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3. Galaxias ATTENUATUS. (Plates XII. fig. 1, and XIII. fig. 2.) 



Mesites attenuatus Jenyns, Zool. 'Beagle,' Fish. p. 121, pi. xxii. 

 fig. 5 (1842). 



Galaxias truttaceus (non Cuv.) Yalenc. in Cuv. Regne Anim., 

 Poiss. pi. xcvii. fig. 2 (1829). 



Galaxias scriba Cuv. & Yal. Hist. ISTat. Poiss. xviii. p. 347 (1846) 

 Riclmrcls. Zool. ' Erebus ' & ' Terror,' Fish. p. 66 (1848) ; Giinth 

 Cat. Fish. vi. p. 212 (1866). 



Galaxias attenuatus Cuv. & Yal. t. c. p. 348 ; Giintii. t. c. p. 210 

 Hutton, Fish. N. Zeal. p. 60, pi. x. fig. 96 (1872); Klunz. Sitzb 

 Ak. Wien, Ixxx. 1879, p. 412 ; Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S 

 Wales, vi. 1881, p. 230; Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 

 1882, p. 130; Hutton, Trans. New Zealand Inst, xxviii. 1896, 

 p. 317 ; Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxi. 1896, p. 71 ; 

 Clarke, Trans. New Zealand Inst. xxxi. 1899, p. 78. 



Galaxias macidatus (non Jenyns) Richards, t. c. p. 75, pi. xliii. 

 figs. 14-17. 



Galaxias minutiis Philippi, Arch. f. Nat. 1858, vol. xxiv. i. p. 309. 



Galaxias krefftii Giinth. t. c. p. 211. 



Galaxias picnctatus Giinth. t. c. p. 212. 



Galaxias tuaterhousei Krefl^t, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 943; 

 Klunz. 1. c. 



Galaxias cylindricus Casteln. Proc. Roy. Soc. Yictoria, i. 1872, 

 p. 177 ; Macleay, t. c. p. 235. 



Galaxias delicatulus Casteln. t. c. p. 178 ; Macleay, 1. c. 



Galaxias camphelU Sauv. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iv. 1880, p. 229. 



Galaxias nebulosa Macleay, t. c. p. 234. 



Galaxias alpinus (part.), Smitt, Bill. Svenska Ak. xxvi. iv. 

 No. 13, p. 21, pi. ii. figs. 9-12 (1901). 



Teeth in the jaws subequal, without distinct enlarged canines. 

 Depth of body 5|-10 in the length, length of head 5-6|. Snout 

 a little longer than eye (in the adult), the diameter of which is 3 

 (young)-5 in the length of head, interorbital width 2|-2|. Jaws 

 equal anterioi-ly ; maxillary extending about to the vertical from 

 anterior mai-gin of eye or a little beyond, 6 or 7 branchiostegals. 

 9-11 gill-rakers on the lower part of the anterior arch. Dorsal 

 10-13 (III-IY 7-9) ; distance from origin of dorsal to base of 

 caudal 3| (young) -4| in the length of the fish. Anal 16-19 (III-Y 

 12-15), commencing below the origin of dorsal. Pectoral ex- 

 tending from less than 5 to more than | of the distance from its 

 base to the base of ventral. Yentrals 7-rayed, originating at a 

 point about eqxiidistant from tip of snout and base of caudal or 

 from base or anterior part of pectoiul and origin of anal, extending 

 less than --- of the distance from their base to the origin of anal. 

 Caudal slightly emarginate. Caudal peduncle lj-2 as long as 

 deep. Golden or oiunge ; upper parts of head and body finely 

 punctulated with blackish and spotted or marbled with dark 

 purplish ; fins immaculate. 



South Australia, Yictoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, New 



