2 DESCKirTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN - FISHES, 



Genus Trictioxotus, Bl. 



Head depressed, pointed, trunk subcylindrical, tail compressed; 

 cleft of the mouth wide, nearly horizontal, with the lower jaw 

 longest ; eyes of moderate size, cycloid ; lateral line continuous. 

 One dorsal fin; ventrals jugular Avith one spine and five rays. 

 Gill-opening very wide, with the gill-membranes scarcely united 

 below the throat ; seven branchiostegals. Villiform teeth in the 

 jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Air-bladder and 

 pyloric appendages none. 



Coasts of Netherlands India, and North Australia. 



544. Trictioxotus Blociiii, Casteln. 

 Researches on the Fishes of Australia, p. 21-22. 

 D. 46. A. 36. L. lat. 53. 

 Height of body over thirteen times in the length without the 

 caudal fin ; head five times and a-half . The lower jaw is long and 

 swelled at the extremity receiving within it the upper. The first 

 seven or eight rays of the dorsal fin elongate. Colour orange-yellow 

 without spots ; fins yellow. Length six inches. 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. Port Darwin. 



The species which I believed to be T. setigerus, Bl., in my 

 paper on the Fishes of Port Darwin (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. "W., 

 Yol. II., p. 359) is no doubt this species. 



Family XXIX. BLENNIIDJE. 

 Body elongate, low, more or less cylindrical, naked, or covered 

 with scales which are generally small. One, two, or three dorsal 

 fins, occupying nearly the whole of the back — the spinous portion 

 if distinct, being as much developed as the soft, or more, some- 

 times entirely composed of spines ; anal fm long ; ventrals 

 jugular composed of a few rays, sometimes rudimentary or 

 absent. Pseudobranchia). 



Genus Blexxius, Artedi. 

 Body moderately elongate, naked ; snout short. A single 

 dorsal fm without detached portion ; ventrals jugular formed by 



