FISHES OF NEW ZEALAND. 



SUB-CLASS I,— TELEOSTEI. 



Fishes with a bony skeleton, and completely separated vertebrae ; 



branchiae free. 



Order I.— ACANTHOPTERYGIL 



Some of the rays of the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins not articulated, 

 forming spines. The inferior pharyngeal bones separated. 



PEPvCID^. 



Body oblong ; eye lateral ; prseopercnkim seiTated ; teeth pointed, 

 in villiforni bands, on the jaws, vomer, and p>alatine bones ; tongue 

 smooth ; one dorsal, the spinous poi'tion nearly equal to the soft ; anal 

 rather smaller than soft dorsal ; ventrals thoracic, with one spine and 

 live soft rays. 



Oligorus. 



Seven branchiostegals ; doi-sal with eleven spines, anal with tliree ; 

 operculum with one point ; scales small. 

 Australia. 



1. OLIGORUS GIGAS. Owen. CM. 



Hapuka. 



0. gigas, Giinth., I. 251. 



B. 7; D. Ji; A. |. 



Length equals three times that of the head ; height of body rather less 

 than the length of the head, Avhich is three and one-third times that of 



A 



