. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 406 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. fin; the head goes about 3£ instead of 4 in standard length and there are 35 anal rays instead of about 29, but it may be that Castelnau had no microscope to aid him in counting or he may have had a dried specimen. The presence of a toothed bone between the intermaxillary and maxillary shows that my specimen is a Neosteus. It also has the following characters: D., 4/14; A., 3/35; P., 2/17; V., 7; C, 15; Sc, circa 34 (some missing in specimen) ; , 12; about 7 predorsal scales, 19 plus 9 abdo
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 406 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. fin; the head goes about 3£ instead of 4 in standard length and there are 35 anal rays instead of about 29, but it may be that Castelnau had no microscope to aid him in counting or he may have had a dried specimen. The presence of a toothed bone between the intermaxillary and maxillary shows that my specimen is a Neosteus. It also has the following characters: D., 4/14; A., 3/35; P., 2/17; V., 7; C, 15; Sc, circa 34 (some missing in specimen) ; , 12; about 7 predorsal scales, 19 plus 9 abdominal scutes and at least 22 gill-rakers below. Fine striae on suborbital and Fig. 13. Ditchelee, Neosteus schlegelii. Fine teeth in jaws, along palatines and edge of maxillae. A dark humeral blotch. A copepod parasite on roof of mouth and a large isopod in gill- slit. Our schlegelii differs from the Indian N. ditchela in having snout shorter than eye-diameter, fewer anal rays, fewer and larger scales. Family Chanidae. Chanos salmoneus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). (Fig. 14.) Here illustrated from a small specimen, 215 mm. in standard length, from Bedwell Point, Northern Territory; Mr. Melbourne Ward (Austr. Mus., Regd. No. ), caught in June, 1938. The small, broad, horseshoe-. 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 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Proceedings. [Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales]
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