CHARACINIDAE FROM VENEZUELA—SCHULTZ 339 
Body a little compressed, depth 3 to 4 and head 3% to 4, in stand- 
ard length; snout bluntly rounded, projecting in front of lower 
jaw, so that when the mouth is closed the two most anterior teeth on 
the premaxillary are fully exposed; mouth when closed on level of lower 
edge of eye; posterior tip of maxillary under front of eye; second 
suborbital covering about two-thirds of the cheek, its greatest width 
equal to %4 eye and ventrally and posteriorly not in contact with the 
preopercle; interorbital space convex, nearly equal to eye and about 
equal to length of snout; eye diameter a little greater than length of 
snout; dorsal and ventral profiles nearly equal, the greatest depth 
at origin of dorsal; anterior margin of nasal opening with a short 
papilla projecting into opening, anterior and posterior nasal openings 
Figure 49.—Creagrutus bolivari, new species: Holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 121497, 51.5 mms 
: in standard length. 
separated by a flap of skin; dorsal origin over or usually a little in 
front of vertical line through pelvic insertion; a vertical line through 
adipose origin, passing just behind the base of last anal ray; a 
vertical line through anal origin passes one-third to one-half way 
out the depressed last dorsal ray; caudal peduncle nearly an eye 
diameter longer than anal fin base; gill rakers about 5+9, very 
short on anterior part of the first gill arch, much longer on lower part 
of arch; gill membranes free from the isthmus; lateral line complete, 
a little decurved anteriorly; teeth tricuspid, arranged essentially as 
shown. in figure 48 of C. hildebrandi; maxillary usually with 3 teeth; 
mandible usually with 5 teeth on each side, the 3 anterior ones on 
each side enlarged, also tricuspid; breast and predorsal area rounded, 
evenly and normally scaled; pectorals not quite reaching pelvic in- 
sertions and pelvics not quite reaching anal origin; distal margins of 
dorsal and anal fins a little concave, that of the paired fins a little 
convex; caudal fin forked, the lobes nearly equal in length and scaled 
out as far as about one-fourth to two-fifths their length; intestine 
with one main loop; several pyloric caeca. 
