. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 420 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. top of back, also there is a tendency to form rows of darker olive or brownish on lower part of flanks. Belly whitish. Eye blue. A blue dot on opercular flap. A conspicuous black ocellus, bordered above and below with orange, at base of tail. Described and figured from the holotype, 21 mm,, in standard length, or about one inch overall, the larger of two specimens () from Moreton Island, Queensland, 27/6/40, received from Dr. Hamlyn-Harris. Eight paratypes () in the Australian Museu
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. 420 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. top of back, also there is a tendency to form rows of darker olive or brownish on lower part of flanks. Belly whitish. Eye blue. A blue dot on opercular flap. A conspicuous black ocellus, bordered above and below with orange, at base of tail. Described and figured from the holotype, 21 mm,, in standard length, or about one inch overall, the larger of two specimens () from Moreton Island, Queensland, 27/6/40, received from Dr. Hamlyn-Harris. Eight paratypes () in the Australian Museum, from 30 miles inland from Coraki, Richmond River, New South Wales (Hugh James). Range: Southern Queensland and northern rivers of New South Wales (Oxleyan faunal region, Krefftian fluvifaunula) ; freshwater. A small ally, up to 1£ in. long, of the Pigmy Perch, Nannoperca australis Gunther, 1861, from which it differs in having deeper body, larger and fewer scales, ocellus on tail and in minor characters. Family Epigonidae. Scepterias lenimen Whitley, 1935. (Fig. 33.) Scepterias lenimen Whitley, Rec. Austr. Mus., xix., 4, September 19, 1935, p. 230. Great Australian Bight and Fig. 33. Deepsea Big-eye, Scepterias lenimen. Holotype. Here illustrated from the holotype (No. ), 92 mm. in standard length or 4£ inches overall, from 190-320 fathoms from Eucla, Great Australian Bight. Family Carangidae. Caranx valenciennei Castelnau, 1873. (Fig. 34.) Here figured from the lectotype of the species, the larger of two specimens numbered 6434A in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, where I sketched it in 1937. Interorbital, 6 mm. Snout very slightly longer than eye. Teeth well developed on jaws and vomer. ; Breast scaly. About forty scutes on straight portion of lateral line plus some very small ones at root of tail. No dark humeral blotch. Standard length, 100 mm. Locality.—Noble [or Knob] Island, Please note that the
Size: 2451px × 1019px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectzoology, bookyear1914
