MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



CHECK- LIST OF THE CEPHALOCHORDATES, 

 SELACHIANS, AND FISHES OF QUEENS- 

 LAND. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby. 



(With Two Text-figures.) 



For many years check-lists of the fishes of Tasmania,^ New South Wales,^ 

 Victoria,^ and South Austraha (in part)^ have been in existence,^ the while Queensland 

 Avith, perhaps because of, her magnificent fish-fauna was content to remain unhsted. 

 The present work is designed to remove this reproach from our State. 



The model on which it is proposed to fashion the check-list is as follows : — 



(1.) Higher divisions, from Class to Family ; scientific name only or scientific 

 name and general vernacular name. 



(2.) Genus ; earhest scientific name and reference, with such synonym or 

 synonyms as may at any time have been in use among or famihar to Austrahan, 

 authors. 



(3.) Species ; earhest scientific name Avith author, and vernacular name or 

 names if any ; where more than one vernacular name is given, that which is con- 

 sidered preferable is printed in Small Capitals ; references to the earhest author, 

 to Gfinther's " Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum" and Macleay's 

 " Descriptive Catalogue of Austrahan Fishes" ^ if included in either, and faihng" 

 them to the earhest Austrahan notice ; reference to the earhest record for 

 Queensland. 



(4.) Illustration ; reference to the best figure or figures, preference being given 

 to Austrahan work or, where that is not available, to the best figure in the Queensland 

 Museum Library. 



1 Johnston ; Classified Catalogue of the Fishes of Tasmania (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1882, pp. 

 53-144) and Complete List of Tasmanian Species (Ibid., 1890, pp. 30-39). 



V 2 Ogilby ; Catalogue of the Fishes of New South Wales, with their principal synonyms, 



1886, pp. 1-67. 

 ^ Waite ; A Synopsis of the Fishes of New South Wales (Mem. N. S. Wales Natur. Cltib, 



No. 2, 1904, pp. 1-59). 

 1/ ^ Lucas ; A Systematic Census of Indigenous Fish, hitherto recorded from Victorian Waters 



(Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic. — ^new ser. — ii, 1890, pp. 15-47). 



* Zietz ; A Synopsis of the Fishes of South Australia ; pt. i, Leptocardii, Gyclostomata, 

 ^ Plagiostomi, and Holocephali (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xxxii, 1908, pp. 288-293) ; pt. ii, Clupeidce 



to Syngnathidce (Ibid., pp. 294-299 ; pt. iii, Symjnathidce cont. to Serranidce, part (Ibid., xxxiii, 

 1909, pp. 263-269). 

 V 5 Even West Australia has a list of sorts (Fraser, Natural History, etc., of Western Australia, 



1903, pp. 150-154), but as, among other eccentricities, so well known a fish as the " tailor" appears 

 twice thus — Pomatomus saltatrix, Freemantle, p. 151 and Tcmnodon saltuton, " Tailor-fish," p. 152 — 

 perhaps the less said about it the better. 



* Only the catalogue number of the species is given. 



