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A. Dorsal fin present Pellona p. 84. 



B. Dorsal fin wanting. 



1. Ventrals present Opisthopterus p. 95. 



2. Ventrals wanting Raconda p. 97. 



I. Corica Hamilton, Buchanan. 

 (HAMILTON, Buchanan. Fishes of the Ganges 1822. p. 253, 383). 



Elongate or subelongate, belly not much compressed. Back 

 rounded. Scales moderate, thin, smooth or nearly so. Teeth 

 on jaws, palatines and tongue. Two anal fins, the second 

 formed by two thickened rays, cleft to the base and much 

 longer than the last rays of first anal. Origin of ventrals below 

 that of dorsal. Branchiostegal rays 6. Gillrakers not numerous. 



Synopsis of the subgenera. 



A. Mouth ordinary. Twenty two slender elongate gillrakers. 



Teeth very minute subgenus : Corica p. 54. 



B. Intermaxillary prominent and forming a blunt angle 

 with the rather convex, ascending maxillary, beyond 

 the margin of which protrude the points of the rather 



long teeth. Nineteen thick, short gillrakers. . . subgenus: Clupeichthys p. 55. 



Subgenus: Corica Ham. Buch. 

 i. Corica (Corica) pseudopterus (Blkr.). 



Spratella pseudopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 432. 

 Clupeoides pseudopterus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 452. 

 Corica pseudopterus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 98. 

 Clupeoides pseudopterus Vaillant, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. (3) V. 1894, p. ioo 



B. 6; D. 15 16; (1314 Gunther, Vaillant); A. 14 16-}-2; 

 P. 12 13; V. 8; L.I. 37 40; L. tr. 9 10. 



Subelongate, compressed. Ventral and dorsal profile almost 

 evenly convex. Height about 4'/ 2 , about 5'/ 2 with caudal, head 

 about 4 ! / 4 , 5 ! /4 SVs with caudal. Eye about 2'/ 4 3, nearly 

 equal to or a little longer than snout and about equal to postor- 

 bital part of head. Two or one hardly conspicuous small ridges 

 on each side of vertex. Maxillary reaching somewhat beyond 

 frontmargin of eye, somewhat more than twice in head. Origin 

 of dorsal a little nearer to root of caudal than to snout. First 

 anal about equal to half length of head, second anal remote 

 from first. Pectorals about as long as head without snout. 

 Origin of ventrals hardly in front of that of dorsal. Minute 



