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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Fig. (i(3. N(<j,sc()jicU(s iitacriilcpidutus. 



Order N E M AT O G N AT H I . 



Family SILURIDAE. 



CNIDOGLANIS Giinther, 1S64 (meo'astoma). 



CNIDOGLANIS MEGASTOMA Richardson (Estuary Catfish). 



riotosKs mcgastonius Kich., Zool. Ereb. & Terr., 1845, p. 81, ]il. xxi, fig. 1-3. 

 Ciil(!o(jIanis megustoma Giiiith., Cat. Fish. Brit. Miis., a% lS(i4, p. 27; Ogil., Edib. 



Fish. N.S.W., 1893, p. 164; Stead, Edib. Fish. X.S.W., 1908, p. 29, pi. vii. 

 Chaeroplotosus decemfilis Kner, Reise Novara Pisehe, 1867, ]). 3()(), pi. xii, fig. 1. 

 fO.stuphyccphdlus duriccp.s Ogil., P.L.S., N.S.W., xxiv, 18!)9, p. ]r)6. 



Fig. (37. Ciiidoffhuiis incyasioina. 



A good-flavoured fish, but uusaleable owiug to its prejudicial a]ipearauee, 

 excepting at a nominal price to Asiatics. In our waters the fish is somewhat liable 

 to a peculiar condition, in which the l)ody is emaciated and the fins shrunken and 

 hardened. kSuch a s]iecinien a]^]K'ai-s to have been the foundatio7i of Ogilby's 

 Ostophyccphalits duriceps. 



