Vol. XXVIII. 

 1911 



J Kershaw. Additions to the Fish Fauna of Victoria. 93 



ADDITIONS TO THE FISH FAUNA OF VICTORIA. 



No. III. 

 By J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., Curator Zoological Department, 



National Museum, Melbourne. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, \^th Augi, 191 1.) 

 The following species in the collection of the National Museum, 

 although already known from other parts of the Australian 

 coast, have not previously been recorded from Victorian 

 waters : — 



Family HISTIOPTERID.F:. 

 Zanclistius elevatus, Ramsay and Ogilby. 



Histiopteriis elevatus. Rams, and Ogil., Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W. (2), iii., 1888, p. 1,311 ; Waite, Mem. Aust. 

 Mus., iv. (1899), p. 114, pi. xxvi. 

 Zanclistius elevatus, Jordon, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxxii. 

 (1907), p. 236 ; Waite, Rec. Canterb. Mus., i. (1911), 

 p. 216. 



Long-finned Boar Fish. 

 D. VL26, A. III. 15, V. 1.5, P. 16, C. 17. L. lat. 70, L. tr. |f. 

 Length of head, 3 ; height of body, 1.3 in length (without 

 caudal) ; length of snout, 2.1 ; interorbital space, 3.2 ; diameter 

 of eye, 3.1 in length of head. The third dorsal ray is the 

 longest, being i^ in the length of the head and body, and 

 slightly less than the height of the body. The first anal spine 

 is short, rather less than the first dorsal ; the second is the 

 longest, about equal to the third dorsal spine, and three times 

 the length of the head. The pectorals equal the length of 

 the head. The ventral spine is broad, flattened, and curved, 

 with longitudinal striae. The third, fourth, and fifth rays 

 equal, and as long as the head. 



In colour the specimen agrees with the description given 

 by Waite, but all the fin rays are more or less pale yellow, the 

 ventral spine and membrane blackish, and the caudal shows 

 three indistinct transverse dark bands. The large oval black 

 blotch on the dorsal extends from the thirteeenth to the 

 eighteenth rays, and is margined with creamy white, this 

 colour continuing along several of the rays in two broken lines. 

 The cheeks, opercula, and base of pectoi'al silvery ; eye yellow, 

 blotched above and below with black. 



A single example of this fish was taken oft" Queenscliff in 

 May last and forwarded, among others, to the Melbourne Fish 

 Market. It is in good condition, and measures eleven inches 

 in length. A second, though somewhat damaged, specimen 

 was found among an old collection of stuffed fishes in the 

 Museum. Unfortunately, no particulars are known con- 

 cerning it, though, as all the species in this collection occur in 



