OCR Text |
Show 1867.] MR. G. KREFFT O N N E W AUSTRALIAN FISHES. 943 MIONORUS LUNATUS. B.7. D. 6-1. A. |. The height of the body is equal to one-third of the total length without caudal; cleft of mouth obliquely running upwards, as in the genus Hiiro ; the length of the head is contained twice and one-half in the total length ; the diameter of the eye is less than the length of the snout, and equal to the space between the eyes. The pectorals are rather narrow at the base, with eleven rays, situated just above the ventrals, which are furnished with one spine and five rays. The anal has two spines and nine rays. There are only six spines in the first dorsal, the first of which is the smallest, the last being about as long again as the first; the third spine is the longest, and is but slightly larger than the diameter of the eye. A short space, about the length of the last spine, divides the first from the second dorsal, which has one spine and nine rays. The scales are of moderate size, thirty on the lateral line. Coloration uniform brownish; all the scales dotted with small black spots forming crescent-shaped and triangular marks on the sides. Caudalis truncated. Hab. Cox's River, County Philip, N e w South Wales. DULES VIVERRINUS. D. ii. A. -|. P.15. V. 4. L. lat. 58 to 60. 1 1 9 5 The height of the body is one-third of the total length (without caudal fin) ; the diameter of the eye is equal to the length of the snout, as long as the space between the eyes, and nearly one-fourth of the length of the head. There are two spines on the operculum, the lower one with two points. Caudalis truncated; the fourth and fifth dorsal spine longest. Coloration uniform silvery on the sides ; the lateral line divides the brownish and silvery hues; all the scales dotted with fine black spots, those of the sides having a free space in the centre. Fins black-dotted, and the first ray of the ventral fin tapering into a long filament, which is equal to the. length of the head. Hab. Murray River and its tributaries. Fam. GALAXL2E. GALAXIAS WATERHOUSII. D. 11. A. 15. P. 13. V. 7. Body stout, its depth in front of the dorsal fin being nearly one-eighth of the total length without caudal. The length of the head is one-sixth of the total without caudal, and equal to the height of the body. Eye of moderate size, one-fourth of the length of the head, and equal to the extent of the snout. The length of the pectoral fin is one-third of the space between its root and that of the ventral; the ventrals are of the same length, and almost in the middle between the vent and the root of the pectorals. The anal, if |