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and ventrals elevated or prolonged. Caudal small. Pectoral short. 

 Ventral with spine and 5 rays, longer than pectoral. 

 One genus in the temperate waters of Australia. 



Genus ENOPLOSUS Lacepede 



Enoplosus LAcfipiiDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, p. 540, 1802. (Type, Enoplosus 



white IjXC&phi>E= Chaetodon armatus (Shaw) White, monotypic.) 

 Enoplosis DxjM^RiL, Zool. Analytic, p. 335 (134), 1806. (Type, Chaetodon armatua 



(Shaw) White.) 



Body depth more than half its length. Head compressed, with 

 upper profile very concave. Snout short, conic. Teeth vdlliform, 

 without canines, on jaws, on vomer, palatines and tongue. Inter- 

 orbital flat, with median groove. Opercle spineless. Preopercle 

 serrated, with spines or denticles at angle. Dorsal with 8 spines, 

 higher soft fin with 14 or 1 5 rays. Anal with 3 graduated spines and 

 14 or 15 rays. Pectoral rays 13 or 14. 



ENOPLOSUS ARMATUS (White) 



Chaetodon arrnatus (Shaw) White, Voy. New South Wales, p. 254, pi. 1, 1790 

 (type locality: New South Wales) [Botany Bay by Whitley, 1930]. — Shaw, 

 Natural. Miscellany, vol. 2, pi. 57, 1791 (New Holland). — Walbaum, 

 Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 444, 1792 (copied). — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 

 p. 227, 1801 (New Holland). 



Enoplosus armatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, p. 133, pi. 20, 1828 (New 

 Holland). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 81, 1859 (Sydney; 

 Australia). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 12, 1869 (Australia). — 

 Castblnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 47, 1872 (Mel- 

 bourne market) ; London luternat. Exhib. Cat., pp. 132, 133, 1872 (Victoria). — 

 Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeflfroy, No. 6, p. 11, 1877 (Sydney). — Macleat, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 309 1881 (east and south 

 coasts Australia). — Woods, Fish. Fisher. New South Wales, p. 32, pi. 2, 

 1883.— Ogilby, Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 6., 1893.— Waite, Prelim. 

 Rep. Thetis Exp., p. 23, 1898 (between Newcastle and Port Stephens, in 

 48 fathoms).— Stead, Fishes of Australia, pp. 96, 105, fig. 39, 1906 (New 

 South Wales, Victoria, Queensland). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1907, p. 433 (Sorrento, Victoria). — Stead, Edible fishes New 

 South Wales, p. 62, 1908. — Waite, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 3, pt. 3, 

 p. 143, 1915 (type of Enoplosus serotinus; Wide Bay, Queensland; 24 miles 

 south southeast of Eagles Nest, Victoria, in 45 fathoms). — Roughlet, 

 Fishes of Australia, p. 85, pi. 26, 1916 (New South Wales, Victoria, South 

 and West Australia, Queensland). — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., 

 vol. 2, No. 1, p. 116, fig. 178, 1921.— McCulloch, Fish. New South Wales, 

 ed. 2, p. 66, pi. 28, fig. 238 a, 1930. — Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., 

 vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 17, 1930 (nomenclature). 



Chaetodon constrictus Shaw, Zool. New Holland, 1793, pi. 6, p. 17, 1794 (type 

 locality: Botany Bay district. New South Wales). 



Enoplosus white LAc:6pi;DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, pp. 540, 541, 1802 (on 

 White, 1790). 



Enoplosus serotinus de Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 10, p. 28, 1911 (type lo- 

 cality : Cairns [wrong according to Waite, as not known north of Wide Bay]) . 



Depth 1% to 2; head 2% to 3, width 2% to 2%. Snout 3% to 4K in 

 head from snout tip; eye 3% to 4, greater than snout in young to 



