Discovery reports (1937) Discovery reports discoveryreports16inst Year: 1937 GEMPYLIDAE 97 This is the species known in South Africa as ' Snoek', in Australia and New Zealand as ' Barracouta', and in Chile as 'Sierra'. jgSMSimzz Fig. 48. Thyrsites atun. x J. SCOMBRIDAE Genus Gasterochisma, Richardson 1845, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, p. 346; Richardson, 1S46, Zool. 'Erebus' and' Terror', Fishes, p. 60; Regan, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) x, p. 120. Type G. melampus, Richardson. Lepidothynnus, Giinther, 1889, Pelagic Fish. 'Challenger', p. 15. Type L. huttoni, Giinther. Chenogaster, Lahill
Discovery reports (1937) Discovery reports discoveryreports16inst Year: 1937 GEMPYLIDAE 97 This is the species known in South Africa as ' Snoek', in Australia and New Zealand as ' Barracouta', and in Chile as 'Sierra'. jgSMSimzz Fig. 48. Thyrsites atun. x J. SCOMBRIDAE Genus Gasterochisma, Richardson 1845, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, p. 346; Richardson, 1S46, Zool. 'Erebus' and' Terror', Fishes, p. 60; Regan, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) x, p. 120. Type G. melampus, Richardson. Lepidothynnus, Giinther, 1889, Pelagic Fish. 'Challenger', p. 15. Type L. huttoni, Giinther. Chenogaster, Lahille, 1903, Anal. Mus. Nac. B. Aires, ix, p. 375; Lahille, 1905, Anal. Mas. Nac. B. Aires, xi, p. 461. Type C. holmbergi, Lahille. The systematic position of this genus is clearly with the Scombridae rather than with the Stromateidae, as has been shown by Regan. There is probably only a single species. Gasterochisma melampus, Richardson. Gasterochisma melampus, Richardson, 1845, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xv, p. 346; Richardson, 1846, Zool. 'Erebus' and' Terror', Fishes, p. 60, pi. xxxvii, figs. 1-3; Regan, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) x, p. 120; Stead, 1907, Add. Fish-Fauna Wales [1], p. 21, pi. vi; Waite, 1913, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., xlv, p. 220, pi. viii; McCulloch, 1922, Austral. Zool, 11, p. 104, pi. xxxiii, fig. 287a; Phillipps, 1927, N. Zealand Mar. Dept. Fish. Bull, 1, p. 45. Lepidothynnus huttoni, Giinther, 1889, Pelagic Fish. 'Challenger', p. 15, pi. vi, fig. A. Chenogaster holmbergi, Lahille, 1903, Anal Mus. Nac. B. Aires, ix, p. 375; Lahille, 1905, Anal Mus. Nac. B. Aires, xi, p. 461, pi. i. Gasterochisma boulengeri, Lahille, 1913, Anal. Mus. Nac. B. Aires, xxiv, p. 8, pis. iii, iv, text-fig. 2. Hab. Southern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. No specimens of this interesting oceanic species were obtained by the Discovery Expedition, but Mr Hamilton has sent portions of a damaged skeleton from the Falkland Islands, together with a photograph of a stuffed specimen, nearly 4
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