PISCES ABDOMINALES. CLUPEA. 
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The colour of the crown green and blue, the face and opercula splendent white; the ridge of the back a 
rich azure, below which are several green fillets; the rest a bright leaden. The pectoral and caudal fins 
glassy, the others light. 
Inches. Lines. 
The length from the rostrum to the tail - - - 10 o 
of the caudal fin - -20 
Breadth from the back to the abdomen 1 g 
Where narrowest - - - - - - on 
REMARKS. 
This fish never appears at the European tables, but is esteemed by the natives. 
No. CC, 
Clupea corpore sub-cultrato: pinna ani caudali unita. 
The Clupea of a shape somewhat knife-form ; the anal fin united with the caudal. 
Clupea Mystics Linn. S. JV. p. 524. 
Called by the Natives Quala Paragah. 
B. x. D. 13. P. 16. V. 7. A. 62. C. 16. 
The body, particularly the hinder part, more of a knife-form than that of the herring, pellucid, white, the 
scales orbicular, deciduous. 
The head ovate, compressed, the crown grooved, the rostrum obtuse. The mouth oblique, wide; the lower 
jaw shortish, truncate; the upper has a short retroflex process. Teeth very small, ihe tongue and palate 
smooth, the latter very red. Eyes supreme, near the rostrum, orbicular; nostrils double or divided by a valve. 
The branchial opercula two-leaved, thin; the membrane halt discovered; the aperture ai ched. 
The trunk. The back almost straight, convex, the sides compressed; the abdomen prominent, carinate, 
serrated. The branchial denticles long, setaceous; lateral line high, straight; the anus middle. 
The fins. The dorsal nearly middle, small, with thirteen assurgent rays ; the pectoral low, with sixteen 
rays, of which six are very long and setaceous; the ventral exceedingly small; the anal arising near the anus 
is continued to and joined with the caudal; caudal long, lanceolate, somewhat oblique, with about sixteen rays. 
The colour. The head silvery; the rest resplendent white,'with a row of silver dots under and parallel to 
the lateral line, on each side. The fins light, or glassy. 
Length, five inches and a half. 
