Identifier: zoologicalresult12ende (find matches)
Title: Zoological results of the fishing experiments carried on by F.I.S. "Endeavour," 1909-14 under H.C. Dannevig, commonwealth director of fisheries. Volume 1-5
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Endeavour (Ship) Dannevig, H. C Australia. Dept. of Trade and Customs Australia. Director of Fisheries
Subjects: Zoology Natural history Fishes Fishes
Publisher: Sydney
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ms. Flinders Island, Investigator Group, South Australia, 37fathoms. Ammotretis macrolepis, .y, nov. (Fig. 9.) D. 90; A. 59; P. 8-10; V. dex. 12; V. sin. 5. Depthl^r, head 41 in the length from the upper jaw to the hypural.Eye twice as long as its distance from the tip of the upper jaw,and 3; in the length between that point and the end of theoperculum. Upper pectoral longer than the lower, If in the head.Caudal longer than the head. Longest dorsal and anal rays aslong as the pectoral. All the scales are ctenoid but those of the upper side are morestrongly toothed than the lower ones. They extend over thegreater part of all the rays except those of the pectoral and theanterior dorsal and ventral ones. Lateral line almost straight,its origin on the same level as the upper margin of the upper eye.There are about sixty-six pores and as many scales along itslength to the hypural, and twenty-four above and thirty belowit across the widest part of the body. 126 ENDEAVOUR SCIENTIFIC RESULTS.
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Pig, 9. Amfooiretis macrnlepis. FISHES. MCCULLOCH. 127 Upper eye slightly in advance of the lower. Maxillary ex-tending backwards to behind the orbital margin ; lower lip witha few small tubercles. Nostrils tubular, the anterior ofboth sides with posterior lobes. Teeth in a band on the lowerside of each jaw. Gill-rakers of the first arch reduced to minutetubercles. Dorsal commencing on the tip of the rostral hook, the anteriorrays free and simple. Left pectoral shorter than the right, thethe first ray very short, with a small fleshy tubercle at its tip.Right ventral in a line with and joined to the anal, its anteriorrays somewhat like those of the dorsal. Middle caudal rays thelongest, the margin obtusely pointed. Colour.—Pinkish, with numerous small dark grey ocelli on thehead and body. Fins dotted with dark grey. Described from a single specimen 98 mm. long. A. macrolepis is most nearly allied to A. tudori, and it is withhesitation that I venture to separate it from that species.

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