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occurrence; Cape Sable Creek, Marco; San Carlos Pass; Big Gasparrilla; 

 Egmont Key, Fla.). — Evermann and Kendall, 1894, p. 105 (material; 

 comparisons; Galveston and Corpus Christi, Tex.). 



Sardinella humcralis (not Harengula humeralis Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847, p. 

 293), Jordan and Evermann, 189Ga, pp. 428 (characters in key), 431 (com- 

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

 erences in part; types of Harengula pensacolae designated); 1896b, p. 283 

 (common names in part; range in part; reference excluded). — Cockerell, 

 1910, p. G3 (description of scales; Tampa, Fla.). — Fowler, 1911, p. 206 

 (localities in part: Florida and ? Rhode Island only). 



Harengula humeralis (not of Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1847, p. 293), Jordan and 

 Thompson, 1905, p. 233 (abundance; used as bait; Tortugas, Fla.). — Fowler, 

 1906, p. 83 (coloration; material; preservation; Marquesas Keys and Hailer's 

 Rock, Fla.), fig. 3 (drawing); 1915a, p. 247 (Clearwater and Palm Beach, 

 Fla.). 



Harengula macrophthalma (not Clupea inacrophthalma Ranzani, 1842, p. 320), 

 Gunter, 1945, pp. 25, 128 (occurrence; abundance; method of capture; 

 salinity and temperature; size; Copano Bay, Aransas Bay, Lydia Ann 

 Channel, Texas). 



The original description of this species (Goode and Bean, 1879, 

 p. 152) was based on two specimens, 124 and 132 mm. in length, 

 U.S.N.M. No. 22831, collected by S. Stearns at Pensacola, Fla., in 

 1878. Later, Jordan and Evermann (1896, p. 431) erroneously 

 designated U.S.N.M. No. 22829 as types. They probably thought 

 that the number (29) in parentheses, which is indicated after U.S.N.M. 

 No. 22831 (in the original description), meant 22829. The 29 is the 

 original number of the lot, and U.S.N.M. No. 22829, which has been 

 destroyed, corresponds to a cast of the salmonid fish Oncorhynchus 

 quinnat=0. tschawytscha (Walbaum). The [specimen 132 mm. in 

 length, in U.S.N.M. No. 22831, is designated here as the lectotype. 



H. pensacolae jmnsacolae was synonymized withfl^. macrophthalma= 

 H. clupeola by Longley and Hildebrand (1941, p. 10) on the basis of the 

 increase in the number of gill rakers with age, shown by their material 

 from the Tortugas: "Specimens of H. macrophtlmlma 31 to 44 mm. 

 long had about 28 to 33 rakers on the lower limb of the first arch, 

 whereas larger specimens, ranging upwards of 125 mm. in length, had 

 about 29 to 36." I have examined the material {H. clupeola, U.S.N.M. 

 No. 116872) referred to in the above quotation as "larger specimens," 

 and only one out of 25 specimens (118 to 149 mm. in length) counted 

 had 36 gill rakers; the rest ranged from 28 to 34, usually 30 to 32. 

 Very young spcimens of H. pensacolae pensacolae (below a standard 

 length of 40 mm.) have a gill-raker count within the total range of 

 H. clupeola, but in young specimens of the same size of the latter 

 species the number of gill rakers is always lower than in H. pensacolae 

 pensacolae. In addition to the number of gill rakers, H. pensacolae 

 pensacolae differs from H. clupeola, in the ventral-scute count (see 

 items 3a and 36 of the key and table 1) and in the deeper head and 



