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SOME FISHES OF THE ORDER AMPHT 
PRIONIFORMES. 
By Gilbert P. Whitley, Ichthyologist, Australian Museum, Sydney.* 
(Plates XXVII— XXVIII, Text-figures 1-4.) 
On my return journey to Sydney from a collecting trip to the Great Barrier 
Beef last October, arrangements Mere made whereby I might work at the 
Queensland Museum, Brisbane, for a fortnight, thus being enabled to examine a 
number of type specimens of fishes. I am indebted to Mr. H. A. Longman, Director 
of the Museum, and Air. T. C. Marshall for many courtesies and for facilities afforded. 
My studies on the Pomacentrid fishes and them allies, based on the describing 
and figuring done at the Queensland Museum and later elaborated and extended 
in the Australian Museum, form the subject of this paper, which includes descriptive 
and taxonomic notes of some Australian and South Pacific species with figures of 
typical or topotypical specimens, and concludes with a synonymic check-list of 
the Australian species with indications of their distribution. The range of species 
outside Australia is not dealt with, as confusion would result from the inclusion 
of extralimital localities, many of which ma}^ be based on doubtful records and 
identifications of other authors. Type-localities have, however, been quoted, and, 
except where noted otherwise, all references to literature have been checked with 
the original books and papers. 
Order AMPHIPRIONIFORMES mihi. 
Pomacentroidei Bleeker, Natuurk. Verh. Holl. Maatsch. Wetensch. (3) ii, 6, 1877, pp. 1-1 66. 
Pomacentriformes Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, July 1913, p. 131. 
Chromides Jordan, Olassif. Fishes 1923, p. 218. 
The fishes of the order Amphiprioniformes may easily be recognised from 
Bleeker’s succinct definition : — 4 4 Bony, acanthopterygian fishes with simple nostrils, 
the presence of a single nasal opening on each side sufficing to distinguish all the 
embers from the other acanthopterygians . ’ ’ 
The markedly serrated operculum and, in many species, the bold bands on the 
head and body, separate the Amphiprionidse from the Pomacentridse and then- 
allies. Barnard * 1 has used the term Amphiprionidse to include the Pomacentridse of 
authors, rightly pointing out that Amphiprion is an older generic name than 
Pornacentrus , but I propose to restrict the family Pomacentridse to Pomacentrus 
and its allies (Pomacentrinse, Parminse, and Glyphisodontinse in Australian waters). 
To have been consistent, some ichthyologists should have used the name 
Abudefdufidse. 
* By permission of the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 
1 Barnard, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xxi, 2, Oct. 1927, p. 728. The term Amphiprioninae was used 
by Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1859 (I860), p. 148. 
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