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Subgenus Scleropages Gunther 



Scales 34 to 39 in lateral line, 3 to 5 above. Pectoral 3^ to 414 in 

 combined head and body to caudal base. 



SCLEROPAGES LEICHARDTI Gunther 



Scleropages leichardti Gunthek, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 14, p. 196, 

 pi. 7, 1864 (type locality: Burdekin Rilver and Princhester, 90 miles from 

 Rockhampton, Queensland). — Kent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 8, 

 pt. 2, p. 108, 1892 (eastern coastline of Queensland). — Webek, Notes Leyden 

 Mus., vol. 32, p. 226, pi. 3, 1910 (Digul River, Dutch New Guinea) ; Nova 

 Guinea, vol. 9, p. 516, 1913 (copied). — Webek and Beaufort, Fishes Indo- 

 Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 14, 1913 (copied). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 10, p. 33, 1928 (compiled). — McCuxxocH, Austral. Mus. Mem., 

 vol. 5, p. 36, 1929 (Queensland). 



Scleropages leichardtii Banceoft, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 28, p. 93, 

 1916 (Dawson River). 



Scleropages leichhardti McCtjlloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, 

 pt. 2, p. 131, 1925 (reference). 



Osteoglossnm leichardti GDnthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 378, 1868 

 (type). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 256, 1881 

 (Queensland Rivers). — Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 299, 1893 (Fitzroy, 

 Dawson, and other intertropical Queensland rivers). 



Osteoglossum jardinii Kent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 8, No. 3, p. 105, 

 1892 (type locality: Batavia and Gregory Rivers, Cape York, Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, Queensland). 



Osteoglossum jardinci Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 3(X), 1893 (Batavia, Nor- 

 man and Gregory Rivei'S). 



Scleropages jardinii Bancroft, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 28, p. 95, 1916 

 (Gregory River). 



Scleropages jardinei McCuixoch and Whitlky, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, 

 pt. 2, p. 131, 1925 (reference). 



Depth 3% ; head 314. Snout 7% in head from snout tip ; eye 7^4, 

 subequal with snout; maxillary reaches well beyond eye, length 1% 

 in head from upper jaw tip; lower jaw protudes, with pair of very 

 small barbels near symphysis; series of small, close-set, conic teeth 

 in each jaw and band of coarse cardiform teeth runs round palate; 

 interorbital 3% in head ; broad suborbitals finely striate like opercle. 



Scales 33 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 4 

 above, 5 below, about 28 predorsal. Scales very large, higher than 

 long, minutely granulated; finely reticulate around larger median 

 mesh. 



D. 20, inserted slightly before middle of anal base, ninth ray 3 in 

 total head length; A. 31, base nearly long as head, third ray 3%; 

 caudal 21^5 convex behind ; ventral 3I/2 ; pectoral I14, not quite reach- 

 ing ventral, 4% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Entire body finely dotted with brown. Vertical fins and opercular 

 membrane with small whitish spots. Length 712 mm. (Giinther.) 



Queensland. 



