English: Identifier: australianzool7701roya

Title: The Australian zoologist Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Subjects: Zoology Zoology Publisher: [Sydney, etc.] : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences Library

Species: Bregmaceros nectabanus View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book

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Text Appearing Before Image: locality: Eraker Lagoon). In young specimens, the maxillary is completely hidden by preorbitaland the teeth are invisible. The crenulated margins of the body-scales areunsculptured in young, granulated in adult. Family Gadidae. Genus Austrophycis Ogilby, 1897. AusTROPHYcis MEGALOPS Ogilby, 1897. (Fig. 17.) Austrophycis megalops Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxii., 1, September 17, 1897, p. 91. Maroubra, New South Wales. Id. McCulloch, Austr. Zool., ii., 2, 1921, p. 32, and of lists. WHITLEY. 25 Here figured from the holotype (Regd. No. 1.3,655) in The AustralianMuseum. The specimen is very shrivelled about the thorax, the skin isspongy and most of the scales are missing. The anal fin appears tooriginate below the first dorsal fin rather than the dorsal interspace, asstated by Ogilby; practically all the fin-rays are simple and articulated.The opercles are smashed and the ventral fins damaged—I cannot detectmore than two ventral rays. Anal fin with anterior rays lengthened but

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 17. Fork Beard, Austrophycis megalops. Holotype, Maroubra,New South Wales. Also dentition. not separate from the posterior, but it is now difficult to determine theexact contour of the fins. Colour, brownish, with dark edges to unpaired fins. I have searched Maroubra beach, near Sydney, regularly for years with-out finding a second specimen. Ogilbys original label has Mauritiuscrossed out and Maroubra substituted. However, there is no reason todoubt the Australian locality, especially as no species like the present oneappears to have been recorded from Mauritius. Family Bregmacerotidae.Bregmaceros nectabanus, sp. nov.(Fig. 18.)Bregmaceros mcclellandi of Australian authors, non Thompson, 1840. Head rounded with spongy skin which even extends over eyes andopercular spines. Upper jaw the longer, maxillary reaching to below hinderpart of eye. Fine teeth. No barbel. Head, 5.5 mm.; depth of body, 5; mouth, nearly 3; standard length, 33mm. Eye, 1.5; interorbital, less than 1 mm.; pector

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