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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Siluridæ

Siluridæ.

Skin naked or with osseous scutes, but without scales. Barbels always present; maxillary bone rudimentary, almost always forming the base of a maxillary barbel. Margin of the upper jaw formed by the intermaxillaries only. Suboperculum absent. Air-bladder generally present, communicating with the organ of hearing by means of the auditory ossicles. Adipose fin present or absent.

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Inhabitants of the fresh waters of all the temperate and tropical regions, some entering the salt water, but keeping near the coast.

Plotosus anguillaris. Moreton Bay. "Cat-fish."

Neosilurus hyrtlii. Queensland Rivers.

Copidoglanis tandanus. Port Jackson.

——obscuras. Port Jackson.

——brevidorsalis. North-west coast.

Cnidoglanis megastoma. Port Jackson.

——lepturus. Port Jackson.

——microcephalus. North-west coast.

Arius australis. Clarence River.

Arius venaticus. North-west coast.

Arius vertagus. North-west coast.