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PISCES ABDOMINALES CLUPEA. 
The fins. The position and shape of the fins are the same in both, the dorsal only higher, thicker, and 
more falcate. 
The colour. The upper part of the head and back greenish, less changeable than in the Kowal; the 
face and sides bright silver; the belly pearl-white. The fins glassy; the dorsal, anal, and caudal of a light 
greenish cast. 
The length six inches; but they grow to eight or ten. 
REMARKS. 
With the smell and flavour of the herring, they are much inferior to the Kowal. They are les abundant, and 
less in request. The spots have some resemblance to the Clupea Alosa; but that fish has eight branchial 
rays, and differs in several other respects. 
No. CNCVI. 
Clupea corpore ovato ; radio postremo pinna dorsi longissimo , setaceo. 
The Clupea with an ovate body ; the hinder ray of the dorsal fin very long, and setaceous. 
Clupea Thrissa Linn. S. N. p. 5 24. 
Bloch. PI. 40 4. 
Called by the Natives Kome. 
B. V. D. 16. P. 16. V. 9. A. 25. C. 24. 
The body ovate, compressed; scales somewhat orbicular, imbricate, deciduous. 
The head small, declivous, compressed, without scales; the front smooth, rostrum obtuse, projecting over 
the mouth. Mouth nearly transverse, small; jaws hardly extractile, without teeth; no lips. Tongue very 
small, smooth, fixed; the anterior part of the palate slightly tuberculate. Eyes middle, orbicular; iris pearl- 
colour ; nostril in the middle between the orbit and the rostrum, divided by a valve. The branchial opercula 
seemingly three-leaved, the posterior somewhat shield-form, smooth, splendent; the membrane easily dis¬ 
covered ; the aperture large, somewhat angular. 
The trunk. The back arched, at first carinate, afterwards a little convex; the breast and abdomen canna- 
serrated; the sides and tail compressed. The denticles of the exterior branchial very long. Lateral line middle, 
straight. The anus remote. 
The fins. The dorsal middle, a little falcate, the last ray setaceous, reaching to the tail; the pectoral low, 
nearly as long as the head, acuminate above; the ventral half as long as the pectoral, opposite to the beginning 
of the dorsal; the anal consists of twenty five rays, nearly of equal length; the caudal fin bifid. 
The colour. The crown of the head greenish, the rest white; the upper part of the opercula gilded; the 
back changeable, less brilliant than in the Kowal; several dusky horizontal fillets above the lateral line hardly 
visible when the fish is dead; the sides of a pearl-colour mixed with gold, changeable; the abdomen white; 
the dorsal and caudal fins have a yellowish tinge. 
Length seven inches. 
