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Vx'-^. lllfi. I'ldi-iiiclil li(i(l( s f/('i'riir>ll. ^ 



All excellent and lii«>']ily esleeiued food fish, sCfU'cely distingniishable from the 

 Nannygai. All three s|)e('ies of lhe ^eiuis are of l)eaiitiful red colour. 



Family TRACHICHTHYIDAE. 



HOPLOSTETHUS Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829 (mediterraneus), 



HOPLOSTETHUS MEDITERRANEUS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Hoplostethus meditrrraneus Cuv. & Val.. Hist. Xat. Poiss., iv, 1829, p. 469, pi. 



xeviii, his; Steind. & Doder., Deiiks. Akad. Wiss. AVieu, xlvii, 1883, p. 218, pi. 



i; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichth, 189.1, p. 189, pi. Ivi. fig. 208; Alcock, Illus. 



Zool. Investigator, 1895, ])1. xiv, fig. 3. 

 Trachichthtjs pretiosiis Lowe, P.Z.S.. 1839, p. 77. 



Iloplosteth i(s japonicus Hilgeiid., Sitzl). Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1879, p. 78. 

 Hoplostethus mediterraneus var. laius McGull., Endeavour Res., ii, 1914, p. 97, 



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