io8 FISHES OF AUSTRALIA. 



CHAPTER VI. 



The Pseudochromids The Band-Fishes The Knife-jawed Fishes-- 

 The Whiting Family The Jewfish Family The Silverbellies The 

 Trumpeters The Morwong Family Grunters and Boar-Fishes The 

 Bream FamilyRed Mullets or Goat-Fishes. 



THE PSEUDOCHROMIDS 



(Family : Pseudochromididce.} 



THIS family contains fishes which are closely allied to the 

 Serranid Perches. They are all marine fishes and are mostlv 

 of small size, inhabiting the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific 

 Oceans. One of the largest and best-known members of 

 this family is the American "Tile-Fish" which lives upon 

 the bottom of what is called the Gulf-stream Slope, off the 

 coast of New England (U.S.A.), where it was first observed 

 in 1879. It attains a weight of over 40 pounds. 



The Pseudochromid fishes are very poorly represented 

 in Australian waters ; one species, called the Leopard-Fish 

 ( Gnathypops jacksoniensis} is found on the New South 

 Wales coastline. 



THE BAND-FISHES. 



(Family: Cepolida:.} 



E is only one species of these curious ribbon-like fishes 

 known from Australia, and that is the Australian Band- 

 Fish (Ccpola anstralis}. This was only discovered quite 

 recently, being described by Ogilby in 1899 in the "Pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales." The 

 specimen upon which the description was founded was from 

 Port Jackson and is in the possession of the Department of 



