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fc^ Bones of head soft, the sensory canals greatly 

 developed, the skull with high crests; form 

 very robust, the head massive, the snout broad 

 and high, the tail rapidly constricted from 

 trunk; gill-cavity restricted in size; margin of 

 preopercle adnate to interoperole ; barbel very 

 short; lateral line consisting of widely spaced 

 pores, without a well-marked superficial 

 groove; an accessory dorsal branch of lateral 

 line pores; scales enlarged and modified in a 

 series along base of dorsal ; spinules of scales 



erect ; dorsal spine serrate Cetonurus. 



D. Pectoral fin strikingly pedunculated ; first dorsal and ventral fins pro- 

 duced Ateleobrachinae. 



AteleoWachium. 



LIST OF THE KNOWN SPECIES OF MACROUROID FISHES. 

 The Japanese species here reported on are marked in the follow- 

 ing list by an asterisk (*). Other species examined by the writers 

 are marked with a dagger (f). Nominal species are excluded. 

 Family CORYPHAENOIDIDAE Collett. 

 Subfamily Macevroninae Regan. 

 Genus Steindachneria Goode and Bean (orgcntea). 



S. argentea Goode and Bean.t 

 Genus Macruronus Giintlier (novae-zealandiae) . 

 M. novae-zealandiae ( Hector ).t 

 M. magellanicus Lonnbei'g. 



Subfamily Bathygadinae .Tordan and Evermann. 

 Genus Bathygadus Giinther (coffoides). 

 B. cottoides Giinther. 

 B. melanohranchns Vaillant.t 

 B. favosns Goode and Bean.t 

 B. antrodes (Jordan and Gilbert).* 

 B. bowersi ( Gilbert).! 

 B. micronema ( Gilbert ).t 

 B. furvescens Alcock.t 

 B. macrops Goode and Bean.t 

 B. nipponicus (Jordan and Gilbert ).t 

 B. filamentosus (Smith and Radcliffe).t 

 B. sulcatiis (Smith and Radcliffe).t 

 B. garretti, new species.* 

 Genus Gadom-us Regan {longifllis) . 



G. longifllis (Goode and Bean).t 

 G. multifllis ( Giinther ).t 

 G. melanopterus Gilbert. t 

 G. arcuatus (Goode and Bean).t 

 G. dispar Va ill ant. 

 G. coUetti Jordan and Gilbert.* 

 Genus Trachyrhynchns Giorna (no typo nieiitionod). 

 T. trachyrJiynclius (Giorna). 

 T. longirostris (Gunther). 

 T. murrayi Gunther. 

 T. helolepis Gilbert, t 



