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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Fig. 204. Arhorrodus (/ouldii. 



Two eoloiir varieties oceiir, respectively known as VAuo and Red Gropers. 

 Attains a length of 3.1 fec^ and a wei<i'ht of 40 11). Xot ••reatlv favoured as food. 



Family ODACIDAE. 



ODAX Ciivier, 1829 (pullus). 



ODAX RADIATUS Quoy & Gaimard. 



Malaconfhtis radidftis Qnoy (S: (Jaini., Xny Astrolabe, Zool., iii, 188."), ]i. 717. 



pi. xix, fig. 2. 

 Cheilio liiiratus Cnv. & Val.. Hist. Xat. Poiss., xiii, 183i>. p. 3r)4. 

 OfJax liiieafiis Ki<-li., Zool. Ereb. >S: Terr., 1848. p. 138, pi. Ix, fi-i'. l-"). 

 Odax rad'uiius Oiinth., Tat. Fish. Brit. Mas., iv. 1862, ]). 242. 



ODAX RICHARDSONII Gimther (Rock Whitino). 



Odax pullus Cnv. & Val, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiv. 1889, ]). 804, pi. eeecviii. fio-. 1 (not 



Forst. ) . 

 Odax richardsonii riiinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns.. iv, 1862, p. 241; Roughley, Fish. 



Aiist., 1916, p. 159, pi. Iv; Klnnz., Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixxx, 1880, 



p. 404; Ogil, Edib. Fish. N.S.W., 1898, p. 143, pi. xxxvi ; Stead, Edib. Fish. 



N.S.W., 1908, p. 85, pi. iv. 

 Odax hyrtlii Steiiid., Sitzl). Akad. Wiss. AVicn. liii, 1866, p. 464. 



