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TABLE 6.—Counts made on subspecies of Ctenolucius hujeta. 
Number of fin rays 
Number of pores in lateral line 
i Dor- Pel 
Subspecies el Anal aa Pectoral 
li, 8 /ili, 7/iii,8) i, 7 |i, 17/1, 18) i, 19} i, 20 }22|/23)24)25|)26)27)28)/29/30/31132)33}34135|36 
PUA j CET URN, EN Aes 7 10 2 5 6 Wes My Oa By eu) OA SW ol a ele ate tee 
insculptus___----.--- 4 LN 38 8 4 2 2 | Baas TW YE SY yp Eee Sea 
Oe ant Ree ENT SNe Aenean 4 8 2 1 Ee NS SM TUE OM ee ak 
Seales in a Number of scales 
Number of scale rows from | transverse 
anterior end of gill opening | row from 
to midbase of caudal fin dorsal ori- 
Around cau- 
Subspecies cin to anus Before dorsal fin dal peduncle 
42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46| 47 | 48} 49 | 50 11 30 | 31 | 82 | 33 | 34} 35 | 36] 16) 17) 18} 19 
UT CEG eee west are een TY) Za GA Ae 5 SSA Wea fie A NNN Pu 3} 1) 2) 1 
insculptusys 2 2 e2es i Ee | | OS | | eee eel 4 | BE Ei y etatss | ae | Pate ae SH gt aa pas 
LAY 11 (k AELOSORO pA ON Ae ESR on Pag] LEO Wa We AF eed ea ee |e 4 zaps) We Ee Mee AAR eae ee 
CTENOLUCIUS HUJETA HUJETA (Valenciennes) 
HvuJETA 
Xiphostoma hujeta VALENCIENNES, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle 
des poissons, vol. 22, p. 358, 1849 (rivers of Maracaibo).—Gtntuer, Cata- 
logue of fishes in the British Museum, vol. 5, p. 358, 1864 (Maracaibo) .— 
EIGENMANN and EIiGENMANN, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 59, 1891 
(Maracaibo). 
Ctenolucius hujeta Myers, Stanford Ichth. Bull., vol. 2, No. 4, p. 94, 1942 (Que- 
brada Sargento, tributary of Rio Limén, north of Maracaibo). 
The following collections were made by Leonard P. Schultz durimg 
1942 in the Maracaibo Basin of Venezuela: 
U.S.N.M. No. 121345, 8 specimens, 98 to 206 mm. in standard length, cafio 
half a mile west of Sinamaica, March 11. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121335, 4 specimens, 37 to 205 mm., from Rio Machango, 20 km. 
above bridge south of Lagunillas, March 21? 
U.S.N.M. No. 121334, 9 examples, 124 to 156 mm., from Rio San Pedro near 
bridge, Motatdn system, March 20. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121344, 10 examples, 98 to 228 mm., from Rio Socuy, 3 km. 
above mouth, February 24. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121336, 7 specimens, 121 to 165 mm., from Rio Negro below 
mouth of Rio Yasa, March 2. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121342, a specimen, 106 mm., from Ciénaga del Guanavana 
about 10 km. north of Sinamaica, March 11. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121341, 3 specimens, 118 to 159 mm., from the Rio Machango 
at the bridge south of Lagunillas, March 16. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121339, 6 examples, 148 to 187 mm., from the Rio Apén about 
35 km. south of Rosario, February 26. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121340, a specimen, 214 mm., from Rio Palmar at bridge, 70 km. 
southwest of Maracaibo, March 6. 
