560 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Blmsh, with five to seven dark vertical bars. 

 Port Jackson. 



Genus Elacate, Cuv. 



Bod}" fusiform, covered witli very small scales ; liead depressed ; 

 cleft of mouth moderate ; no keel on the side of the tail ; the 

 spinous dorsal formed of free and small spines ; no finlets ; 

 ventrals thoracic. Yilliform teeth in the jaws and on the vomer and 

 palatines. Seven branchiostegals ; uo air-bladder ; pyloric 

 appendages dendritical. 



West Indies. Indian and Australian Seas. 



403. Elacate isIgra, B1. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes II., p. 375. 



The " King Fish " of the West Indies. 



D. 8/28-35. A. 25-27. Vert. 12/13. 



The height of the body is one-eighth of the total length ; caudal 

 fin obliquely truncated, with the u^Dper lobe longest. Back and 

 the upper half of the sides brownish or bluish-black, with a light 

 longitudinal band from above the orbit to the root of the caudal 

 fin. 



Port Jackson (Macl. Mus.) 



Genus Echeneis, Artedi. 



Body fusiform, with very small scales ; head depressed ; the 

 spinous dorsal modified into an adhesive disk ; no keel on the side 

 of the tail ; finlets none ; ventrals thoracic. Villiform teeth on 

 the jaws, vomer, and palatines, and generally on the tongue. 

 Seven branchiostegals ; no air-bladder ; pyloric appendages in 

 moderate number. 



All Seas. 



