CHARACINIDAE FROM VENEZUELA—SCHULTZ 311 
Genus PARAGONIATES Steindachner 
Paragoniates SvEINDACHNER, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 74, p. 69, pl. 8, fig. 3, 
1876. (Type, Paragoniates alburnus Steindachner.) 
PARAGONIATES ALBURNUS Steindachner 
Paragoniates alburnus STEINDACHNER, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 74, p. 69, 
pl. 8, fig. 3, 1876 (Amazon River at Teffé). 
A specimen, 59 mm. in standard length, collected at Caripito, 
Venezuela, 1942, by Dr. William Beebe, was kindly turned over to me 
for study and report. A brief description of this specimen follows, all 
measurements being expressed in hundredths of the standard length, 
which is 59 mm. 
Length of head 25.3; greatest depth 31.4; length of snout 7.12; 
eye 9.15; interorbital space 8.98; postorbital length of head 10.7; tip 
of snout to rear of maxillary 12.9; least depth of caudal peduncle 11.9; 
length of caudal peduncle from base of last anal ray to midcaudal fin 
base 7.97; length of anal fin base 43.6; longest anal ray 15.7; longest 
dorsal ray 20.7 ; longest pectoral ray 24.6; longest pelvic ray 20.0; length 
of upper caudal fin lobe 26.3 and of lower lobe 29.7; distance from snout 
tip to dorsal origin 60.2; snout to anal origin 56.0; snout to adipose 
origin 90.6; snout to pelvic insertion 40.6 and to pectoral insertion 
27.1; snout to anus 50.8; snout to occiput 20.5. 
The following counts were made: Dorsal rays ii, 9; anal vi, 40; 
pelvic i, 7-1, 7; pectoral i, 13-1, 13; scales 39, above lateral line to 
dorsal origin 7 and below it to pelvic insertion 4; pores in lateral line 
13; scales in front of dorsal 18; 2! scale rows in anal sheath anteriorly 
and 2 posteriorly; gill rakers 7-+1-+10; branched caudal fin rays 16. 
Genus PHENAGONIATES Eigenmann and Wilson 
Phenagoniates EIGENMANN and Wiuson, in Eigenmann, Henn, and Wilson, In- 
diana Univ. Stud., No. 19, p. 2, 1914. (Type, Phenagoniates wilsoni Kigen- 
mann.) 
PHENAGONIATES MACROLEPIS (Meek and Hildebrand) 
Roeboides macrolepis MmnEK and H1LDEBRAND, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. Zoo 1. 
vol. 10, No. 8, p. 84, 1913 (Rio Cupe, Boca de Cupe, Rio Tuyra Basin). 
Phenagoniates wilsont EYGENMANN, in Higenmann, Henn, and Wilson, Indiana 
Univ. Stud., No. 19, p. 2, 1914 (Manigru; Certegui; Truando). 
Phanagoniates macrelepis Mmnx and HitpEBRAND, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 
Zool., vol. 10, p. 272, 1916 (Rio Tuyra Basin).—Hiaenmann, Mem. Carnegie 
Mus., vol. 7, p. 43, pl. 5, fig. 1, 1916 (Manigru; Certegui; Truando).— 
EIGENMANN, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 9, No. 1, p. 128, 1922 (Atrato and 
Tuyra Basins) —BrepeEr, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 57, p. £17, 1927 
(Rio Chico; Rio Sucubti)—Hi_pEBRAND, Field Museum Nat. Hist., Publ. 
Zool., vol. 22, No. 4, p. 249, 1988 (Tuyra and Atrato Basins). 
Peay snidies macrolepis Myers, Stanford Ichth. Bull., vol. 2, No. 4, p. 91, 1942 
(Maracaibo Basin). 
The following collections were made by Leonard P. Schultz in the 
Maracaibo Basin of Venezuela during 1942: 
