14 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



crowded large ones, directed outwards ; gill membranes broadly- 

 connected beneath ; scales small, none on the head ; lateral line 

 straight. The first dorsal fin commences above the pra^operculuin, 

 is less than half the he'ght of the body, and is joined to the 

 second by a very low membrane ; the second dorsal is slightly 

 higher than the first ; the caudal is rather long, narrow, and 

 truncate ; the anal consists of thick isolated rays, the membranes 

 not, or scarcely joining them ; the pectorals long, reaching to the 

 fifth anal ray, with the six lower rays simple ; ventrals two-rayed, 

 fleshy, joined at the base. Colour in spirits, yellowish, with a 

 number of rather faint reddish-brown spots and double vertical 

 fascia) along the body ; fins of a more dusky yellow, with a brown 

 spot at the extremity of the first dorsal spine, and another on the 

 membrane between the third and fourth ; anal margined with 

 blackish. 



Port Jackson (Macl. Mus.) 



Genus Cllxus, Cuv. 



Body moderately elongate, covered with small scales ; snout 

 rather short ; a narrow band or sometimes a single series of small 

 teeth in the jaws and on the palate. Dorsal fin long, formed by 

 many spines and a few rays, without a detached anterior portion ; 

 anal spines two ; ventrals jugular, composed of a small spine 

 hidden in the skin, and two or three rays. Tentacle above the 

 orbit more or less developed. Gill-opening wide ; pscudobranchia) ; 

 six branchiostegals ; air-bladder and pyloric appendages absent. 



Seas of temperate regions. 



572. Clixus desficillatus, Richards. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes III., p. 271. 



D. 3/35/4. A. 2/25. V. 1/3. 



Height of body five times and two-thirds in the total length, 

 the length of the head four times and a-half. Snout rather 



