COAST FISHES 



PART I. THE SOUTH ATLANTIC^ 



(INCLUDING THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS, WEST AFRICA, SOUTH AFRICA, 

 ASCENSION ISLAND, TRISTAN DA CUNHA AND GOUGH ISLAND) 



By J. R. Norman 



Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) 



(Text-figs. I -1 5.) 

 INTRODUCTION 



THE collection of coast fishes^ obtained by the R.R.S. 'Discovery' and the R.R.S. 

 ' William Scoresby ' is so large that it has proved necessary to divide the report on 

 these fishes into three sections, of vv^hich the present one is the first. The second part 



^ A certain number of fishes were also obtained by the expedition in New Zealand. Of these, some were 

 collected by the R.R.S. 'Discovery II'; others were presented by the N.Z. Fisheries, Ltd., WelHngton, 

 and were selected from specimens in the fish market ; and a small series of freshwater fishes was obtained 

 through the courtesy of the New Zealand Marine Department. These New Zealand fishes will form a very 

 valuable addition to the collections of the British Museum, but it has not seemed necessary to deal with them 

 in detail here. A list of the species represented is given below, and references to nearly all these are to be 

 found in the check-list of New Zealand fishes published by Phillipps in 1927 {N.Z. Marine Dept., Fisheries 

 Bull., No. i). 



Trachiinis novae- zelandiae, Richardson 

 Dactylopagrus macropterus (Schn.) 

 Parapercis colias (Schn.) 

 Hemerocoetes pauciradiatus, Regan 

 Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen) 

 Gobiomorphiis gobioides (Cuv. and Val.) 

 Favonigobius lateralis (Macleay) 

 Tripterygion variiim (Schn.) 

 Helcogramma tnedium (Giinth.) 

 Genypterus hlacodes (Schn.) 

 Agonostomus forsteri (Schn.) 

 Seriolella brama (Giinth.) 

 Pterygotrigla picta (Giinth.) 

 Chelidonichthys kumu (Lesson and Garnot) 

 Lepidotrigla brachyoptera, Hutton 

 Lopho?iectes gallus, Giinth. 

 Pelotretis flavilatus, Waite 

 Peltorhamphus novae-zeelandiae , Giinth. 

 Rhombosolea retiaria, Hutton 

 Rhombosolea leporina, Giinth. 

 Meuschenia convexirostris (Giinth.) 

 ^ The term "coast fishes" was suggested by Regan (1914, Rep. Brit. Antarct. {'Terra Nova') Exped., 

 1910, Zool., I, p. 24) to include not only the littoral forms but also fishes that may occur at no great distance 

 from the coasts in water down to two or three hundred fathoms deep, and are not pelagic or bathypelagic. 

 The true oceanic fishes have been dealt with in a previous report (Norman, 1930, Discovery Reports, 11, 

 pp. 261-370, pi. ii, 47 text-figs.). 



Geotria australis, Gray 

 Eptatretus cirr/iatus (Schn.) 

 Mustelus manazo, Bleek. ? 

 Raja nasiita, Miill. and Henle 

 Trygon brevicaudata, Hutton 

 Argentina elongata, Hutton 

 Retropinna retropinna (Richardson) 

 Galaxias fasciatiis, Gray 

 Galaxias attenuatus (Jenyns) 

 Prototroctes oxyrhynchus, Giinth. 

 Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus (Linn.) 

 Chlorophthalmiis nigripinnis, Giinth. 

 Conger conger (Linn.) 

 Ariosoma habenata (Richardson) 

 Macrtironus novae-zelandiae (Hector) 

 Physiciiliis bachus (Schn.) 

 Hoplopteryx affinis (Giinth.) 

 Zeus faber, Linn. 

 Poly prion oxygeneios (Schn.) 

 Caesioperca lepidoptera (Schn.) 

 Usacaranx lutescens (Richardson) 



