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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Fi}i'. l-")]. Diiiolcsh s Iciriiii. 



This fish has no noar rclationsliiji to llic Snook, wiiich is also known as the 

 Short-finned Pike. 



Family SILLAGINIDAE. 



SILLAGINODES Gill, ISfH ^pimctatns). 



SILLAGINODES PUNCTATUS Cuvier & Valenciennes (Si^otted Whiting). 



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SUlago punctata V\\\. k \i\\., ITist. Xat. Poiss., iii. IS'2!). p. 413; Quoy k Gaim. 



Voy. Astro!., iii, 1835, p. (i71, pi. i. ti<>'. 1 : Stead, Edib. Fish. X.S.W., 1908, 



p. 66, pi. xxxvi. 

 HiUa/jinodcs pioicfatiis (Jill, Pi-oc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil., 1861, p. 305. 

 JsosilJago in<(ciil(if(i ^Mad., P.L.S., X.S.W.. iii, 1878, p. 84. ])1. iv, fig. 3 fnot Qnoy 



& Gaim.). 



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Fig. 1-j2. Sillagiiiodcs punctutus. 



The largest and most esteemed of the Anstralian Whitings; attains a length 

 oi' 20 inches. 



