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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Günther's system, the fourth group of Clupeidœ, with the mouth anterior and lateral, the upper jaw not overlapping the lower, and the abdomen neither carinate nor serrate, and without an osseous gular plate. The group corresponds to the family Dussumieridœ.

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