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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
ICHTHYOLOGICAL MISCELLANEA. 
By Gilbert P. Whitley, Ichthyologist, The Australian Museum, Sydney.* 
(Plate I.) 
The Director of the Queensland Museum has kindly submitted for 
determination an interesting collection of fishes from that institution. With 
the exception of a fine specimen of Chcetodon ( Citharcedus ) meyeri (Bloch & 
Schneider) from Ivaewieng, New Ireland, and a Triorus reipublicm (Ogilby) 
labelled Papua, all the .specimens came from Queensland, and a selection from 
them forms the basis of this paper. Some nomenclatorial notes which more or 
less directly concern Queensland fishes are also included and a few allied 
Western Australian forms have been compared with the eastern species. Fishes 
from Low Isles, North Queensland, will be dealt with in a forthcoming report 
on the fishes collected there in association with the British Great Barrier Reef 
Expedition, and it is hoped that the taxonomic notes in the present paper will 
help to lighten the burden of synonymy in the Low Isles report. Some of 
these notes may seem to be rather brief, but are nevertheless the result of close 
study of specimens and literature and may be amplified in future ; it is 
necessary to introduce them in their present form to provide for various 
hitherto unrecognised items " a local habitation and a name.” 
The work on the ichthyology of Queensland performed during the last 
five years may be here reviewed, so that those who desire to keep the list of 
Queensland fishes up to date may have the means at their disposal. A list of 
the fishes recorded from Queensland waters was provided in the eighth volume 
of these Memoirs in 1925, and a bibliography containing 174 references was 
appended thereto. This list was mainly concerned with the period from about 
I860, when Gunther’s Catalogue was being produced, to modern times,' so that 
it is probable that an analysis of literature anterior to the Guntherian period 
would bring to light interesting early records of Queensland fishes. The fish- 
fauna of this State is so rich and varied that additional species, both endemic 
and extralimital, will doubtless be recorded from its waters for many years to 
come, and much careful research will have to .be undertaken before any sort 
of coup-d mil of its fauna can be obtained. The troublesome noniina nuda of 
Saville-Kent will have to be disposed of with care, preferably by being relegated 
to the synonymy of known Queensland species, and the types of the less known 
species of De Vis, Castelnau, and others must be re-described and figured before 
much original w T ork can safely be performed. 
By permission of the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 
