Si 



Habitat: Java (Batavia! Puger!); Nias; Bali; Celebes 

 (Menado !, Tombariri) ; Sangir Islands; Ternate; Batjan; Obi; 

 Ambon; Saparua ; Ceram (Wahai, Kawa!, Kairatu!); Halma- 

 hera. -- Samoa Islands, Society Islands, Harvey Islands. West- 

 ward to Andamans. Madagascar? 



12. Clupea (Harengula) moluccensis (Blkr.) 



Harengiila moluccensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IV. 1853, p. 609. 



Harengula Kunzei Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XII. 1856 1857, p. 209. 



Clupea mohiccensis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 427. 



Clupea {Harengula) moluccensis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 107. 



Clupea (Harengula) Kunzei Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 18661872, p. 107. 



Clupea Khmzei Day, Fishes of India 4. 18781888, p. 636. 



Harengula moluccensis Jordan & Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fish. XXVII. 1908. p. 236. 



Clupea Kimzii Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft VIII. 1909, p. 382. 



B. 6; D. 1719; A. 1718; P. 1516; V. 8; L. 1. 

 4345; L. tr. 1012. 



Abdominal profile a little more or not more convex than 

 dorsal. Height 3V 2 4 head 3'/ 2 4; eye 2 3 / 4 3^4, as long 

 as postorbital part of head or a little shorter, about ] / 4 longer 

 than snout. Maxillary reaches not farther than middle of eye, 

 twice or a little more in head; 3 8 diverging postfrontal striae. 

 Operculum twice as high as broad, suboperculum rhombic 

 its, posterior inferior corner rounded, its length twice its 

 height. Venules on cheeks, postorbital 

 part of head and opercles extending a 

 little way on body behind opercles. Dorsal 

 up to one eye diameter nearer to caudal 

 than to snout. Distance from origin of 

 dorsal to base of caudal i'/ 5 i*/ 7 times 

 its distance from snout. Length of dorsal 

 equals its height, which equals length of 

 eye and snout or 2 / 3 of the height of the 

 body. Anal shorter than dorsal. Pectorals 

 as long as head without snout. Origin of 

 ventrals before middle of dorsal. Caudal 



, A , , , , , ,- . ,11 A i 



longer than head, 5'/4 6 in total length. 

 Teeth on palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Gillrakers 32, 

 coarse, longest ! / 2 of eye, shorter than breadth of operculum. 

 Scales vertically striped, their margin crenulated or identated, 



INDO-AUSTRALIAN FISHES II. 6 



Fi S- 28. 

 of Clupea (Harengula} 



moluccensis Blkr. V 6. 



