SOME NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN FISHES 

 FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 



Bv 

 ALLAN R. McCULLOCH, Zoologist Australian Muskum, (i) 



AND 



EDGAR R. WAITE, F.L.S., Dirfctor South Australian Muskum. 

 Plates ii-vii; Text figs. 26-3L 



Tins paper is the result of an examination of some fishes preserved in the South 

 Australian Museum, and marked "Old Collection," but specimens in the Austra- 

 lian ]\Iuseum have also been used for comparison. Many of the fishes were un- 

 named, and the names attached to soiue of the others were found to be incorrect. 

 A few species recently collected by one of us from rock pools at Kangaroo Lsland 

 are also included. 



Family SYNGNATHIDAE. 

 SYNGNATHUS CURTIROSTRIS Castelnau. 



Syin/iiatlius curtirastris Castelnau. Proc. Zool. Soc. \'ict., i, 1872. p. 243, and ii, 

 i''^73' P- 79- Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. \\'ales. vi, 188 1, p. 290. Johns- 

 ton. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm.. 1S90 ( iS()i ), p. ^j. Zietz. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. 

 Aust., xxxii, 1908, p. 298. Duncker, P'aun. Sudwest-Austr., ii, 1909, p. 244. 

 Plate V, fig. I. 



D.21-24: P.8-9: \'.3: CIO: Annul! 184-43: Subdorsal annul! 0-1, 4-4*. 

 ATale pouch covering 16 caudal rings. 



Head 3 in the trunk, and 12-1 in the total length: snout 27 in the head, and 

 r •! in the postorbital portion: eye I '8 in the snout, and 3 in the head: caudjfl 

 almost twice as long as the rest of the body. 



Snout short and broad, with a median keel before the eyes : interorbital space 

 slightly concave, convex on the median line: head with reticulating raised lines, 

 and radiating scries of raised lines on the operculum ; no median opercular keel : 

 occipital and nuchal ridges rudimentary; body and tail rings with sharp angles, 

 but no spines. P>ody scarcely deeper than wide, the depth equal to the length of 

 the snout. 



(1) By permission of the Trustees of the AustraHan Museum. 



