Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Thouji'li coninionly taken and eaten, it is not to be compared with tlie fisii 

 known as Sea Mnllet. 



Family SPHYRAENIDAE. 



SPHYRAENA Rose, 179:] (sphyraena). 



SPHYRAENA NOVAE-KOLLANDIAE Giinther (Snook, Short-finned Pike). 



Sphyraena novac-hollandiae Giinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns., ii, 1860, ]). 335; Og'ik, 

 Edib. Fish. N.S.W., 1893, pi. xxx (deserii)tion, p. 114, is of N. waiir, Ogil.) ; 

 lionghley, Fish. Anst., li)l(i, ]>. 4:). 



\'''\'-X.. 1_'S. SjilniraciKi iiiiVdc-liolhiiulidc. 



An excellent table iish, and att'oi'ds good s]ioi-t l)_v ti-ailing a hire after a 

 sailing boat. It attains to 3 feet in length. 



SPHYRAENA OBTUSATA Cuvier & Valenciennes (Pike). 



Siyhijraena ohiumta Cnv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1829, p. 3:)() ; (iiinth., Fische 



Siidsee, ii, 1877, p. 212. pi. cxix, fig. B. 

 8ph]jrd('}]a pa}':cau(Ja Rnpjx, Xcn<> Wii-belt., Fisch., 1835, p. 100, \^\, xxv, fig. 3. 



Fin'. Il2!l. S/i!i tiriiiii-i uhl ii.^dla. 



