English: Title: The Australian zoologist

Identifier: australianzoolog91937roya Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Proceedings Subjects: Zoology; Zoology; Zoology Publisher: [Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales] Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: 397 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME AUSTRALIAN FISHES. By G. P. Whitley/ (Plates xxx.-xxxi. and text-figures.) The crudest diagram of a fish reveals more of its character than the average description and facilitates identification of species. Thus the well- illustrated papers of Waite and McCulloch on Australian fishes were a tremendous advance on the pictureless pages of many of their predecessors. Though some hundreds of specimens have been well figured, many species still remain known only from old and often brief descriptions. I therefore propose to illustrate type specimens or authentic material of some of these less known species, and the drawings and photographs so collected will be embodied in my contemplated "Fishes of Australia" at a later date. In some cases, when suitable Australian specimens were not available, I have figured the species from adjacent waters. I have not repeated such re- ferences to literature as will be found in McCulloch's "Check-List" (Australian Museum Memoir, v., 1929). Many worthless nomina nuda and substitute names of no validity are formally made synonyms of known species in this paper in order to purge the Australian list of numerous superfluous entries, and a few new names are propounded. Family Elopsidae. Genus Elops Linne, 1766. Gularus, subg. nov. Orthotype, Elops australis Regan, 1909. The Australian species differs from the American genotype (E. saurus L.) sufficiently to be regarded as a new subgenus characterized as follows: — Lower jaw included, the premaxillary teeth being exposed when mouth is closed. Twelve to 15 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior gill-arch. About 31 branchiostegal rays. Less than 100 scales in a longitudinal series. Less than 70 vertebrae. Elops hawaiensis Regan, 1909, also enters this new subgenus.

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 1. Giant Herring, Elops (Gularus) australis. Topotype. G: Gular plate. *By permission of the Trustees of the Australian Museum.

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