July 1, 1948. 
THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST 
Page Fifteen 
RECORDS OF FISH AND 
CEPHALOPOD 
File following fish and Cephalopod were 
obtained by me while fishing in one fathom 
with a seine net at Glenelg during one even- 
ing in November, 1947: — 
LONG BULLSEYE. Parapr [acanthus elonga- 
lus. 
A small fish with large eyes, generally pale 
in color, greyish above and a length of 132 
mm. or 5-j; inches. Approximately 100 speci- 
mens were obtained in a seine or hauling net. 
Although its inclusion among the fishes of 
South Australia had previously been based 
upon the official recording of a single ex- 
ample, it may now prove to be relatively 
plentiful. 
Figure 170 in “The Fishes of South Aus- 
tralia,” by Waite. 
SAND FISH. Gonorhynchus greyi. (Named 
after Governor George Grey) . Sandy in color, 
darker above and lighter below. Length 384 
mm. or 15^ inches. 
A primitive type of fish living on a sandy- 
bottom into which it is believed to burrow; 
does not appear in our markets in any quan- 
tity, although its flesh is firm and good in 
taste. The cross section of its body is almost 
round. It has a barbel below the snout and 
an undershot jaw, and in which respect it 
somewhat resembles a miniature shark or the 
common mouse. Its appearance on our 
beaches appears to be somewhat irregular 
and it is not frequently seen. In New Zea- 
land where it attains a length of 508 mm. or 
20 inches, it is called the “Sand Eel”: other 
common names are “Sand Shark,” “Beaked 
Salmon” and “Mouse Whiting.” Twenty 
specimens were obtained upon the same 
occasion as the Long Bullseyes referred to 
above. Living members of the family Gonor- 
hynchidae are found in Japan and St. Paul’s 
Island in addition to Australia and New 7 Zea- 
land. Fossil species occur in Europe and 
America. 
Figure 57 in “The Fishes of South Aus- 
tralia,” by Waite. 
TASMANIAN SQUID. Euprymno tasmanica. 
This small ten-armed Cephalopod was ob- 
tained at the same time, and the Conchologist 
at the S.A. Museum (Mr. B. C. Cotton) has 
only one other record from South Australia. 
H. M. COOPER. 
ORGANIC MATTER CARRIED ASHORE 
IN FOAM 
On Sunday-, January 11, 1948, the sea at 
Encounter Bay presented a yellowish-green 
appearance as if from suspended matter. This 
extended out as far as one could see from 
the land. Next afternoon, on walking to 
Petrel Cove beyond the Bluff, I found the 
usually pure white dry sand beyond usual 
tidal limits presenting a dirty appearance, 
the tide-swept sand being free from this. 
There was a strong sea-breeze blowing and an 
abundance of foam amongst the rocks. 
Flakes of this were being blown inland in 
considerable amounts. On catching some, 
it felt rather slimy and left behind a dirty 
mark. The rocks were covered with a dirty 
brownish friable deposit evidently derived 
from foam which had burst and dried up. 
This could be scraped up in considerable 
quantities and felt like a fine powder. Some 
foam squeezed into big envelopes left large 
discoloured patches. Foam had also dried 
on cuttlefish bones and other objects on the 
shore leaving discolored powdery patches on 
them. Some of the dried foam in the en- 
velopes and the powder on the rocks examined 
microscopically showed shreddy fragments 
apparently of organic matter staining brown 
with iodine, but showing no vascular bundles 
or other identifiable material. 
Where did this fine and light material, 
churned up in the foam and carried inland, 
come from? The fishermen thought it came 
from the Murray. If so the quantity must 
have been immense, as the sea was discolored 
as far out as could be seen. The same dis- 
coloration of the dry sand was also seen 
near Port Elliot on the beach on the Victor 
Harbor side (where foam was likely to have 
been blown ashore), but not nearer to Victor 
Harbour. 
J. B. CLELAND. 
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