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27. Jenkinsia lamprotaenia (Gosse). 
Heart 3.75; depth 5.75; eye 3; snout 3; maxillary 2.3; mandible 2.2; interorbital 5; D. 14; A. 15. 
Body long, slender, and compressed; head narrow; snout long, conical, as long as the large eye; 
mouth large, jaws subequal, maxillary narrow, reaching slightly past anterior border of eye; minute 
teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; origin of dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of caudal, 
slightly in front of insertion of ventrals. Length 2 to 3 inches. 
Pale straw-color; a narrow dark stripe along median line of back, and a broad silvery lateral 
band nearly as broad as eye. 
Known only from Jamaica and Porto Rico. One specimen, 2.5 inches long, obtained. 
Ctupca lamprotxnia Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaica, 291, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1851, Jamaica. 
Jenkinsia lamprotsenia, Jordan & Evermann, 1. c., 419, 1896. 
28. Jenkinsia stolifera (Jordan & Gilbert). 
Head 3.75; depth 5.5; eye 2.5; D. 11; A. 17; scales caducous, about 36. 
Body elongate, slender, moderately compressed. Snout sharp, tapering; jaws equal; maxillary 
2.5 in head, reaching slightly beyond front of eye. Teeth minute, evident in both jaws. Eye large. 
Dorsal high, inserted at a point slightly nearer snout than base of caudal; ventrals under fourth 
dorsal ray, nearly half head, and slightly shorter than pectoral. 
Translucent green; side with a silvery band as in Stolephorus, one-fourth depth of body, a little 
broader than pupil; a double row of dots along back before dorsal and a single row behind; fins pale. 
Found in the Gulf of Mexico from Ivey West to Yucatan. A small silvery fish very abundant in 
schools in the surf with Stolephorus brovmii, a species it much resembles in form and coloration. Length 
2 inches. Numerous specimens obtained near the shore of the reefs at Culebra Island. Most of these 
lack the silvery lateral band, which is replaced by a dark band, this condition appearing to be due to 
the formalin in which they were first preserved. 
Dussumieria stolifera Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1884 (June 3), 25, Key West. 
Jenkinsia stolifera, Jordan & Evermann, 1. c., 419, 1896. 
Genus 23. CLUPANODON Lacepede. The Sardines. 
This genus is close to Clupea, which it resembles in the elongate form and weak ventral serratures. 
Vomer toothless; teeth in jaws mostly weak. Scales thin, deciduous. Adipose eyelid present. Gill- 
rakers very numerous. Species about 6; chiefly confined to the two temperate zones; all closely related 
to the European sardine, Clupanodon pilchardus, and agreeing with it in the rich and delicate flesh; 
less firm than that of related species, and much richer in oil. Species marine, not anadromous. 
29. Clupanodon pseudohispanicus (Poey). Sardina de Espana; “Sardina.” 
Head 4; depth 3.75 to 4.5; eye 3.75.; D. 16; A. 16; scales about 45. Vertebrae 46 to 48. 
Body slender, little compressed, belly scarcely carinated, its scutes not prominent; mouth small, 
maxillary not quite reaching pupil, 2.6 in head; gillrakers very long, slender, and numerous, 30 to 40 
below angle, the longest two-thirds eye. Lower jaw with a few feeble teeth; some minute teeth on 
tongue. Cheek much longer than deep, their depth below eye two-thirds diameter of eye. Adipose 
eyelid well developed. Opercle with very faint strife, preopercle with very few. Caudal well forked, 
lower lobe as long as head and a little longer than upper; ventrals inserted nearly below middle of 
dorsal, a little nearer base of caudal than tip of snout; pectoral 1.33 in head, a conspicuous sheath of 
scales at base. Intestine 1.5 times length of body. 
Color, bluish with no distinct markings, sides golden and silvery; peritoneum dusky; opercle 
dusky within. 
Found in the Gulf of Mexico from Pensacola and Tampa southward to Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto 
Rico; occasionally taken in numbers at Woods Hole, Mass., whither it is probably carried in the Gulf 
Stream. Called “sardina” in Porto Rico and “bang” in Jamaica. Length 8 inches. Specimens 
taken at Culebra Island. 
Sardinia pscudohispanica Poey , Mem., II, 311, 1861, Cuba; Poey, Fauna Puerto-Riq., 343, 1881; Stahl, 1. c., 80 and 165.1883. 
Qlupanodon pseudophispanicus, Jordan & Evermann, 1. c., 423, 1896, 
