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CHECK LIST OF THE FISH AND FISH-LIKE ANIMALS OF 

 NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Part iii 



By Allan R. MeCulloeh, Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



(By permission of the Trustees of the Australian Museum.) 



XCIX. Family Mullidae. 



A. Palate toothless; teeth of jaws in 1-2 rows Upeneus (213). 



AA. Vomer with, palatines with or without teeth. 



B. Palatines with teeth. Upeneoides (214). 



BB. Palatines toothless. Lpeneichthys (215). 



213. Upeneus Cuvier, Reg. Anim. (2 ed.) ii., 1829, p. 157 (bifasciatus). 

 213a. U. signatus. Spotted Red Mullet. Id. Gunther, A.M.N.H. (3) 



xx, 1867, p. 59. Mullus signatus Ogilby, Ed. Fish. N.S.W., 1893, p. 35, 

 pi. 11. 

 Though the young of this species are plentiful in Port Jackson, the adults 

 are not often seen. Length 10 inches. 



(A specimen recorded by Bleeker as U. spilurus Bleeker, from Port Jackson, 

 Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. ii, 1865, p. 71, is probably U. signatus). 



214. Upeneoides Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. xxii, 1849, p. 63 (vittatus). 

 214a. U. tragula. Upeneus tragula Richardson, Ichth. China, 1845, p. 220. 



Upeneoides tragula Day, Fish. India, 1875, p. 121, pi. 30, 4 (PI. xxv). 

 Young specimens are captured by seine fishermen, but adults are rare in 

 our waters. Length 9 inches. 



215. Upeneichthys Bleeker, Verh. Akad. Amsterdam ii, 1855, p. 7 (porosus). 

 215a. U. porosus. Blue-striped Red Mullet. Upeneus porosus Cuvier & 



Valenciennes, H. N. Poiss. iii, 1829, p. 455. Upeneichthys porosus 



Roughley, Fish. Austr., 1916, p. 139, pi. 44 (PI. xxv). 



A brilliantly coloured fish occurring around rocky headlands. Length 10 

 inches. 



(Z7. vlamingii Cuv. & Val., has been recorded from Port Jackson by Castel- 

 nau, F.L.S. N.S.W. iii, 1879, p. 372. The record was evidently based upon a 

 specimen of U. porosus). 



