﻿REVISION OF GENUS HARENGULA — RIVAS 293 



Harengula arcuata (not Clupea arcuala Jeiiyns, 1842, p. 134), Jordan, 1890, pp. 

 615 (listed), 640 (characters; material and synonymy in part; St. Lucia). 



Sardinclla humeraJis (not Harengula humcralis Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847, p. 

 293), Jordan and EvEUMANN, 1896a, pp. 428 (characters in key), 431 (com- 

 mon names in part; description in part; range in part; synonymy and refer- 

 ences in part); 1896b, p. 283 (common names in part; range in part; refer- 

 ence). — Metzelaar, 1919, p. 11 (partial synonymy; size; common and doubt- 

 fully poisonous; common name; habitat; Curasao; St. Eustatius). 



Harengula pensacolae (not of Goode and Bean, 1879, p. 152), Regan, 1917, p. 389 

 (synonymy in part; description in part; material in part; Florida excepted; 

 Trinidad). — Fowler, 1919, p. 129 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). 



Harengula majorina Storey, 1938, pp. 7, 18, 21, 23, 25, 32, 42, 44, 50, 51, figs. 1, 

 8, 9, 17 (characters; relationships; comparisons; range; synonymy; diagnosis; 

 material; comments; nomenclatorial notes; West Indies, St. Lucia, Santos, 

 Province of Sao Paulo, Brazil). — Fowler, 1940a, p. 746 (drawing; Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil); 1941, p. 133 (references; Brazil). — Hildebrand, in Longley 

 and Hildebrand, 1941, p. 11 (comments). 



Before it had been given a name and properly described by Storey' 

 (1938, p. 7) this form was incorrectly called H. humeralis Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes (1847, p. 293) by authors. Storey (1938, p. 50) has 

 proved that Cuvier and Valenciennes's description of H. humeralis 

 was almost certainly based on material of H. pensacolae majorina but 

 that the name humeralis cannot be applied to this subspecies. 



The material (U. S. N. M. Nos. 41337 and 123753) collected by the 

 Albatross at Port Castries, St. Lucia, in November 1888 and errone-) 

 ously recorded by Jordan (1890, p. 646) as H. arcuata is H. pensacolae 

 majorina, although characters given in his key were based on material 

 of H. pensacolae pensacolae. 



Regan's description of H. pensacolae pensacolae applies to H, 

 pensacolae majorina, since it was based on material of both subspecies; 

 the specimens from Florida are H. pensacolae pensacolae, and those 

 from Trinidad are H. pensacolae majorina. The characters used in 

 the description, including the number of gill rakers, are common to 

 both subspecies (see items 66 and 36 of the key). 



A single specimen (U. S. N. M. No. 100833) 124 mm. in length,' 

 from Porto Inhauma, Brazil, although falling within the range of 

 variation of Harengula pensacolae majorina in most counts and propor- 

 tions, differs in the following characters: The body is much more 

 compressed and the fins are longer, especially the caudal, which in 

 addition is not fully scaled. The scales are thinner and those at 

 middle of sides below the dorsal fin are deeper. The margin of the 

 dorsal fin is much more concave. The ventral fin is inserted nearer 

 the pectoral base than the anal origin (about midway in typical H. 

 pensacolae majorina). This specimen may be simply aberrant or it 

 may represent a hitherto undescribed additional subspecies of Haren- 

 gula pensacolae. More specimens are needed before the question can 

 be definitely settled. 



