FAMILY TRICHONOTIDAE — SCHXJLTZ 275 



equal, snout not fleshy; dorsal rays 35; anal 42; pectoral 15. 



(New Zealand.) Tewara ™ Grifiin 



8b. Scales about 35 to 40, large; dorsal fin origin about midway 

 between snout tip and caudal fin base, and about one 

 head length behind rear of head; lateral line along midside 

 anteriorly gradually sloping closer to a more ventral posi- 

 tion near rear of anal fin base; snout fleshy, projecting 

 beyond lower jaw; dorsal rays 21 to 26; anal 23 to 29; 

 pectoral 11 to 13; branched caudal 5+4. (Indo-Pacific.) 



Limnichthys Waite 

 4b. Origin of anal fin behind dorsal fin origin. 



9a. Dorsal rays IV,20, first rays pungent spines; anal 15; pectoral 15; 

 branched caudal 6 + 5 (fresh-water streams of New Zealand). 



Cheimarrichthys " Haast 

 96. Dorsal fin without pungent spines. 



lOo. Inner edge of preopercle with cirri opposite the gill rakers on first 



gill arch; dorsal rays about 40 to 42; anal about 39 to 41; 



pectoral about 18 to 20; branched caudal fin rays 4 + 4; scales 



about 48 to 52; jaws nearly equal. (New Zealand; Indo-Pacific.) 



Hemerocoetes *" Cuvier and Valenciennes 



106. No cirri on inner edge of the preopercle. 



llo. Lips with cirri; snout fleshy, projecting; lateral line along midside 

 anteriorly but ventral in position near caudal peduncle; 

 pelvic rays 1,4; anal origin nearly under that of dorsal; 

 dorsal rays 34 to 37; anal 35 to 38; pectoral 11 or 12; branched 

 caudal 4 + 3 or 4; scales 54 to 57. (Indo-Pacific.) 



Chalixodytes Schultz 

 116. Lips without cirri; pelvic rays 1,5. 



12a. Snout fleshy, projecting; dorsal rays about 34 to 43; anal 35 to 

 39, branched caudal 4 + 4; anal origin under about base 

 of fourth soft dorsal ray; scales 54 to 60. (Indo-Pacific.) 



Crystallodytes ^' Fowler 

 126. Snout not fleshy and projecting. 

 13a. Jaws equal or upper slightly longest; dorsal rays about 28; 

 anal 23; scales 30, with 3 above and 4 below lateral 



line. (Australia.) Squamicreedia ^^ Rendahl 



136. Lower jaw longer than upper; branched caudal rays 6+5; 

 pectoral 12 to 14; anal 1,35 to 42; scales 50 to 60, with 

 4 or 5 above and 5 or 6 below lateral line; gill rakers 



" Tewara Griffin, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 6-3, p. 174, pi. 25, upper fig., 1933 (type species, Tewara 

 cranuelli Oriffln; from Cable Bay). 



" Cheimamchthys Haast, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 6, p. 103, pi. 18, 1874 (type species, Cheimar- 

 rtrhthys foTsteri Haast).— McCuUoch and Phillipps, Rec. Australian Museum, vol. 14, No. 1. p. 19, pi. 4. 

 fig. 2, 1923 (New Zealand). 



'o Hemcfocoeies Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 12, p. 311, 1837 (type species, 

 Hemerocoetes acantkorhynchos Cuvier and ya.\c>ncKnnes=Callionymus acanthorhynchos Forster=C. monnp- 

 terygius Bloeh and Schneider).— Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, No. 3. p. 24,'), pi. 54, fig. 1, 1911 (de- 

 scription and figure of type species). 



The following species belong in this genus: Hemerocoetes microps W^aite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, 

 No. 3, p. 245, pi. 54, fig. 2, 1911 (type locality, southwest coa?t of New Zealand). Hemerocoetes waitet Regan 

 in British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, Zoology, vol. 1, No. 1, p. 18, 1914 (type locality, New Zealand). 



91 Crystallodytet Fowler, Oco. Pap. Bishop Mus. vol. 8, No. 7, p. 390. 1923 (typo species, Crystallodylef 

 cookei Fowler). 



«2 Squamicreedia Rendahl, Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 61, No. 9, p. 20, figs. 4, 5. 6, 1921 (type species, 

 Squamicreedia obtusa Rendahl). 



