CHARACINIDAE FROM VENEZUELA—SCHULTZ Pars) 
3a. Scale rows from upper edge of gill opening to base of caudal fin 20; anal 
rays about iii, 39 to ili, 41; dorsal about iii, 12; pectoral about i, 11; 
usually 2 or 3 teeth in outer premaxillary row. 
' Thoracocharax stellatus (Kner) 
3b. Seale rows from upper edge of gill opening to hase of caudal fin about 29 
to 31; anal rays iii, 27 to 33; dorsal usually ii, 9; pectoral usually i, 10 
or i, 11; gill rakers usually 4 to 8 + 11 to 15; usually but one tooth in 
outer ee, row. 
4a. Below base of each dorsal ray along distal tips of each pterygiophore 
are short black streaks giving appearance of a black blotch at base of 
dorsal fin; anal rays usually iii, 29 to iii, 31 (see table) (Magdalena 
and Maracaibo Basins). 
Thoracocharax maculatus magdalenae Higenmann 
4b. Black spot below base of dorsal fin absent or nearly so; anal rays usually 
iii, 30 to iii, 32 (Pacific slope of Panama and in Rio San Juan ani Rio 
Atrato in Coltnbia)., 
Thoracocharax maculatus maculatus (Steindachner) 16 
Genus CARNEGIELLA Eigenmann 
Carnegiella EIGENMANN, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 13, 1909. (Type, 
Gasteropelecus strigata Ginther.) 
CARNEGIELLA MARTHAE Myers 
Carnegiella marthae Myers, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, No. 3, p. 119, 1927 
(Cafio de Quiribana, near Caicara and opposite Pan de Azucar, and creek 
into Laguna San Raphael, Caicara, all Venezuela); Stanford Ichth. Bull., 
vol. 2, No. 4, p. 98, 1942 (Rio Orinoco). 
Genus THORACOCHARAX Fowler 
Thoracocharax FowuER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 58, p. 452, 1906. 
(Type, Gasteropelecus stellatus Kner.) 
THORACOCHARAX STELLATUS (Kner) 
_ Gasteropelecus stellatus Kner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 18, p. 17, pl. 1, 
fig. 2, 1859 (Rio Cujaba).—PELLEGRIN, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 5, 
p. 157, 1899 (Apure River, Venezuela). 
Thoracocharax stellatus EIGENMANN and ALLEN, Fishes of western South America, 
p. 268, 1942 (Orinoco). 
THORACOCHARAX MACULATUS MAGDALENAE Eigenmann 
Thoracocharax magdalenae EIGENMANN, Indiana Univ. Bull., vol. 10, No. 8, p. 25, 
1912 (Girardot, Colombia). 
The following collections were made by Leonard P. Schultz during 
1942 in the Maracaibo Basin of Venezuela: 
U.S.N.M. No. 121423, 66 specimens, 33 to 48 mm. in standard length, taken 
March 16, in the Rio Machango at bridge, south of Lagunillas, Estado de Zulia, 
U.S.N.M No. 121421, 3 examples, 38 to 46 mm., taken February 26, in a 
stagnant pool of Rfo San Ignacio, about 20 km. south of Rosario. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121422, 14 examples, 12 to 45 mm., March 2, from Rfo Negro 
below mouth of Rio aes 
16 Not reported from Venezuela. 
