STDDIKS IN AUSTRALIAN I'1811ES — McCL'LLOCll. IMI 



MiKjil riinKCf^itif, Day, Fish India, 1876, j). ;US>, pi. Ixxiv., tig. 3. Id., 

 VVaite, Mem. N.S.Wales Nat. Club, No. 2, 1904, p. 22 (Perhaps nut 

 .V. cninu'siiit:, Cuvier & Valeucieunes). 



i'han(cfers. — A specimen in the Australian Museum, 156 mm. long to 

 the end of the middle caudal rays, from Bombay (Dr. Francis Day's 

 Collection), agrees well with that author's figure quoted above. It differs 

 from Miujil (jconjii in several striking characters; the first dorsal spine is 

 inserted nearer the end of the snout than the hyj)ural joint, the cheek- 

 scales are cycloid instead of ctenoid, each body-scale has a nienibi'anous 

 border, and the soft dorsal and anal fins are largely covered by scales. A 

 second specimen from the Philippine Islands exhibits the same characters. 



Australian Localities. — The only definite records of this species from 

 Australian waters are those of Steindachner and Klunzinger, who recorded 

 specimens from Cleveland Bay, Queensland. In lecording Steindachner's 

 reference, O'Shaughnessy, Zoological Record 1879, p. 14, unfortunately 

 gave the locality as Port Jackson, which caused Ogilby to include the 

 species in a List of Fishes of New South Wales. Waite later followed 

 Ogilby, but accepting the synonymy quoted by Day, changed the name 

 from louijimanas to cioniesiiis. Ogilby has since endeavoured to prove that 

 louyiiiiaiins is not certainly known from Australian Avaters, and that 

 Steindachner's and Kluuzinger's specimens are identical with M. iiortu)ti 

 (^=M. (jeonjii), but no valid reason is apparent to support this supposition. 



MuGiL, Liza, akgenteus, Quoi/ ^- (iaimanl. 



Flat-tailed Mullet. 



Midjil anjeutens, Quov & Gaiinard, Voy. Uranie, 1825, p. 338, pi. lix., 

 fig. 8. 



Magil peronii, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1886, p. 138. 



Mngil ferrandi, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Toiu. cit., p. 142 — substitute name 

 for M. argeiifeiis. 



S 1/ noil y III ij. — Giinther- included M. argentens in a section of the genus 

 Mngil which is characterised by the possession of a well-developed adipose 

 eyelid and only nine anal rays, whereas neither the original description 

 nor the figure of the species indicated any snch eyelid, and ten anal rays 

 were definitely described. Giinther's error has been followed by subsequent 

 authors, and a tropical fish very different to that taken in Port Jackson 

 by Quoy and Gaimard, has been associated with the name argentens. 

 Quoy and Gaimard's description and figure were apparently based upon a 

 young example of the common Flat-tailed Mullet, Mngil^ perouii, which 

 name must give place to the earlier argentens. 



Ogilby-^ has united Mngil crenidens, Kner^ with 3/. peronii, but this 

 is apparently incorrect. Kner described and figured nine anal rays instead 

 of ten as in M. peronii, and 43-44 scales instead of 35-38. Kner's species 

 is apparently synonymons with ^fl/.l•us elongatns, Giinther. 



- Giinther — Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861. p. 424. 



s Ogilby— Proc. Liun. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxii., 1897, ]). 79. 



* Kner— Novara Zool. i., 1865, p. 229, pi. ix., fig. 4. 



