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Records of the S.A. Museum 



Fig. 280. (l)i(ith(Uiac<iiilhus f/<i<'i.:cri. 

 Si'XM'iiiiciis ol)1aiii('(] Jilivc, in our waters, arc of hcautiful oi'aii*:'!' colour 



Family PLATYCEPHALIDAE. 



PLATYCEPHALUS Bloch, 1795 (spatlmlaV 

 PLATYCEPHALUS FUSCUS Ciivier & Valenciennes (Dusky Flathead). 



riaiijcepJiahi^ fiiscii.'^ Cnv. & Val.. Hist. Xat. Poiss., \\\ 182i), ]i. 241 ; Qnoy & Claim., 

 Voy. Astrolabe, iii, IF.']."), p. fiSl, pi. x, %. 1 ; (\oil.. Edil). Fish. X.S.W., 1893, 

 p. 105, pi. xxviii; Stead, Edib. Fish. X.S.W.. 1908, p. Ill, ])1. Ixxvii ; 

 Roughley, Fish. Au.st.. IDKi. p. 181. ]il. Ixiii. 



fPIatycephalus cinerrn.'i Cliinth.. P.Z.S., 1871. p. (i(i2. 



<4JZ' 



Fig. 281. I'Idt /!(■( jilKihi.s fiiscHS. 



All Ihc Flatheads arc iiood food. The Dusky and Saml Flatheads ai'e the 

 species coiinnoidy markcled in Adelaide, 



