat: Aru Islands! 
In sea. 
4. Clupea (Harengula) melanura (C. V.). 
Alausa melanur jig Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XX. 1847. p. 441. 
fTarengula (Paralosa) Valenciennesi Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amsterdam, (2) IL. 
1868, p. 300, (nomen solum). 
Clupea melanura Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 449. 
Clupea (Harengula) melanurus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth, VI. 1872. p. 111. 
