84 THE EDIBLE FISHES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
White-spotted Parrot-Fish (Pseudolabrus gymnogenis). 
Puate LIII. 
This is one of our common rock-fishes, though not often 
to be seen in our markets. As an edible fish it is likely to 
become of some importance, when trammel-nets are more 
freely used along our coastline. It commonly attains to a 
length of 8 or 9 inches. 
Crimson-banded Parrot-Fish (Pseudolabrus nigromarginatus). 
Though for convenience sake I have used the specific 
designation which has, in the past, been applied to this 
fish, I have no doubt that it is specifically identical with 
Pseudolabrus gymnogenis, and that the differences in color 
and size are no more than sexual, the Crimson-banded Parrot- 
Fish being the male and the White-spotted Parrot-Fish the 
female. Contrary to the general rule amongst our fishes 
in which secondary sexual characteristics occur, the male 
attains a considerably larger size than the female. 
Green Parrot-Fish (Pseudolabrus laticlavius). 
Common in shallow water, and at moderate depths 
round rocky shores, lurking amongst seaweed. Grows to a 
length of 12 or 13 inches. Not likely to become of economic 
importance. 
Lilac-banded Parrot-Fish (Pseudolabrus cyanogenys). 
At present rare. It attains a length of 18 inches or 
more. 
King Parrot-Fish (Coris rez). 
Little is known in regard to this rock-fish, which attains 
a good marketable size—nearly 18 inches.* 
Maori (Coris lineolatus). 
y. Prate LIV. 
This is one of the most abundant of our Parrot-Fishes, 
and is a good food-fish. It is easily captured by means of 
hook and line or the trammel-net, in the vicinity of sunken 
* There is a fine specimen of this handsome fish, measuring 174 inches, in 
the collection of the New South Wales Department of Fisheries. It was captured 
off Fairy Bower (Manly), not far from Sydney Heads. 
