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ATHERINA (Artedi) Linnaeus. 
FRIARS. 
Atherina (Artedi) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 315 (hepsetus). 
Membras Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, 1836 (no type indicated). 
Body oblong, compressed. Mouth large, terminal, oblique; jaws 
about equal, their edges nearly straight; maxillar}^ extending to the 
front of eye. Preuiaxillaries narrow posteriorly, strongh" protractile. 
Villiform teeth in bands on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Species 
numerous, mostl}' European. 
{adspivy^ the ancient name, from aOjfp^ a spike or arrow.) 
o. Vent between the ventral fins. 
h. Scales with entire edges, about 40 in number; lateral band narrow, .i/'oodwardi 
hi). Scales obtusely denticulate, about 45 in number; lateral band hvo?i6.eY Meekeri 
aa. Vent well behind tip of ventrals; scales 45; scales with entire edges isurugie 
ATHERINA WOOD\A^ARDI Jordan and Starks, new species. 
Atherina f pinguis Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 33, Okinawa, Miyakoshima, 
Riukiii Archipelago, not of Lacepede. 
Head 4i in body without caudal; depth 5^. Eye 2| in head; snout 
4; maxillary 2|. Dorsal V-1, 10; anal I, 12. Scales 10, transv^erse 6. 
Fig. 1.— Atherina woodwardi. 
Mouth moderate in size, the maxillary reaching to just past anterior 
orbital rim. Teeth very small, in narrow bands on jaws and vomer. 
Gill-rakers slender, about half eye in length, their number about + 16. 
Head as viewed from above essentially as here descril)ed for ^4. hleekeri 
and with the same ridges. 
Cheeks and suborbital region evidently with scales, though but two 
or three scales remain on head on our specimens. Scales on body with 
entire edges. Fifteen scales in the median series on back before 
spinous dorsal, and 7 between dorsal bases. » 
Origin of ventrals midway between front of anal and middle of eve; 
distance between front of first dorsal and front of second If in head. 
Pectoral reaching to above tirst third of ventrals. Vent between 
ventrals as in A. hleekeri. 
Color probably silvery; the back very sparsely covered with coarse 
brown dots set more or less in rows. A rather narrow silvery lateral 
