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Atractoscion aequidens Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 575, 



1927 (Table Bay, False Bay, Agulhas Bank to Algoa Bay, Natal, in 30 



fathoms) . 

 Otolithus atelodus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 60, 1867 



(type locality: Australia). — Woods, Fish, Fisher. New South Wales, p. 54, 



pi. 17, 1882.— Ogilby, Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 75, pi. 23, 1893.— 



Waite, Sea Fisher. Rep. Thetis, p. 28, 1898 (off Broken Head, New South 



Wales, 16 to 48 fathoms). 

 Cynoscion atelodus Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 113, 1906 (New South Wales); 



Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 67, pi. 38, 1908.— Rouqhley, Fishes of 



Australia, p. 115, 1916 (New South Wales). 

 Atractoscion atelodus Ogilby, Handb. Sj'dney, p. 130, 1898; Mem. Queensland 



Mus., vol. 6, p. 67, 1918 (Sydney). — McCulloch, Fishes New South Wales, 



ed. 2, p. 58, pi. 24, fig. 212a, 1927. 

 Zeluco atelodus Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 6, pt. 4, p. 317, 1931 (reference). 

 Otolithus teraglin Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 48, 1881 



(type locality: Sydney market). 



Depth 4 to 4K; head 3% to 3%. Eye 5 to 7 in head, 1^ to 2 in snout, 

 lYz to IK in interorbital ; maxillary reaches below hind eye edge; 

 preopercle edge with some wide spaced short spines in young, dis- 

 appearing with age. Lower gill rakers 8 or 9 on first arch, as short 

 knobs with age. 



Scales ctenoid, often feebly so, 75 to 80 in lateral line; 14 to 17 

 above, 25 to 29 below. Tubes in lateral line arborescent on front 

 part of body with age, trifurcate on hind part. 



D. X, 27 to 31, first spine short, third or third and fourth longest; 

 A. II, 9, spines weak. 



Silvery, bluish above, belly white. Edges of both jaws and opercle 

 bright yellow. Fins grayish, anals and ventrals white. Black 

 axillary spot. Reaches 1,000 mm. (Barnard.) 



A valued food fish. I follow Barnard in his contention that South 

 African and Australian forms are the same species. 



Genus PSEUDOSCIAENA Sleeker 



Pseudosciaena Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 142, 1863* 

 (Type, Pseudosciaena amblyceps Bleeker, designated by Jordan, Genera 

 of fishes, pt. 3, p. 321, 1919.) 



Othonias Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, pp. 244, 246, 

 1911. (Tj^pe, Sciaena manchurica Jordan and Thompson, orthotypic.) 



Head obtuse, convex, with muciferous cavities. Mouth large, 

 oblique. Opercle mth simple point. Gill rakers 18 on lower branch 

 of first arch. Soft dorsal, anal, and caudal densely covered with small 

 scales. Silvery dermal glandular organ on ventral surface, one below 

 each scale. Dorsal spines 10, rays 27 to 33. Anal spines 2, rays 7 to 9. 



I do not accept the two designations of the alleged genotype by 

 Bleeker, as neither is contained in the original account of the genus. ^^ 



12 Bleeker, Verb. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam (Rev. Sciaen.), vol. 14, p. 18, 1874. (Type, Otolithus 

 macrophthalmus Bleeker, orthotypic.) Arch. N^erland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 11, p. 329, 1876. (Type, 

 Sciaena aquila Risso, orthotypic.) 



