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TEPHRAEOPS TEPHRAEOPS (Richardson) 



Crenidens tephraeops Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., p. 69, pi. 41, 

 figs. 1-2, 1844-1848 (type locality: King Georges Sound). 



Tephraeops richardsonii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 432, 1859 

 (type locality: King Georges Sound). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New- 

 South Wales, vol. 5, p. 410, 1881 (copied). 



Depth 2%; head S%. Snout 2% in head; eye 4%, 2% in snout; 

 maxillary reaches opposite eye, length 2% in head; jaws equal; teeth 

 tridentate in outer row and broad band of finer inner ones; inter- 

 orbital low; preopercle edge denticulate. 



Scales about 116 in lateral line. Cheek with small irregular scales 

 to preopercle ridge, flange apparently naked or only with few scattered 

 scales; small patch of scales on upper part of opercle, rest naked. 



D. XIV, 13, fourth spine 2% in head, fifth ray 1%; A. Ill, 11, third 

 spine 2%, second spine Iji; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 

 1; ventral Iji; caudal 3 in rest of body, emarginate behind. 



Black, deeper on back and fins, more dilute toward belly. Very 

 dark speck behind last dorsal spine tip. Eye gray. Length, 296 

 mm. (Richardson.) 



West Australia. 



Genus MELAMBAPHES Gunther 



Melambaphes Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 11, p. 115, 1863. 



[Type, Glyphisodon nigroris (not Cuvier) Gvntiie'R'= Melambaphes guen- 



theri Gill, monotypic] 

 Girellichthys Kltjnzinger, Arch. Naturg., vol. 38, pt. 1, p. 22, before July, 1872. 



(Type, Crenidens zebra Richardson, monotypic.) 

 Neotephroeops Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, pp. 68, 248, 



July 15, 1872. (Type, Crenidens zebra Richardson, monotyi^ic.) 

 Neotephraeops Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 410, 1881. 



(Type, Crenidens zebra Richardson, monotypic.) 



Series of trenchant, tricuspid teeth in each jaw and broad band of 

 villiform teeth close behind. Palate toothless. Preopercle crenulated. 

 Scales 100 in lateral line. Body covered with small ctenoid scales. 

 Cheeks, opercles and soft parts of vertical fins with very small scales. 

 Dorsal spines 13 or 14, rays 12. Anal spines 3, rays 11. 



Australia. 



MELAMBAPHES ZEBRA (Richardson) 



Crenidens zebra Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., p. 70, 1844-1848 

 [no locality (King Georges Sound)]. — Castelnau, Rec. London Internat. 

 Exhib., pt. 7, No. 5, p. 10, 1873 (Victoria). 



Tephraeops zebra Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 432, 1859 (com- 

 piled). — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 114, fig. 175, 

 1921. 



Girella zebra Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 

 53, pt. 1, p. 430, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1866 (Port Jackson and Hobsons Bay). 



Girella (Girellichthys) zebra Klunzinger, Arch. Naturg., vol. 38, pt. 1, p. 22, 

 1872 (Murray River). 



Neotephroeops zebra Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 69, 

 1872. 



