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Gill openings narrow. Spiracle rather large, behind eye. Scales 

 uniform, rough. Two dorsals with deeply imbedded spines and an- 

 terior spine rising obliquely forward. No anal. 



OXYNOTUS BRUNIENSIS (Ogilby) 



Centrina Iruniensis (Morton) Ogilby, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 62, 1893 

 (tj'pe locality: Brunny Island, Tasmania). — ^Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 42, 1908 (note). 



Oxynotus hrwniensis Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 8, 1907 

 (reference). — McCulloch, Zool. Res. Endeavour, vol. 2, p. 80, pi. 13, 

 1909-1910 (East Bass Strait and Great Australian Bight, in 80-220 fath- 

 oms).— Gakman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 191, 1913 (Tasmania).— 

 Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 24, fig. 32, 1921.— McCmJ.ocH, 

 Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 5, pt. 4, p. 157, 1926 (off Gabo Island, 

 Victoria). — Phiixipps, New Zealand Journ. Sci. Techn., vol. 10, p. 222, 

 fig. 2, 1928 (New Zealand).— Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr. 

 Java, p. 495, 1930 (reference). — Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, 

 pt. 4, p. 199, 1934 (reference). 



Centrina salviana (not Risso) Hutton, Trans, New Zealand Inst., vol. 22, p. 276, 

 1890. 



Depth 314 to subcaudal origin; head 4%. Snout 2% in head; 

 orbit 41/105 1% in snout; mouth small, transverse, lateral grooves 

 broad and deep; upper jaws with patch of small, conic, curved 

 teeth of about 4 irregular series; lower teeth uniserial, larger than 

 upper, erect, compressed, minutely serrated, scalpriform; nostril 

 about first % in snout; preoral length 21/10; interorbital moderately 

 high. Gill openings small, about y^ of orbit, equidistant, before 

 pectoral. Spiracle about equals gill openings, above and distant 

 from hind eye edge about its own diameter. 



Scales rough, with central spine giving 4 compressed radiating 

 wings, each ending in shorter spme. 



First dorsal origin over third gill opening, fin height from hind 

 basal edge equals head, base length little greater than head to last 

 gill opening; interdorsal space 1% in head to first gill opening; front 

 edge of second dorsal 1 ; caudal 21/2 in rest of body, front subcaudal 

 edge !■% in caudal length; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% in 

 head; pectoral li/io, width 2 in its length which not quite reaching 

 opposite hind basal edge of first dorsal ; ventral origin opposite last 

 third in second dorsal base, fin length 1% in head. 



Uniform sandy brown. Length, 600 mm. (Garman; McCulloch.) 



Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia. 



Family DALATIIDAE 



Body partly fusiform, cavity more than half total length. Snout 

 subconic. Eyes without nictitating membranes. Mouth transverse, 

 little arched, with long deep straight oblique groove each side. 



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