81 
Habitat: Java (Batavia! Puger!); Nias; Bali; Celebes 
(Menado!, Tombariri); Sangir Islands; Ternate; Batjan; Obi; 
Ambon; Saparua; Ceram (Wahai, Kawa!, Kairatu!); Halma- 
hera. — Samoa Islands, Society Islands, Harvey Islands. West- 
ward to Andamans. Madagascar? 
12. Clupea (Harengula) moluccensis (Blkr.) 
Harengula moluccensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indié IV. 1853, p. 609. 
Harengula Kunzei Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indié XII. 1856—1857, p. 209. 
Clupea moluccensis Gtinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 427. 
Clupea (Harengula) moluccensis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 107. 
Clupea (Harengula) Kunzei Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—1872, p. 107. 
Clupea Klunzei Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 636. 
Harengula moluccensis Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish. XX VII. 1908. p. 236. 
Clupea Kunzii Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 382. 
e- 6; D. 17-19; A. i7--1s; .Pe,as—16; V..:8; L. I. 
43—45; L. tr. 1o—12. 
Abdominal profile a little more or not more convex than 
dorsal. Height 3!/,—4; head 3'/,—4; eye 2°/,—3'/,, as long 
as postorbital part of head or a little shorter, about !/, longer 
than snout. Maxillary reaches not farther than middle of eye, 
twice or a little more in head; 3—8 diverging postfrontal striae. 
Operculum twice as high as broad, suboperculum rhombic 
its, posterior inferior corner rounded, its length twice its 
height. Venules on cheeks, postorbital 
part of head and,opercles extending a 
little way on body behind opercles. Dorsal 
up to one eye diameter nearer to caudal 
than to snout. Distance from origin of 
dorsal to base of caudal 1'/,—1'/, times 
its distance from snout. Length of dorsal 
equals its height, which equals length of 
eye and snout or */, of the height of the 
body. Anal shorter than dorsal. Pectorals 
as long as head without snout. Origin of Fig. 28. 
ventrals before middle of dorsal. Caudal 5” of pea (Harengula) 
longer than head, 5'/,—6 in total length. apes t Cat to eee aN 
Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Gillrakers 32, 
coarse, longest '/, of eye, shorter than breadth of operculum. 
Scales vertically striped, their margin crenulated or identated, 
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