48 FISHES OF NEAV ZEALAND. 



77. GENYPTERUS BLACODES. Porst. CM. 



Ling-. 



G. hlacodes, Giinth., IV., 379. 



Length equal to seven times that of tlie head, or nearly ten times the 

 height of the body ; length of the head eight times the diameter of the 

 eye ; barbels (ventrals) with the outer filament longer, about one half 

 the length of the head ; head covered with a thick soft skin. 



Back purplish, the rest reddish white marbled on the sides "with 

 reddish purple ; silvery ; vertical fins margined with white. 



Common in the southern pai-ts of the country, and attains a very 

 large size. 



The specimen from which this description was taken measured 3| feet 

 in length, and was considered a small one. 



Coasts of Chili and Peru. 



FIERASFER. 



Body produced into a very long and tapering tail, naked ; vertical 

 fins continuous, very low ; no ventrals nor barbels ; cardiform teeth on 

 the jaws, vomer, and palatine bones, sometimes with canines j vent at 

 the thi-oat ; gill openings wide ; seven branchiostegals. 



Europe, Indian Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand (Giinth.) 

 No particular species of this genus is mentioned in Dr. Giinther's 

 Catalogue as coming from New Zealand. 



MACRURID.'E. 



Body terminating in a long compressed tapering tail, covered with 

 spiny, keeled, or striated scales ; one short anterior dorsal, the second 

 very long and continued to the end of the tail ; anal similar to the 

 second dorsal ; ventrals thoracic or jugular, composed of sevei-al rays ; 

 six or seven branchiostegals. 



Macrurus. 



Scales of moderate size, keeled or spiny ; snout produced, conical ; 

 mouth inferior ; teeth in a band, villiform or cardiform, without larger 

 ones in the outer series ; palate smooth ; ventrals nearly below the 

 pectorals ; a barbel. 



MediteiTanean and North Atlantic, Japan, Australia. 



