PISCES ABDOMINALES. CLUPEA. 
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REMARKS. 
The number of branchial rays, and the carina of the abdomen not serrated, are remarkable deviations from 
the character of the Clupea, if the present subject belongs to that genus. An accident prevented my getting a 
drawing made of it. 
No. CCIII. 
Clupea corpore oblongo, squamis permagnis ; radio ultimo pinna dorsi longo, setaceo. 
The Clupea with an oblong body ; very large scales ; the last ray of the dorsal fin long 
and setaceous. 
Clupea Gyprinoides, Linn. Ed. Gmel. p. 1407. 
Called by the Natives Kundinga. 
B. xxiii. D. 18. P. 15. V. 9. A. 25. C. 26. 
The body oblong, compressed, smooth; scales very large, orbicular, with a white, membranous margin. 
The bead declivous, compressed, without scales; the front depressed, furrowed; the rostrum obtuse. The 
mouth low, a little oblique, large; no lips. The upper jaw extractile, the lower ascendent, truncate: both 
rough like a file. Tongue small, ovate, loose, and, as well as the palate, rough. Eyes supreme, very large, 
orbicular, covered with the common skin. Nostrils double, the anterior small, round, the posterior oval. The 
branchial opercula two-leaved, rounded, smooth, shining; the membrane exposed, with twenty-three slender 
ossicles ; the aperture large, covered below by the membrane. 
The trunk. The back slightly arched, a little rounded; the sides compressed, convex; the breast and 
abdomen straight, almost plane, not carinate nor serrated. The denticles of the exterior branchiae very long, 
the others decreasing gradually in length. The lateral line bends down at first towards the pectoral fin, after¬ 
wards becomes middle and straight: very conspicuous, from the scales being singularly striated. The anus 
remote, linear. 
The Jins. The dorsal in the middle of the back consists of seven assurgent and eleven declining rays, of 
which the last is setaceous, three inches in length; the pectoral low, large, acuminate above; the ventral of 
the same shape: both have a large, sharp, sub-falcate squama at their roots; the anal fin remote, sub-lunate, 
the first and last ray slightly setaceous ; the caudal fin deeply bifid. 
The colour. The upper part of the head and front greenish; the face and opercula bright silver and golden. 
The back changeable like that of a herring; below the line pearl-colour; the breast and belly mother-of-pearl. 
The dorsal and caudal fins a little darkish; the others glassy or light. 
Inches. Lines. 
The length from the nose to the tail - - - io 4 
to the branchial aperture - - 2 6 
of the caudal fin ----- 2 8 
REMARKS. 
The serrated carinse of the abdomen forming a principal generic character of the Clupea, the want of it in 
this and the preceding species, left me doubtful whether they were properly placed here: the agreement, how¬ 
ever, in other characters (the remarkable difference in the number of branchial ossicles excepted,) induced me 
not to separate them from this genus. 
Having since my return from India, found that the Clupea Cyprinoides, notwithstanding the number of 
branchial ossicles, and the smooth abdomen, had been admitted by Bloch and Graelin, I have no remaining 
doubt of the Marrawa being a Clupea. 
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