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used for food. Mullet enter sandy bays, creeks and estuaries in numbers, and are said 

 to be caught by men entering the water and driving them ashore. Mr Bennett notes 

 that it is a fish of rapid movement, fond of basking in quiet bays during sunshine, and 

 becoming most active in the last few hours of the rising tide. As the tide rises the 

 fish run into very shallow water, even up the freshwater streams, and are often isolated 

 there until the next high tide. 



Fig. 45. Eleginops maclovinus. x J. 



Genus Harpagifer, Richardson 



Harpagifer, Richardson, 1844, Zool. 'Erebus' and 'Terror', Fishes, p. 11; Regan, 1913, Trans. 

 R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 280. Type Batrachus bispinis, Schneider. 



This genus differs from Notothenia in the naked body, the broad union of the gill- 

 membranes to the isthmus, the hooked operculum, and the development of the 

 operculum and suboperculum as strong spines. 



Harpagifer bispinis (Schneider). 



Batrachus bispinis, Schneider [ex Forster MS.], 1801, in Bloch, Syst. Ichth., p. 45. 



Callionymus bispinis, Forster, 1844, Anim. Alar. Aust., p. 360. 



Harpagifer bispinis, Richardson, 1844, Zool. 'Erebus' and 'Terror', Fishes, pp. 11, 19, pi. vii, 

 figs. 1-3, pi. xii, figs. 8, 9; Giinther, i860, Cat. Fish., 11, p. 263; Cunningham, 1871, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. London, xxvn, p. 470; Vaillant, 1888, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Zool., Poiss., 

 p. 23; Perugia, 1891, Ann. Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) x [xxx], p. 620; Smitt, 1898, 

 Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Hand!., xxiv, iv, No. 5, p. 17; Steindachner, 1898, Zool. Jahrb., 

 Suppl. iv, p. 306; Delfin, 1901, Cat. Peces Chile, p. 87; Lonnberg, 1905, Wiss. Ergebn. 

 Schwed. Siidpol.-Exped., v (6), p. 8; Lonnberg, 1907, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr., Fische, 

 p. 11; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 280; Hussakof, 1914, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., xxxin, p. 90. 



Harpagifer palliolatus, Richardson, 1844, t.c, p. 20, pi. xii, figs. 5-7. 



St. WS 89. 7. iv. 27. 9 miles N 21 E of Arenas Point Light, Tierra del Fuego. Commercial 

 otter trawl, 23-21 m.: 2 specimens, 55, 67 mm. 



St. WS 749. 18. ix. 31. 52 39' 30" S, 69 53' 30" W. Rectangular net, 40 m.: 3 specimens, 

 45-48 mm. 



Dorsal III-V 21-26. Anal 16-21. Coloration very variable, the body generally with 

 dark bars or blotches. 



Hab. Patagonia; Falkland Islands; Straits of Magellan; Graham Land; South 

 Georgia ; South Orkneys ; Marion Islands ; Kerguelen ; Macquarie Island. 



