. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY 237 Family PLOTOSIDAE Genus NEOSILURUS Steindachner, 1867. NEOSILURUS BREVIDORSALIS (Gunther). (Figure 2). Copidoglanis brevidorsalis Gunther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3)20: 66. Cape York, Queensland and Nicol Bay, W. Australia. Id. Macleay, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. 6:207; Cat. Austr. Fish. 2, 1882:143. Id. Weber, 1913, Nova Guinea 9: 526, 527, 530, 532, 604 and 607 (Lorentz River. New Guinea). Id. Weber and Beaufort, 1913, Fish. Indo-Austr. Archip. 2:241. Neosilurus brevidorsalis Steindachner, 1867, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wis
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY 237 Family PLOTOSIDAE Genus NEOSILURUS Steindachner, 1867. NEOSILURUS BREVIDORSALIS (Gunther). (Figure 2). Copidoglanis brevidorsalis Gunther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3)20: 66. Cape York, Queensland and Nicol Bay, W. Australia. Id. Macleay, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. 6:207; Cat. Austr. Fish. 2, 1882:143. Id. Weber, 1913, Nova Guinea 9: 526, 527, 530, 532, 604 and 607 (Lorentz River. New Guinea). Id. Weber and Beaufort, 1913, Fish. Indo-Austr. Archip. 2:241. Neosilurus brevidorsalis Steindachner, 1867, Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 56(1): 319 (Cape York. Described). Id. Troschel, 1870, Archiv Naturges. (Weigmann) 36 (4): 276 Cape York. Sex-dimorphism. A female without ventral fins. But see Gunther, 1873, Zool. Rec. 1871, Pisces: 104, for discussion. Id. Ogilby, 1908, Ann. Q'ld. Mus. 9:14. Id. Weber, 1911, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. 34:21 (Aru Islands). Id. Whitley, 1938, Rec. Austr. Mus. 20:223 (Upper Fly River, New Guinea). Id. Whitley, 1947, Nat. 1:53. Id. Whitley, 1957, Australasian Aqua Life 2(6): 10. Id. Munro, 1957, Fisheries Newsletter, April 1957:16, Hbk. Austr. Fish. 10:42, no. 301. Copidoqlanis (Neosilurus) brevidorsalis Rendahl, 1922, Medd. Zool. Mus. Kristiania 5:172. Tandanus (Neosilurus) brevidorsalis McCulloch and Whitley, 1925, Mem. Q'ld. Mus. 8(2): 134. Id. McCulloch, 1929, Austr. Mus. Mem. 5:57. The bibliography of this species is here assembled and it is figured for the first time from a Papuan specimen, from the Upper Fly River, 225 mm. (nearly 9 inches) long (Austr. Mus. regd. no. ).. Figure 2—Catfish, Neosilurus brevidorsalis. Papuan specimen. G. P. Whitley del. Family SOLEIDAE. Genus ASERAGGODES Kaup, 1858. ASERAGGODES GUTTULATUS Kaup. Aseraggodes guttulatus Kaup, 1858, Arch. Naturges., 24 (1): 103. No locality. Id. Chabanaud, 1927, Bull. Inst. Oceanogr. Monaco, 500: 14. Id. Chabanaud, 1930, Zool. Meded., 13: 185 & 190. Id. Chabanaud, 1931, Bull. Soc. Zool
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