MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, Vol. XI, P^sf® 
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FURTHER ICHTHYOLOGICAL MISCELLANEA. 
Br Gilbert Whitley, Ichthyologist, The Australian Museum, Sydney. 
(Contribution from The Australian Museum.) 
(Plates XI— XIII.) 
The contents of this paper are in continuation of the miscellaneous descriptions 
and notes which I have contributed to these Memoirs in 1930 and 1936. A collection 
of fishes sent for report by the Director of the Queensland Museum forms the basis 
of the present paper but I have added sundry notes on allied subjects. Bibliographies 
of two important commercial fishes (the Pilchard and the Murray Cod) are given, so 
that students of these species wdll at least have all the references to their scattered 
literature gathered together here for quicker information. 
I am indebted to Messrs. H. A. Longman and T. C. Marshall, of the Queensland 
Museum, for the loan of many specimens and notes concerning them ; to Miss Joyce 
Allan for drawing a new species of Cephalopholis ; and to Mr. G. C. Glutton for photo- 
graphic illustrations. 
Family CLUPEIDAE. 
In spite of their economic importance, the fishes of this family have been largely 
neglected by systematists and their present classification, particularly as regards 
Australian species, leaves much to be desired. Whilst some of the species have been 
reviewed from time to time, their generic positions have usually been ignored, the 
word Clupea having too often been used as a sort of pigeon hole into which all sorts 
of herrings have been squeezed. 
The family Clupeidac includes both fossil and recent genera, but only the latter 
concern us here, and there are some seventy or more of these so far named, though 
not all of these are valid by any means. 
Before an adequate revision of the Australian Clupeidae can be undertaken, 
it -will be necessary to describe and figure certain types in greater detail than has yet 
been attempted, or at least describe specimens from topotypical material ; also, the 
various generic limits will have to be defined and correct generic names, with genotypes, 
assigned to the various species. Meanwhile, the following notes may be useful in 
reviewing some of the scattered information available or in clearing up some minor 
taxonomic points. 
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