EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND— OGILBV. 67 



■Gill's gfiius Atructoscioii, thus associating in a natural group our fish with the 

 Otolithus a'quidois'-'' of the Cape Seas, and removing from that genus all the 

 species of (hjnoscion included by Jordan and Evermann under the subgeuei'ic 

 title Atractoscion,^" which, having canine teeth in the upper jaw, manifestly can 

 not be associated with fishes Avhich have the "teeth cardiforni and pluriserial" 

 without canines in either jaw. 



ATRACTOSCION ATELODUS (Giinther). 



Otutitlnif! aldodns GiiTither, Ann. \- Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, 1867, p. 60; Woods, Fish. & 



Fisher. N. S. Wales, 1882, p. .54, pi. xvii; Ogilby, Catal. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1886, p. 24; 



id., Edib. Fish. N. S. Wales, 189.-!, p. 75, pi. xxiii. 

 Otolithux teraglin Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, v. 1880, p. 48. 

 Cynoscion ateJodus Waite, Synops. Fish. N. S. Wales, 1904, p. 31; Stead, Fish. Austr., 1906, 



p. 113; id., Edib. Fish N. S. Wales, 1908, p. 67, pi. xxxviii; Eoughley, Fish Austr., 1916, 



p. 115, pi. xxxvi. 



TERAGLIN. 



Type localities: — Australia (0. atelodus). 



Sydney Market (0. teraglin). 

 Body slenderly elliptical and compressed, the ventral contour much more 

 arched than the dorsal, which is but gently rounded from the occiput to the 

 peduncle, its depth about one fourth of its length and a little less than the length 

 of the head. Abdomen long, its length from ventral-ba.se to vent 2-25 in that of 

 the body and four fifths more than the space between the vent and the root of 

 the caudal. Caudal peduncle about one third longer than deep, its least depth 8-6 

 in the length of the head. Head with the upper jDrofile linear or feebly 

 emarginate, its length 3-5 to 3-67 in that of the body. Snout slightly blunt 

 anteriorly, its length 3-67 in that of the head. Eye small, its diameter 1-5 to 1-67 

 in that of the snout, and 5-8 to 6-25 in that of the head. Preorbital narrow, its 

 width about one half of the eye-diameter. Interorbital region rather wide and 

 convex, its width from one third to one half more than the eye-diameter and 4-12 

 to 4-38 in the length of the head. Nostrils moderately approximate, pierced in a 

 naked groove directly in front of the eye, the anterior small and circular, the 

 posterior elongate-oval and vertical. Lower jaw projecting; cleft of mouth wide 

 and but little oblique, rising to the level of the middle of the eye. Maxillary 

 extending to below or a little beyond the hinder border of the eye, its length 2 to 

 2-25 in that of the head, the width of its rounded distal extremity nearly equal 

 to the eye-diameter. Preoi^ercle rounded, the vertical limb and angle with a few 

 small slender distant teeth, which usually disappear with advancing age ; opercle 

 .with two feeble spines. 



Premaxillary teeth in a villiform band, broadest in front, and a sym- 

 physial patch of much stronger recurved cardiform teeth, and with one or two 

 rows of stout teeth along each side ; mandible with a large anterior patch of teeth 



==Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1830, p. 66. 

 ="Fish. North & Mid. Amer., pt. 2, 1898, pp. 1413 to 1415 incl. 



