STENATHERINA new genus 
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Genotype,— At he rina temminckii Sleeker 
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This new genus of Taeniomembrainae is erected to receive the pecular 
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silverside described by Dr, Bleeker as A/ temminckii o f which we have large 
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>ine Islands regi*bn^ It differs from 
series from the Phi 
all other genera 
in this subfamily by having the ascer^fing premaxillary process at front of snout 
long, slender, and extending past fribnt of orbits into the interorbital space 
with a second process or spine like/projection laterally on premaxillary. The 
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chief other differences are diagi^Dsed in the key to the genera of this family. 
As far as known this genus is mdnotypic. 
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It was named Stenatherina in/reference to an Atherine fish wi^h a narrow 
premaxillary process. 
A reexamination of the specimens collected by me in the Hhoenix and Samoan 
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Islands indicate that the fallowing U.S.N.M. Nos. 115112a 115113, are 
Stenatherina temminckii Aas\c\ i/f Uas^Jca , 
