PISCES ABDOMINALES. CLUPEA. 
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No. CXCVII. 
Clupea cor pore ovato; radio postremo pinna dorsi setaceo, longo: ossicidis membrana bran- 
chialis latissimis. 
The Clupea with an ovate body; the last ray of the dorsal fin long and setaceous; the 
ossicles of the branchial membrane remarkably broad. 
Clupea JVasus, Bloch. Pl. 429. 
Called by the Natives Pedda Kome. 
B. v. D. 16. P. 15. V. 8. A. 22. C. 24. 
This, with a strong resemblance to the last, is held by the fishermen to be a distinct fish. The rays of the 
branchial membrane remarkably broad ; the nostrils distant from each other; the anal fin more falcate; eight 
rays only in the ventral; and the lateral line more obscure. These variations appeared to be constant: in 
other respects, the description of the last fish may serve equally for the present. 
Length, nine inches six lines. 
Neither of them are common at Vizagapatam. 
No. CXCVIII. 
Clupea corpore ovato; pinna caudee squamosa; squama longa , acuminata, ad pumas 
pectorales. 
The Clupea with an ovate body ; the caudal fin squamous ; a long pointed scale at the 
pectoral fins. 
Called by the Natives Palasah. 
B. vi. D. 18. P. 15. V. 9. A. 20. C. 28. 
The body broader, rounder, and thicker than usual in this genus; but the breast and abdomen carinate and 
serrate. The scales large, loose, and singularly extended on the anal and caudal fin. 
The head large, without scales, compressed, and, when the mouth is shut, obtuse; the front declivous, 
depressed; the rostrum blunt. The mouth a little oblique, lips thin ; the jaws equal, the upper, as usual, covers 
the under, but has a dent at the point for the reception of a small protuberance on the lower jaw: both are 
without teeth. The tongue and palate smooth. The branchial opercula large, round, without scales, 
splendent; the membrane has six ossicles. The branchial denticles setaceous. No visible lateral line. The 
anus remote. 
The Jins. The dorsal middle, of eighteen declining rays; the pectoral low, with a long, curve pointed 
squama at the root, consists of fifteen rays, acuminate, slightly falcate, and three inches long; the ventral 
opposite to the middle of the dorsal, acuminate above, has nine rays almost one half shorter; the anal 
remote, with twenty declining, short rays ; the caudal fin bifid, and very remarkably squamous. 
The colour. The crown a dark green, the face and opercula splendent white; the back changeable blue. 
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