EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 



EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND. 



Part IV.— SYNENTOGNATHI (No. 1). 

 Suborder I.— SCOMBRESOCOIDEA. 



By J. Douglas Ogilby (Ichthyologist). 



(Plates XIV to XXIII.) 



" Synentognaths with small scales and with the mouth tj'pically large, the 

 jaws usually produced and narrowed forwards; rami of the lower jaw united by 

 the interlocking of a series of inner processes (except in (■ololahis) ; maxillaries 

 firmly united to premaxillaries. Third upper pharyngeals moderately enlarged; 

 fourth usually present; lower pharyngeal triangular or long and narrow. 

 Pharyngeal teeth usuallj^ villiform or granular, some of the teeth of the principal 

 plates often compressed, tricuspid. Parasphenoid without apophysis; myodoine 

 elongate, the parasphenoid and pro-otic meeting in a long sutural union ; auditory 

 bulla, if distinct, little prominent, with but a shallow depression in front of it. 

 Posttemporal'more or less expanded and laminar, simple or with a small inner 

 fork ; supracleithrum small, partly or entirely hidden by the posttemporal ; 

 cleithrum connected with basioccipital by a strong ligament. Each pelvic bone 

 of an anterior subtriangular lamina and an erect laminar process, which is more 

 or less expanded superiorly." (Regan.)^ 



Key to the Scombresocoid Families, 

 a^. Both jaw?; produced, furnished with bands of small teeth. 



b^. Jaw with an additional sarie.-; of more or less enlarged erect conical pointed teeth ; no 

 finlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i. Belonid^. 



b'^. Jaw.^ without enlarged teeth ; finlets present . . . . . . Scombresocid.'e. 



Family I.— BELONID^. 



Scombresocidoi part. Gimther, Brit. Mus. Catal. Fish., vi, 1866, pp. 234-256 ; Day, Fish. India. 



pt. 3, 1877, pp. 509-512 ; Boiilenger, Cambridge Nat. Hist., vii, 1904, p. 637. 

 Mastacembeliformes Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vi, pt. 2, 1871, p. 43. 

 Esocidce Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1S95, p. 177 ; Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North 



& Mid Amer., pt. i, 1896, p. 708. 

 Belonidce Jordan and Starks. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, 1903, p. 526; Regan, Ann. 



& Mag Nat. Hist. (8) vii, 1911, p. 331. 



''THE NEEDLE-FISHES." 



Body usually much elcngated, covered with small flaky scales. Cleft of 

 mouth wide. Both jaws produced to form a stout pointed beak, armed with 

 bands of small sharp teeth and a single series of strong widely set erect conical 



1 Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hi t. (8) vii, 1911, p. 331. 



