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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Scombresocidæ

Scombresocidæ.

Body covered with scales; a series of keeled scales along each side of the belly. Margin of the upper jaw formed by the intermaxillaries mesially, and by the maxillaries laterally. Lower pharyngeals united into a single bone. Dorsal fin opposite the anal, belonging to the caudal portion of the vertebral column. Adipose fin none. Air-bladder generally present, simple, sometimes cellular, without pneumatic duct. Pseudobranchiæ hidden, glandular. Stomach not distinct from the intestine, which is quite straight, without appendages.

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Marine fishes of the temperate and tropical zones, many species entering or inhabiting fresh waters. Belone depressa. North-west coast.

——ferox. Port Jackson.

——Krefftii. Hunter River.

Scombresox Forsterii. New Zealand.

Hemirhamphus regularis. Australian coast. "Gar-fish."

——robustus. Tasmania.

——intermedius. Tasmania.

Arrhamphus sclerolepis. Fitzroy River, Queensland.

Exocœtus robustus. Australian coast.

——nigripinnis. West coast.