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Genus pomolobus Rafinesque 

 Body obloug-, more or less compressed; mouth moderate, 

 erminal, the jaws about equal, or the lower projecting, the 

 ipper scarcely , notched at tip; t(^eth feeble, variously placed, 

 jrobably never wholly absent, mandibles very deep at base, 

 shutting within the maxillaries; gill rakers more or less long 

 ind slender, numerous; adipose eyelid present; scales thin, 

 ycloid, deciduous, entire, rounded posteriorly; cheeks with the 

 "ree part longer than deep; dorsal fln rather short, nearly 

 uedian, beginning in advance of ventrals, its posterior ray not 

 )rolonged in a filament; ventral present; anal moderate; belly 

 ompressed, strongly serrated before and behind ventrals. 

 ^lesh rather dry and poor, less oily than in C 1 u p a u o d o n . 

 k^ertebrae 46 to 55 in number, usually 50. Species numerous, 

 Qostly anadromous. 



Ill Pomolobus chrysocMoris Rafinesque 

 SJcipjack: Blue Herring; Gold Shad 



\)molobus chi-ysochlaris Rafinesque, Iclitli. Ohien. 39, 1820. Ohio River; 



JoKDAN & EvEEMANN, Bull. 17, U. S. -Nat. Mus. 425, 1806, pi. LXX, 



fig. 187, 1900. 

 leletta suoerii Guv'ier & Valenciennes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. XX, 375, 1847. 

 llosa cim-ysochloris Kiktland, Bos?t. Jour. Nat. Hist. IV, 307, pi. XV, fig. 3, 



1844. 

 ntipea ChrysocMoris Jordan & Gilbert. Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 266. 1883; 



Goode, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I. 504, pL 211, 1884; Bean, Fishes 



Penna. 59, 1893. 



This species has a few strong and distinct teeth in the jaws, 

 he lower jaw strongly projecting, the caudal peduncle stout 

 nd the belly strongly serrated. In shape the body resembles 

 hat of the sea herring; it is compressed, rather low, its depth 

 lightly more than one fourth of the total length without caudal 

 nd about equal to the length of the head. The eye is large, 

 early one fourth the length of head; the maxilla extends nearly 

 the hind margin of the eye; the length of the upper jaw is 

 lore than one half the length of head. The origin of the dorsal 

 5 over the ninth series of scales, and the length of its base 

 orresponds with 10 rows of scales. The ventral origin is under 



