Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 449 



long, anteriorly compressed , the snout pointed and protruding ; head nearly 

 twice as long as deep ; eye large, very near the tip of the snout ; max- 

 illary extending beyond root of mandible ; jaws with small teeth ; opercle 

 deeper than long, placed very obliquely. Gill rakers very long, much 

 longer than the eye. Bluish above ; sides and below silvery, not trans- 

 lucent ; no silvery lateral band. Young more compressed, the sides sil- 

 very, but not translucent and without lateral band. Flesh comparatively 

 dark and easily torn, as in a sardine. Length 7 inches. Pacific Coast 

 of America from Vancouver Island to Lower California; extremely abun- 

 dant, in large schools; one of the largest of our anchovies, and the most 

 valuable as food, ranging farther north than its American allies, as does 

 the related Engraulis encrasicholus in Europe, (mordax, biting.) 

 E>fjranlix inordax, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 138, and in Pac. R. K. Surv., x, 334, 



1858, Shoalwater Bay, Washington. (Coll. Dr. J. G. Cooper.) 

 Enyranli* nninift, UIKARD, I. c., x, 335, 1858, San Francisco; young. (Coll. Heermaun); KNEB 



& STEiNDAciiNF.it, Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1866, fig. 17. 

 Stolephorus ringens, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 272, 1883, and of recent authors generally, 



but probably not identical with Engraulis ringens, JENYNS, Voyage Beagle, 136, 1842, a 



similar species from Chili and Peru, but with anal rays 19, and the head 4 iu length. 



Neither sp'ecies occurs on the west coast of Mexico. 



220. ANCHOVIA, Jordan & Evermann. 



Anckovia, JORDAN <fe EVERMANN, new genus, (macrolepidota). 



The genus is closely allied to Stolephorus, differing in the form of the' 

 body which is very deep, but not strongly compressed, andiii the absence 

 of teeth in both jaws in the adult, although teeth are developed in the 

 young. One species known. (Anchovia, Anchovy, a name long applied to 

 Engraulis encrasicholus, the Anchovy of Europe.) 



739. ANCHOVIA MACROLEPIDOTA (Kner & Steindachner). 

 (SARDINA BOCONA.) 



Head 3i ; depth 3. D. 15 ; A. 28 to 30 ; scales 35-9. Body very short 

 and deep, both dorsal and ventral outlines strongly arched; head one- 

 fourth longer than deep; snout very short, not longer than pupil; not 

 projecting far beyond lower jaw; jaws toothless in adult; minute teeth 

 present in young ; maxillary narrow, rounded behind, extending to angle 

 of preopercle; gill rakers fine, long, and very numerous; subopercle 

 with a slight process, as in 8. spinifer. Abdomen slightly compressed. 

 Scales adherent. Origin of dorsal slightly behind middle of body ; ventrals 

 very small, pectorals rather long. Silvery, sides with an indistinct bluish 

 band. Length 8 inches. Gulf of Mexico to Panama, very abundant 

 about Guaymas where it is often cast up dead on the beach in great 

 numbers ; one of the largest species of anchovy. (^a/cpo^eTr^of^f , large- 

 scaled.) 



Engraulis macrolepidolus, KNER & STEINDACHNER, Abhaudl. Bayer, Akad. Wiss., x, 1864, 21, 

 pi. in, fig. 2, Rio Bayano, Panama ; GIINTHER, Cat., vn, 385, 1868 ;.STEINDACHNER, Ichth. 

 Beitr., iv, 37, 1875. 

 Slolephorus macrohpidotus, EVERMANN &, JENKINS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 131 



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