ON THE GENUS "GONOERYNCHUS" (GKONOVIUS) 
By J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 
The presence of a Gonorrynchus in Moreton Bay, being the 
first record of the genus from the State of Queensland, enables me 
to supplement the short account of the family given by Griinther in 
the seventh volume of the British Museum Catalogue of Fishes, and 
copied verbatim by Macleay in his " Descriptive Catalogue of Aus- 
tralian Fishes," ii, pp. 190-1*; and also to correct some trifling 
orthographic errors in Waite's notice of its occurrence in the neigh- 
bourhood of Port Jackson. f The discovery now announced is due, 
like so many others from the same locality, to the acumen of Mr. 
J. T. Jameson, of Woody Point, who, recognizing that the fish 
belonged to a species with which he was unacquainted, brought it to 
me for identification ; the specimen, which is immature, is now in 
that gentleman's private collection. Waite's figure of the young 
fish {loc. cit.) might have been taken from Mr. Jameson's example, 
so accurate is it in every detail. 
FAMILY GONORRYNCHXDiE. 
Byynckcence Kner, Reise Novara, Fisch. p. 342, 1867. 
Gonorhynchidce Giinther, B.M. Catal. Fish., viii, p. 373, 1868 — Woodward, 
B.M. Catal. Foss. Fish., iv, p. 271, 1901. 
Isospondylous fishes, with elongate subcylindrical body, covered 
with minute oblong adherent ctenoid^ scales, which are arranged in 
regular series. Head conical, terminating anteriorly in a pointed 
cartilaginous snout, which overlaps the mouth, and bears on its 
lower surface one or two small barbels. Mouth inferior, small, 
and subovate ; premaxillaries not protractile, forming the entire 
border of the upper jaw ; behind them lie the slender maxillaries, 
* Originally published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 
South Wales, vol. vi, 1881, pp. 254-5. 
f Rec. Austr. Mus., v, 1904, p. 146, pi. xvii, fig. 3. 
% In our young example the scales are perfectly smooth to the touch, nor can 
I detect any trace of terminal spinules under a strong lens. 
