. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. New Zealand Galaxiidae • McDowall 353. Figure 4. Galaxias argenteus (Gmelin), 280 mm , Little Waitangi Stream, Pauatahanui Inlet. 284; 1896: 317; 1904: 51; Regan, 1905: 375; Waite, 1907: 12; Phillipps, 1927a: 13; Stokell, 1949: 493; 1954: 419. Galaxias forsteri Valenciennes, In Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846: 531 (replacement name for Esox alepidotus Bloch and Schneider, 1801). Galaxias grandis Haast, 1872: 278 (holotype apparently lost, see Stokell, 1949: 493; locality creeks near Lake Ellesmere); Hutton, 1874 1
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. New Zealand Galaxiidae • McDowall 353. Figure 4. Galaxias argenteus (Gmelin), 280 mm , Little Waitangi Stream, Pauatahanui Inlet. 284; 1896: 317; 1904: 51; Regan, 1905: 375; Waite, 1907: 12; Phillipps, 1927a: 13; Stokell, 1949: 493; 1954: 419. Galaxias forsteri Valenciennes, In Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846: 531 (replacement name for Esox alepidotus Bloch and Schneider, 1801). Galaxias grandis Haast, 1872: 278 (holotype apparently lost, see Stokell, 1949: 493; locality creeks near Lake Ellesmere); Hutton, 1874 107; 1904: 51. Galaxias kokopu Clarke, 1899: 88 (holotype: unknown; locality: western slopes, South Island); Hutton, 1904: 51. Galaxias argenteus: Whitley and Phillipps, 1940: 230 (partim); Stokell, 1960: 235. Diagnosis. Differs from G. fasciatus Gray (Fig. 6) in coloration and in having very strongly developed pyloric caeca, longer head, more posterior pelvic insertion, higher depth of caudal peduncle/length of caudal peduncle ratio and jaw in head ratio (, longer jaws), eye further for- ward in head and somewhat higher pec- toral fin ray counts. Overlap in most of these characters is considerable and color- ation is the most useful character. G. ar- genteus has numerous, small, irregular, gold spots on the dark trunk, while G. fasciatus has more regular vertical pale bands. Differs from G. postvectis Clarke (Fig. 9) in coloration, in having stronger de- velopment of canine teeth in the jaws, much longer head and jaws, the jaws sub- equal, the eye further forward in the head, longer anal fin base, more posterior pelvic fin insertion, more anal fin rays, and some- what higher numbers of branchiostegals and gill rakers. Coloration is again the most useful means of differentiating these species, jaw length, especially the short- ened lower jaw in G. postvectis also ena- bling easy separation. Description. Stout bodied, trunk some- what rectangular in section and flattened do
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