CLUPEA. HERRING. 



Generic Character. 



Mystaces maxillarum supe- 



riorum scrrati. 

 Membr : branch ; radiis 



octo. Branchiae intus 



setacea?. 

 Abdomen acutum, sirpius 



carinatum. 



Side -Plates of the upper 



mandible serrated. 

 Gill-membrane eight-rayed : 



gills internally setaceous. 



Abdomen sharp, and, gene- 

 rally, serrated. 



COMMON HERRING. 



Clupea Harengus. C. argentca, dorso subfusco, maxilla infer lore 



longiore, squamis facile deciduis. 

 Silvery Herring, with dusky back, lower jaw longer than the 



upper, and easily deciduous scales. 

 Clupea Harengus. C. immaculata, maxilla inferior e longiore. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 522. 

 Clupea maxilla inferiore longiore, pinnae ani radiis septendecim. 



Block, t. 29./. 1. 

 British Herring. Penn. Brit. Zool. 



A HIS fish, so eminently important in a com- 

 mercial view, and which may justly be said to form 

 one of the wonders of the northern world, is princi- 

 pally distinguished by the brilliant silvery colour of 

 its body, the advancement of the lower jaw beyond 

 the upper, and by the number of rays in the anal 



