FLATFISHES (HETEROSOMATA) 



4. KHOMBOSOLEA TAPIRINA, Giinther. 

 [Melbourne Flounder ; Southern Flounder : Greenback Flounder.] 



Rhombosolca tapirina (part), Cimthi-i, iSl.j, C.it. Fisli., iv. p, 45<i ; Maclcav, iNS^, Proc. I.imi. Soc. 



N.S.W., vi, p. 130. 

 Kbombusolea flesoidcs, GiinthtT, iStij. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ( j) .\i, p. 117; Waitc, moi., Kco. .•\ust. 



Mus., vi, p. 197, pi. XXXV ; Stead, lyoS, Edible Fish. N.S.W.. p. 104 ; MtCullocli, iqji, .\ust. 



Zool.,ii,p. 36, pL xiii ; Waite, 1923, Fishes S. Austral., p. 181. 

 PlcHronecifs ? victoricr, Castelnau, 1872, Proc. Zooi. Soc. Victoria, i, p. itiS. 

 Rhombosolca tapirina, Hutton, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) xii, p. 401 ; Hutton, 1874, Trans. 



I'roc. N.Z. Inst., vi. p. 106, pi. xix, fig. 83c ; Hutton, 1876, Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst., viii.p. 215 ; 



Boulenger, 1502, Rep. Coll. Nat. Hist. " Southern Cross ", v, p. 188 ; Waitc, 1000, Subantarclic 



Isl. N.Z., XXV, Vertebr.. p. 590 ; Waite, mil, Rec. Canterbury (N.Z.) Mus., i, p. 204, pl. xxxvi ; 



Phillipps. 1921, N.Z. J. Sci. Tech., iv, p. 122 ; Thomson and Anderton, 1021, Bull. N.Z. Hoard 



Sci. .\rt. ii, p. 87 ; Norman, 1926, Biol. Res. " Endeavour ", v, p. 2S4 ; Phillipps. 1927, N.Z. 



Mar. Dept., Fish. Bull., i, p. 29 ; McCulloch, 1929, Mem. Aust. Mus., v, p. 282 ; Whitley. 



1929, Pap. Roy. Soc. Tasni.. (1928), p. oO. 

 Rhombosolea Victoria:, Macleay, 1882, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.. vi.p. 132 ; Waite, 1921. Rec. S. Aust. 



Mus., ii, p. 158. 

 :^ Rhombosolca moiwpus. Woodward. 1902, W. .\ustral. \ear book, (kjoo-i). p. 272. 

 Rhombosolea monopus. Stead, 1906, Fish. .Vustral., p. i.Si. 



Depth of body 13 to 2 J in the length, length of head 3J to 33. Shape of body 

 more or less ovate ; upper profile of head straight or a little convex. Snout longer 

 than eye, produced into a fleshy process which projects freely in front of the mouth' ; 

 diameter of eye 4 f to 6 in length of head and 4 to 5 times the interorbital width. 

 Maxillar>' scarcely extending to below anterior edge of eye. length on ocular side 

 4 to 4J. on blind side 3? to 3I in that of head ; lower jaw 3 to 35 in head. 7 to 12 

 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch ; lower pharyngeals about 4 times as long 

 as broad, their inner edges angular, approximated for anterior 5 of their length ; teeth 



This process is not de\eloped 1 



iiple 



