. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU 97 Genus ENGRAULIS Cuvier, 1817 Body comparatively thick, subcylindrical; maxillary sometimes failing to reach joint of mandible, never to gill opening; jaws with small teeth of about even size; gill rakers numerous, 26 or more on lower limb of first arch, apparently not increasing in number with age; vertebrae numerous, 46 to 49; the bones generally feeble; the flesh dark and oily; anal fin short in American species, with 20 to 24 rays, its origin under or behind base of dorsal; ventrals inserted under or a little i
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU 97 Genus ENGRAULIS Cuvier, 1817 Body comparatively thick, subcylindrical; maxillary sometimes failing to reach joint of mandible, never to gill opening; jaws with small teeth of about even size; gill rakers numerous, 26 or more on lower limb of first arch, apparently not increasing in number with age; vertebrae numerous, 46 to 49; the bones generally feeble; the flesh dark and oily; anal fin short in American species, with 20 to 24 rays, its origin under or behind base of dorsal; ventrals inserted under or a little in advance of origin of dorsal. A single species comes within the scope of the present work, ENGRAUUS BINGENS Jenyns Anchoveta Figure 20 Engraulis ringens Jenyns, 1842, p. 136, "Iquique, Peru" (original description).— Abbott, 1899, p. 336 (a single specimen reported, without locality, compared with E. mordax).—Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917, p. 23, pi. 3, fig. 1, Chimbote, Lobos de Tierra, and Eten, Peru (note on abundance; descrip- tion).—Nichols and Murphy, 1922, p. 505, Pescadores Island, Peru (notes on abundance; schools described; preyed upon by bonitos and lobos (sea- lions)).—Jordan and Seale, 1926, p. 390, Callao, Peru, and Panama Bay, the latter not this species but Anchoa arenicola (description; compared with E. mordax).-—Fowler, 1941a, p. 235 (references).-—Hildebrand, 1943a, p. 16, fig. 3 (synonymy; description; compared with E. mordax mordax; range).. Figure 20.—Engraulis ringens Jenyns. From a specimen 115 mm. long, Lobos de Tierra Island, Peru ( No. 77522). (After Hildebrand, 1943.) Head to ; depth to in large specimens, about to in young under 90 mm. long; D. 15 to 18; A. 19 to 24; P. 15 to 18, usually 16 or 17; scales about 43 to 47; vertebrae 46 to 49 (seven specimens dissected). Body elongate, not strongly compressed, chest and abdomen moder- ately compressed, with a blunt edge; head rather long and low, its
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