The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Trachinidæ
Trachinidæ.
Body elongate, low, naked, or covered with scales. Teeth in villiform bands, with pointed and conical canines in some of the genera; no molars or trenchant teeth. The infraorbital ring does not articulate with the præoperculum. One or two dorsal fins, the spinous portion being always much less developed and shorter than the soft; the anal similarly developed as the soft dorsal; ventrals with one spine and five rays.† Gill-opening more or less wide; five, six, or seven branchiostegals; pseudobranchiæ. No prominent papilla near the anus. Air-bladder generally absent; pyloric appendages in moderate number, or wanting.
page 71Carnivorous fishes, living at the bottom of the shores of nearly all the seas.
Anema monopterygium. New Zealand coast.
Kathetostoma læve. Port Arthur.
Leptoscopus macropygus. Port Jackson.
Percis nebulosa. West coast.
——nycthemera. New Zealand coast.
——colias. Ditto.
Aphritis Urvilli. Tasmanian and South Australian Rivers.
Sillago maculata. Port Jackson. "Whiting."
——punctata. South coast.
——ciliata. Cape York. "Koopooroa."—Native name.
Notothenia cornucola. New Zealand coast.
† In Epicopus with one spine and six rays.