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BIBUOGRAPHY OF THE MURRAY COD. 
1824. Wentworth, W. C., Statistical Acc. Brit. Settlements Australia, ed. 3. 
1825. Lesson, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) vi, Nov. 1825, pp. 253 and 254, footnote. Named without 
descr. as Qrypies hrisbanii^ from Macquarie R., N. S. Wales. (Where Lesson had 
collected the types, of the “ Trout Cod ” form, at Bathurst). 
(1827. Cunningham, Allan, got Murray Cod in the Mitchell -Namoi R., N.S.W., and the Dumaresq 
R., S. Queensland.) 
— 1828. Lesson, Voyage de la ‘‘ Coquille ” (Duperrey), i, 2, 1828, p. 396. 
18 9. Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, April 1829, p. 58 (Original descr. of Qrystes 
fnacquariensis) ; Cuvier, Kegne Anim. ed. 2, ii, April, 1829, p. Is5. 
(Jan. 1829 and 1830. Sturt found Cod in the Murray River). 
- 1831. Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool. ii, 1831, p. 227. (Bathurst, as G. hrishanii). 
(Dec. 1831 and Jan. 1832. Mitchell <iiscovered a supposed new species in the Peel River). 
1834. Sturt, Two Expeditions ii, 1834, pp. 35, 42, and 113. (Murrumbidgee). 
1834. Bennett, Wanderings in N. S. Wales, 1834, p. 179. (Yass and Murriunbidgee). 
1836. Valenciennes, Regne Animal Cuvier (disciples’ ed.), Poissons, 1836, p. 39. 
1836. Schinz, Abbildungen d- Fische, 1836, p. 49. 
1837. Bennett. Cat. Austr. Mus., 1837, p. 61 (Cudgegong, N.S.W.). 
(May, 1838, Sturt Collected Murray Cod in the Hume R., N.S.W.). 
1838. T. Mitchell, Three Exped. Int. E. Austr., cd. 1, i, 1838, p. 33 ; ed. 2, Jany. 1839, p. 95, pi. v, 
fig. 1. (Described and figured as Acerina {Gristes) peelii from Peel River, N. S. Wales). 
•1843. Richardson, Rept. 12th Meet, Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1842 (1843), p. 17. 
1844 Guerin-Meneville, Icon. Regne Anim., Poiss., 1844, p. 7, pi. v, fig. 2. 
1848. Richardson, Zool. Voy. “Erebus” and “Terror,” 1848, p. 118, pb liii, figs. 8—9. 
1848. Mitchell, Journ. Exped. Trot^. Austr., 1848, p. 366. (Maranoa R., N.S.W. [now = South 
Queensland]). 
1855. Bleeker, Verhand. Akad. Amsterd. ii, 1855, pp. 6 and 19. 
1857. Wilson, Trans. PhUos. Inst. Victoria, 1857, pp. 23-34 (introduction into Yarra R.). 
1859. Angas, Sydney Morning Herald, about May, 1859. — Macquaria peelii from Clarence R. 
1859. Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 1859, p. 251. 
1860. Angas, Ann. Rept. Austr. Mus., 1860, p. 5. 
1862. Bennett, Rept. Acclim. Soc. N.S.W., 1861 (1862), pp. 81-82, 
1864. Bennett, Third Ann. Rept. Acclim. Soc. N.S.W. , 1864, p. 81. 
1868. Ramel, Bull. Soc. Acclim. Paris, 1868, pp. 13-16. (Recommends acclimatization of the 
Murray Cod in Europe) — fide Zool. Record 1868 (r869), p. 144. 
1872. Kluiizinger, Archiv. Naturgeschichto xxxviii, 1, 1872, p. 19. (Murray River, Victoria; 
30 centimetres). 
1872. Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. Victoria, i, 1872, p. 54. 
1873. Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclim. Soc. Viet., ii, 1873, p, 39 (colour var.) and j). 150 (Oligorus 
mitchelli regarded as a new form from Murray River). [Note : The Murray Cod has 
been described several times as a “ new ” sx^ecies, but modern authorities do not 
consider that there is more than one, somewhat variable, species, with the following 
names as synonyms : Oryptes brisbafdi Lesson, Grystes niacquarienais C. and V., 
Acerhut (Gristes) peelii Mitchell, Oligorus mitchelli Castehiau, and Oligorus gibbiceps 
Macleay. The generic name Maccullochella was given to the Murray Cod because 
Gnjstes is a very different American fish and Oligorus is a preoccupied name. Since 
Oryptes brishanii, the earliest name, ’\\;as not acconqjanied by a description, i.e.y was a 
“ noinen nudum,” the correct scientific name of the Murray Cod, Trout Cod, Murray 
Perch, or w’hatever other popular name the fish may have, is Maccullochella 
tnacquarienms (Cuv. & Val.) — G.P.W.] 
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