. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 417 Gunther's species is not altipennis Cuv. & Val. It may be a subspecies of katoptron Bleeker (published about the same time as robustus) from Sumatra, but I retain the name robustus for the (south-western?) Australian fish, of which I have seen Fremantle specimens. Exocoetus robustus Baird (Science, viii., July 2, 1886, p. 11, fig. 1) from the Cape Verde Islands, is a different species altogether, with A. 10 and pectoral fin with a median light area. Family Holocenthridae. Ostichthys australis (Castelnau, 1875). (Fig.
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 417 Gunther's species is not altipennis Cuv. & Val. It may be a subspecies of katoptron Bleeker (published about the same time as robustus) from Sumatra, but I retain the name robustus for the (south-western?) Australian fish, of which I have seen Fremantle specimens. Exocoetus robustus Baird (Science, viii., July 2, 1886, p. 11, fig. 1) from the Cape Verde Islands, is a different species altogether, with A. 10 and pectoral fin with a median light area. Family Holocenthridae. Ostichthys australis (Castelnau, 1875). (Fig. 28.) Myripristes australis Castelnau, Vict. Offic. Rec. Philad. Exhib., 1875, Res. Fish. Austr., p. 4. Cape York, Queensland. Ostichthys australis Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., ix., 1908, p. 30. "Type" [of Ogilby's description, not Castelnau's species] in Queensland Museum. Id. McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem., v., 1929, p. 134. Several nominal genera and species of Squirrel Fishes have been re- corded from tropical Australia, some of which have not been identified since first defined. I give here the first published illustration of an Aus- tralian specimen of the family Holocenthridae. , 14; , 12; , 14; , 7; C, 17. , 28. , 2£/l/5£. Nine predorsal scales. Head (44 mm.) about 3, depth (51), in standard length (130). Eye (21 mm.) more than twice interorbital (10). Snout, 6 mm.; longest (fourth) dorsal spine, 19; third anal spine, 15; postorbital, 17; least depth of caudal peduncle, 11. Head bulbous, rugose. Two main interorbital ridges, with a short ridge on each side; posteriorly these expand into several fan-like ridges. Opercles strongly serrate. No enlarged preopercular spine. Eyes very GPW. Squirrel Fish, Ostichthys australis. Maxillary broad, strongly striate. Bands of regular tubercular or villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, palatines, and base of tongue. A few tubercular teeth on chin, in a small patch on each side; above these are t
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