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Figure : — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vi, pi. 271, fig. 3. 



Dimensions : — To a length of 1800 millim. " It grows to six feet in India, but 

 specimens from New Guinea up to tweh^e feet are recorded " (Day). 



Uses : — " While of good flavor, it is unfortunately so full of small bones as^to 

 be almost useless . . . could probably be turned to good account if cut into 

 suitable lengths and preserved in tins, after the manner of sardines, under such 

 concUtions that the bones would be dissolved . . . highly prized as a bait for 

 the capture of the giant perch, Lates calcarifer"' (Kent). 



Range : — Coasts of Queensland from south to north. 



Family IV— CHANEIDiE. " The Milk-Fishes." 



• Genus 5— CHANOS Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1803, p. 295 {arabicus = 

 chanos). Syn. — -Lutodeira Riippell 1905. 



5. chanos Forskal. " Moreton Bay Salmon." 



Descr. Anim. 1775, p. 74 : Jeddah (as Mugil chanos) — Gunther, Catal., vii, 

 p. 473 ; Macleay, Catal., 904 (as Chanos salmoneus). 



Figure : — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vi, pi. 272, fig. 4 (as C. salmoneus). 



Dimensions : — Attains a length of at least 1200 milhm. 



Uses : — One of our most deHcious food fishes. 



Range : — Coasts of Queensland from south to north, entering fresh water. 



Family V— CLUPEID^. 

 Subfamily a — DUSSUMIERIIN^. " The Round Herrings." 



Genus 6— STOLEPHORUS Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1803, p. 381 



(japonicus). Syn. — Spratelloides Bleeker 1852.*^ 



6. delicatulus Bennett. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, i, 1830, p. 168 : Mauritius (as Chtpea delicatula) — ■ 

 Giinther, Catal., vii, p. 464 ; Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, i, p. 350 (as Spratelloides delicatulus). 



Figure : — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vi, pi. 264, fig. 3. 



Dimensions : — To 80 miUim. 



Uses: — ^" A very delicate and dehcious fish" {Macleay). "Might doubtless 

 be turned to commercial account ' {Kent). 



Range : — Coast of North Queensland. Darnley Island {Alleyne 4- Macleay). 

 Many of the inter-tropical districts of the Queensland Coast {Kent). Murray Island 

 {McGulloch). 



^ *i Weber and Beaufort (Verb. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam (2) xvii, 1912, No. 8, p. 20) base their 

 objection to the use of Lacepede's name for these fishes on the fact that his second species is undeni- 

 ably an anchovy ; but since the first species mentioned by him, the Atherinn japonica of Houttuyn, 

 is not congenei-ic with his second species, S. commersonianus, it follows that, so far as the genus. 

 Stolephoms is concerned, the latter has no standing whatever. 



