The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Osteoglossidæ
Osteoglossidæ.
Body covered with large hard scales, composed of pieces like mosaic; head scaleless, its integuments nearly entirely rephced by bone; lateral line composed of wide openings of the mucusduct. Margin of the upper jaw formed by the intermaxillaries mesially, and by the maxillaries laterally. The dorsal fin belongs to the caudal portion of the vertebral column, is opposite and very similar to the anal fin; both approximate to the rounded caudal (with which they are abnormally confluent). Gill-openings wide; pseudobranchiæ none; air-bladder simple or cellular. Stomach without cæcal sac; pyloric appendages two.
Large fresh-water fishes of the tropics.
Osteoglossum Leichhardti. Queensland, Rivers Dawson and Burdekin. The true "Barramundi" (Masters).