BY "W. MACLEAY, F.L.8. 303 



South of Tasmania, and from the West Coast of New Holland 

 eastward as far as Norfolk Island. 



Kingdom ANIMALIA. Sub-Kingdom VERTEBRATA. 



Class FISHES. 



Vertebrate animals, with a double circulation and cold red blood, 

 inhaliting ivater, and breathing through gills. 



Sxjb-Class I. TELEOSTEI. 



Fishes having a bony skeleton. 



Order I. ACANTEOPTERYGII. 



Teleosteous fishes icith one or more of the rays of the dorsal, a^ial, 

 and ventral fins spiny and not articulated, and with the inferior 

 pharyngeal bones separated. 



Division I. ACANTH. PERCIFORMES. 



Body compressed, elevated or oblong, not elongate. No 

 prominent anal papilla : no superbranchial organ. Dorsal fin, 

 or fins occupying the greater portion of the back, spinous dorsal 

 generally with stiff spines ; the soft anal similar to the soft dorsal, 

 of moderate extent or rather short. Ventrals thoracic, always 

 present, with one spine at least and four or five rays. 



Family I. PEROIDiE. 



Body compressed or oblong ; one or two dorsal fins, the spinous 

 part always well developed. Soft dorsal and anal fins similar, 

 generally a lateral line, lower pectoral rays branched : vertical 

 fins not scaly. 



Q-roup Percina. 

 Genus Lates, Cuv. 

 Seven branchiostegals ; pseudobranchise. Teeth villiform, 

 without canines ; teeth on the palatine bones, tongue smooth. 

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