Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Family SCIAENIDAE. 



SCIAENA Linnaeus, 1758 (umbra). 

 SCIAENA ANTARCTICA Castelnau (Butterfish, Mnlloway). 



Sciaeiia antarctka C'ast., P.Z.R., Viet., i, 1872, p. 100; Ten. Woods, Fish. N.S.W., 

 1883, p. 53, pi. xvi; Stead, Fish. Aust., 1906, p. 113, %. 42 and Edib. Fisli. 

 N.S.W., 1908, p. ()(i, pi. xxxvii; Roug-hley, Fish. Aust., 1916, p. 112, pi. xxxv. 



Corviua axillaris De Vis., P.L.S., N.S.W., ix, 1884, p. 538. 



Hciaeua neglecia Rams. 6c (^il., P.L.S., N.S.W. (2), i, 1886, p. 941. 



^ciaena aquila Oo'il., Edib. Fish. N.S.AV., 1893, p. 72. pi. xxii. 



Seiaoia hololepidota (infarcfira Ojiil.. Mem. Qld. Mus., vi, 1918, p. 70, ])1. xxi. 



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Fill-. 1(U. Sriactui antareiica. 



One of the most poj^ular food tishes of the State, j^leiitifnl, and of good 

 keeping' quality. 



Family MULLIDAE. 



UPENEUS Cuvier, 1829 (bifaseiatus). 



UPENEUS POROSUS Cuvier & Valenciennes (Red Midlet). 



Upeneus porosus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Xat, Poiss., iii, 1829, p. 455. 



Upeneichthys porosus Giinth., C'at. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 1859, ]). 400; Roughley, 



Fish. Aust., 1916, p. 139, pi. xliv. 

 Upeneichthys vlamiwjii Hect., T.N.Z. Inst., ix. 1877, p. 465, pi. ix, fig. 5. 

 IlypencKs vlamingii and H. porosus Ogil., Cat. Fish. N.S.W. , 1886, p. 17, 

 MuUus porosii!^ Ogil., Edib. Fish. N.S.W., 1893, p. 33. 



