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120 Stolephorus argyrophanus (Cut. & Yal.) 

 Silvery Anohovp 



Engrmilis argyrophanus Ouvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXI, 



49, 184S. 

 Stolephorus perfasciatus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, IT. S.Nat.Mus.273, 18S3, 



not Engraulis perfasciatus Poey, Mem. Cuba, II, 312, 185S. 

 Stolephorus eury stole Swain & Meek, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 34, 1884; 



Bean, Bull. U. S. Y. C. VII, 150, pi. Ill, fig. 19, 18.S8. 

 Stolephorus argyrophanus Jordan & E verm ann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. ^NIus. 



444, 1896; Bean, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 337, 1897; Smith, Bull. 



U. S. F. C. XVII, 92, 1898. 



Body elongate, much more slender than in S. b r o w n i i , 

 and not so much compressed; head not so deep as in S. 

 brownii, more pointed, the snout rather sharp; eye rather 

 small, four and one half in head, not larger than snout; maxil- 

 lary teeth well developed, mandibulary teeth very slender; gill 

 rakers very long, as long as the eye; maxillary 'shorter than in 



5. brown i, not reaching quite to the base of the mandible;; 

 belly slightly compressed, not serrated. Scales very deciduous, 

 Ventrals short, very slightly in front of dorsal; caudal peduncle 

 long and slender; dorsal inserted scarcely nearer caudal tiian 

 snout. Silvery stripe broad, half wider than the eye, bordered 

 above by a dusky streak. Head three and four fifths; depth 



6. D. 12; A. 20. Length 4 inches. West Indies; occasional 

 northward. A specimen in our collection from Woods Hole- 

 Mass. (After Jordan and Gilbert) 



The types of this species were obtained by Kuhl and Van- 

 Hasselt in the equatorial Atlantic. Cuvier and Valenciennes^ 

 in their original description^ of the fish, contrast it yni\\ S, 

 b r w n i and others, from which it is distinguished by its form 

 and by other characters. 



It has the body longer and slenderer; the cleft of the mouth 

 more oblique; the pectoral and anal much shorter; the teeth 

 excessively small. B. 11; D. 15; A. 17. The color is blue, more 

 pronounced on the back than on the belly. A silvery band run- 

 ning along the sides. Cuvier and Valmclennes 



Young individuals were seined at Ocean Citv N. J. Aug. 1. 

 18S7; ;ig;iiii al Longport N. J. numerous young were taken Aug. 

 *Hist. Nat. Poiss. 1848. 21:49. 



