Zoological results of the fishing experiments carried on by "Endeavour," 1909-14 under Dannevig, commonwealth director of fisheries Volume 1-5 . tal spacewhich is 2, in the same. Sixth dorsal spine ,longest ray , and third anal spine in the of anal fin in that of the dorsal. The above are the proportions of three specimens, 100-126 , which are evidently very similar to H. mediterraneus, asoriginally described and figured by Cuvier and differ however in being deeper and rounder, and in havingonly nine inst
Zoological results of the fishing experiments carried on by "Endeavour," 1909-14 under Dannevig, commonwealth director of fisheries Volume 1-5 . tal spacewhich is 2, in the same. Sixth dorsal spine ,longest ray , and third anal spine in the of anal fin in that of the dorsal. The above are the proportions of three specimens, 100-126 , which are evidently very similar to H. mediterraneus, asoriginally described and figured by Cuvier and differ however in being deeper and rounder, and in havingonly nine instead of ten anal rays. According to Goode and Bean,the number of rays in the dorsal and anal fins is subject to con-siderable variation (DJ2-15; ), but in forty-five specimens,representing three species, I find them to vary very little. In the 1 Trachichthys elongatus, Giinther ( Challenger Rept., Zool., xxii.,1887, p. 22) agrees in all its important structural details withHoplostethus. Ogilby has placed it in Paratrachichthys, Waite (Ogilby,Mem. Qld. Mus., i., 1912, p. 43) but it has no affinity with that genus. 98 ENDEAVOlK SCIENTIFIC Fig. 5. Boplostelhus mediterraneus var. latus, McCulloch. FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 99
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