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HARENGULA Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
HARENGULA ANTIPODA Hector. 
SPRAT. 
Clupea sprattus, var. antipodum Hector, Cat. Fish. N.Z., 1872, 
p, 433. Arthur, T.N.Z.1. xvs 1883))p. 203, pit xacny., Tele 
Clupea antipoda Hutton, Index Faune N.Z., 1904, p. 51. 
Stations 6, 17, 33, 40, 41, 42, 45, 52, 53, 86, 87. 
B, vit D, 16; A..16; V. 8; P.15s:C, 20-— 12). Sc. 47 sc.teeae 
Vert. 22 + 22 = 44. 
Length of head 3.8, depth of body 3.27, length of caudal 7.5 
in the length; diameter of eye 3.8, interorbital space 5.3, length 
of snout 3.25, mandible 1.9, pectoral 1.44 in the head. 
Head compressed, flattened above, eye a little deeper than 
long, mouth sub-vertical, the lower jaw projecting, mandible 
almost covered by the maxillary, which is strongly bowed, very 
broad, and extends to beneath the first third of the eye; gill 
openings large, the membranes not attached to the isthmus, gill- 
rakers long and slender, fifty-nine on the first arch, of which 
thirty-seven are on the lower limb. . 
The body is compressed but thick above, passing into the sharp 
belly, the dorsal profile is slightly convex, the ventral profile 
markedly so. 
Teeth.—Very weak, in the jaws, on the vomer, palatines and 
tongue. 
Fins.—The origin of the dorsal is situated a little nearer to 
the base of the caudal rays than to the end of the snout, the 
base of the fin is equal to the length of the pectoral; anal fin 
short, the distance of its origin from the caudal much less than 
the leneth of the head; pectorals low; ventrals small, nearly 
twice the diameter of the eye, and placed below the third or 
fourth dorsal ray, caudal deeply cleft, the depth of the 
peduncle is one-half greater than the diameter of the eye. 
Scales—Head naked, the body seales are thin and deciduous, 
each of the abdominal scutes produced into a sharp spine, 
twenty-two being in advance of the ventral fins, and twelve 
thence to the anal. 
Colours.—Back dark green, sides silvery, the dividing line 
being very marked and quite straight except near the caudal, 
the dark tint occupying the whole base of the caudal; fins 
colourless. 
Length.—120 mm. 
