The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Trichonotidæ
Trichonotidæ.
Body elongate, subcylindrical, covered with cycloid scales of moderate size. Eyes directed upwards. Teeth in villiform bands. The infraorbital ring does not articulate with the præoperculum. One long dorsal fin, with articulated, not branched rays, and page 78 without a distinct spinous portion; anal long; ventrals jugular, with one spine and five rays. Gill-opening very wide, seven branchiostegals; pseudobranchiæ. No prominent papilla near the anus. Air-bladder and pyloric appendages absent. Caudal vertebræ much more numerous than those of the abdominal portion.
Carnivorous fishes, living near the shores of the East Indian Archipelago and of New Zealand.
Hemerocoetes acanthorhynchus. Coast of New Zealand.