The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Gonorhynchidæ
Gonorhynchidæ.
Head and body entirely covered with spiny scales; mouth with barbels. Margin of the upper jaw formed by the intermaxillary, which, although short, is continued downwards as a thick lip, situated in front of the maxillary. Adipose fin none; the dorsal fin is opposite to the ventrals, and short, like the anal. Stomach simple, without blind sac; pyloric appendages in small number. Pseudobranchiæ; air-bladder absent. Gill-openings narrow.
Southern temperate parts of the Atlantic and Pacific; Japan. Gonorhynchus Greyi. Australian coast.