. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology . P. J. P. WHITEHEAD e^ , TOBAGO. Fig. I. The area covered in this study, extending from Trinidad up to but not including the Amazon mouth. the Gulf of Mexico (tip of Florida round to Yucatan, through Cuba and, with diminishing representation, to Hispaniola and Jamaica), the second comprising the general Caribbean area, coasts of Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil (with pockets in the mud shadows of river mouths from Colombia to Nicaragua). Because of inadequate collections, however, it is still not clear to what
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology . P. J. P. WHITEHEAD e^ , TOBAGO. Fig. I. The area covered in this study, extending from Trinidad up to but not including the Amazon mouth. the Gulf of Mexico (tip of Florida round to Yucatan, through Cuba and, with diminishing representation, to Hispaniola and Jamaica), the second comprising the general Caribbean area, coasts of Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil (with pockets in the mud shadows of river mouths from Colombia to Nicaragua). Because of inadequate collections, however, it is still not clear to what extent the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean are distinct faunal units as far as the clupeoid fishes are concerned. Certainly, there are species whose recorded distribution reaches southward from Florida through the Caribbean to Brazil ( Harengula jaguana, species of Sardinella, Anchoa hepsetus), but the status of the southerly forms is often based on only a few specimens. Conversely, the paucity of recorded material from the Guianas region has resulted in a number of perhaps spurious discontinuities ( Brevoortia - see p. 56). The present study tends more to draw attention to such problems than to solve them. For the Guianas region there is no modern work that includes all the clupeoid fishes, although those species with a more northerly distribution can be found, if. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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