54 FISH AND FISH-LIKE ANIMALS OF N.S.W., 



195. SCOMBEROIDES Lacepede, H. N. Poiss. iii, 1801, p. 50 (commersunianns). 

 195a. S. sancti-petri. Leatherskin. Chorinemus sancti-petri Cuv. & VaL 



H. N. Poiss, viii, 1831, p. 379, pi. 230 (PI. 20ri.). 

 Not common in New South Wales waters. Length 20 inches. 



LXXXV111. Family Coryphaenidae. 



196. Coryphaena Linn.. Sysfc Nat. 10th Ed., 1758, p. 201 (hippurus). 



190a. C. HIPPURUS. Dolphin. Id. Linn., Tom cit.j Id. Day, Fish. India, 



1870, p. 248, pi. 53, (PI. xxiii.). 

 An oceanic species ranging oxer all warm seas. Length feet. 



LXXXIX. Family Bramidae. 



197. Brama Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 98 (ran). 



197a. B. rail Sparus rail Bloch, Ausl. Fische v, 1791, p. 95, pi. 273. B. 



raii McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict. dec. xiv, 1887, pi. 133 (PI. xxiii.). 

 The only record of this species from New South Wales is unsatisfactory, but 

 the fish is widely distributed, and probably occurs on the coast. Length 30 inches. 



XC. Family Centropomidae. 



A. Dorsal spines increasing in height backwards; scales in about 50 rows. 



Glaucosoma ( 198 ) . 

 AA. Posterior dorsal spines shorter than the anterior; scales in about 30 rows. 



Ambassis (199). 



198. Glaucosoma (Temm. & Schleg.) Richardson, Ichth. Erebus & Terror, 1846, 



p. 27 (buryeri). 

 198a. G. scapulare. Pearl Perch. Id. (Ramsay) Macleay, P.L.S.N.S.W. 



v, 1881, p. 334. pi. 13. Id. Roughley, Fish. Austr., 1916, p. 83, pi. 25 



(PI. xxiii.). 

 A deeper water species occurring on the northern portions of the coast. 

 Length 2 feet. 



199. Ambassis Cuv. & VaL, H. N. Poiss. ii, 1829, p. 170 (ambassis). 



A. Lateral line complete. Jacksoniensis (199a' 



AA. Lateral line interrupted or obsolete. Subgenus Priopis. 



B. 1011 dorsal and anal rays; marine. ramsavi (199b) . 



BB. 7-8 dorsal and anal rays; fresh water. 



C. Eye shorter than postorbital part of head; fins plain. 



castelnaui (199c). 



CC. Eye as long as postorbital part of head; dorsals and ventrals tipped 



with black. agassizi (199d). 



199a. A. jacksoniensis. Id. Macleay, P.L.S.N.S.W. v, 1881, p. 340. 

 A small fish assembling in schools around wharf-piles in inlets along the 

 i oast. Length 2J inches. 



199b. A. ramsayi. Pseudoambassis ramsai/i. Macleay, P.L.S.N.S.W. v, 



1881, p. 340. Priopis ramsayi McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour i. 1. 



1911, p. 57, pi. 16. 3 (PI. xxiii.). 



.1. buruensis Bleeker, has been included in a New South Wales list by Waite 



(Mem. N.S. Wales Nat. Club ii, 1904, p. 29). The record is perhaps based upon 



specimens of A. ramsayi, the two species being very similar. 



