PART II 



PISCES 



ANTARCTIC FISHES 



BY EDGAR R. WAITE, F.L.S. 



Curator, Canterbury Museum, New Zealand 

 (With Plabe II.) 



THE collection of fishes placed in my hands for report by Sir Ernest Shackleton is 

 quite a small one, comprising five species only. 



Of these, four were described by Dr. Boulenger from the proceeds of the 

 Southern Cross Expedition.* When examining this latter collection, Boulenger 

 separated off, on an osteological character, certain Nototheniids under the name 

 Trematomus : four species were referred to this genus, namely, T. newnesi, 

 T. borchgrevinki, T. hansoni, and T. bernacchii, all from the Antarctic, and new, whilst 

 fifteen were retained as Notothenia, two only of which were taken in Antarctica, 

 namely, N. nicholai and N. coriiceps. 



Reporting on the fishes of the National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, taken 

 on the voyage of the Discovery, Boulenger t records three of the four known 

 species of Trematomus, that is, T. borchgrevinki, T. hansoni, and T. bernacchii, and 

 four species of Notothenia, two of which were new, namely, N. scotti and N. hodgsoni. 



Among the collection obtained by the Expedition Antarctique Frangaise, 1903- 

 1905, Professor VaillantJ found eight species of Notothenia, but not a single 

 species of Trematomus. 



In the absence of the reports by Dollo on the fishes of the Belgica Expedition, 

 and by Lonnberg on those of the Swedish South Polar Expedition, I cannot make 

 further comparison, and the want of the latter paper makes it impossible for me to 

 specifically determine, at present, the single example of the genus Artedidraco taken 

 on the Expedition. 



Lonnberg has described two species of this genus, namely, Artedidraco mirus and 



* Boulenger, SoutJi&rn Cross Exped. Report, 1902, Pisces, p. 174. 

 t Boulenger, Zoology, Nat. Antarct. Exped., Fishes, 1907. 

 J Vaillant, Exped. Antarct. Frang., 1906, Poissons. 



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