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Atherina endrachfensis Bleeker, Arcb. neerl. sc. nat. Haarlem XIII. 1878, p. 53 

 (name only). 



Atlieriita cndrachtciis'is Sauvage, in Grandidier, Hist. nat. Madagascar XVI. 

 Poissons 1 89 1, p. 406. 



''.Alherina cndrachtensis Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Har- 

 vard College XXVI. No. 7, 1911, p. 254'). 



Atherina eendrachknsis Max Weber, Sil)oga-Expeditie Fische, 191 3, p. 136- 



Atherina endrachtensis de Beaufort, Bijdr. Dierkunde Afl. 19, Amsterdam I9i3,p. 106. 



Atherina eendraclitensis Max Weber, Revision indo-austr. Art. v. Atherina, Zoolog. 

 Mededeel. Mus. Leiden VI. 1921, p. 47. 



D'. (IV) V; D-. II. 7—8; A. II. 9—12; P.I. 14; V. I. 5. 

 L. 1. 34 — 36 et parvi ; L. tr. 6. 



Compressed, height about 5 to 5.5 times in total length. 

 Head and anterior part of back stout, flattened, broad, its 

 breadth above pectorals about '-/,o shorter than height on that 

 place. Head 4.2 to 4.5 in total length, 3.2 to 3.7 times in 

 length without caudal ; its upper surface broad, flat, even slightly- 

 concave, rectilinear to broad, blunt snout, which is shorter 

 than half length of eye ; mouth small, upper jaw somewhat 

 prominent, maxillary obliquely ascending, nearly reaching verti- 

 cal through frontborder of pupil. Eye about 2.3 to 2.5 in head, 

 equal to interorbital space but longer than postorbital part 

 of head. Origin of first dorsal opposite to 12th, usually 13th 

 scale, in small specimens midway between root of caudal and 

 anterior part of pupil. With increasing length the anterior end 

 of that measurement is shifted backward to hindborder of eye, 

 so that finally the origin of the first dorsal is midway between 

 hindborder of eye and root of caudal -). The vertical through 

 that origin is much nearer to anal than to base of ventrals. 

 Origin of second dorsal opposite to 20th scale and to anterior 

 third of anal. Anus opposite to Qt'i, usually iQili scale, 3 scales 

 before vertical through origin of first dorsal, situated between 

 posterior half to ultimate quarter of ventrals, the tips of which 

 reach the said vertical or nearly so. Origin of first dorsal 

 from that of second dorsal a distance contained about 1.7 to 



1) The authors unite under this species a number of specimens from Fiji, 

 Caroline and Marshall Islands. Of some of them a few characteristics are notified ; 

 these specimens certainly do not belong to endrachtensis Q. G. but possibly to 

 -/. teniminchi Blkr. But the descriptions are too incomplete to settle this question. 



2) As in ./. duodecimalis^ we suppose that in the short synopsis given by 

 Sauvage (I.e. p. 406) of the species of Atherina^ in the Paris Museum "bord 

 posterieur de I'oeiT' stands for "bord antcrieur". 



