. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 173 Family Synodontidae. Genus Xystodus Ogilby, 1910. Xystodus Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii., November 7, 1910, p. 5. Ortho- type, X. banfteldi Ogilby [= sageneus Waite, 1905]. Allouarnia Whitley, Austr. Zooi., viii., March 12, 1937, p. 219. Orthotype, Synodus sageneus Waite, 1905. Lizard fishes with palatine teeth in a single band. Large teeth of jaws spear-shaped. A pit, fringed with papillae, behind and below eye. Lateral line present. No adipose dorsal fin (except in young). Pectorals small. About 14 anal rays. Inner ve
. The Australian zoologist. Zoology; Zoology; Zoology. WHITLEY. 173 Family Synodontidae. Genus Xystodus Ogilby, 1910. Xystodus Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii., November 7, 1910, p. 5. Ortho- type, X. banfteldi Ogilby [= sageneus Waite, 1905]. Allouarnia Whitley, Austr. Zooi., viii., March 12, 1937, p. 219. Orthotype, Synodus sageneus Waite, 1905. Lizard fishes with palatine teeth in a single band. Large teeth of jaws spear-shaped. A pit, fringed with papillae, behind and below eye. Lateral line present. No adipose dorsal fin (except in young). Pectorals small. About 14 anal rays. Inner ventral rays much longer than outer. Pelvic bones with short laminar posterior processes. Xystodus sageneus (Waite, 1905). Synodus sageneus Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 2, September 15, 1905, p. 58, pi. viii., fig. 1. Trawled between Fremantle and Houtman's Abrolhos, Western Australia. Type in Western Australian Museum, Perth. Id. Norman, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), April 3, 1935, p. 117. Xystodus banfteldi Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld., xxiii., November 7, 1910, p. 6. Near Dunk Island, Queensland (E. J. Banfield). Type (No. I., 14)' in Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Id. Norman, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), April 3, 1935, p. 101 (Bowen, Qld.).. Fig. 5. Lizard Fish, Xystodus sageneus. No. 1. Holotype of X. banfteldi from near Dunk Island, Queensland. (2) Dentition of palate of same and a spear-shaped tooth enlarged. (3) Pelvic processes and ventral fins of same. (4) A postlarval specimen from Lindeman Island, Queensland. G. P. Whitley, deh Mr. H. Longman, Director of the Queensland Museum, has kindly lent me Ogilby's type of X. banfteldi for figuring. He suggested that owing to a mechanical error, certain features were reversed in the original description which is inaccurate in several respects. Ogilby says, "no lateral line," but one is discernible under the microscope. He says, "dorsal fin inserted mid- way between the tip of the snout and the root of the caudal,"
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