EDIBLE FISHES OF QUEENSLAND.— OGILBY. 
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gill-fringes. Vent -well forward, midway between the origin of the ventrals 
and the 2nd free anal spine. 
Back and upper sides dark blue, with six broad faint cross-bands, which 
disappear with age, shading down the lower sides to the silver of the throat 
and abdomen; cranio-nuchal ridge black; a dilfused brown spot behind the eye; 
snout, edge of mandible, and chin violet. Dorsal filament and inner rays of 
ventrals black, the outer ray and the tip white, {aurochs, the European Bison; 
in allusion to its bluft* head.) 
Described from two specimens, measuring respectively 157 and 167 millim., 
of which the former was taken off Pine Peak, .M.Q.. on August 1, 1910, at a depth 
of 25 fath., and the latter at one or other of tlie localities referred to below on 
the coasts of South and JMiddle Q;ueensland. Two other exaTiipIes are in the 
Queensland iMuseum (O.C.) without locality and in vsuch bad condition as to 
be valueless for descriptive ]niri^oses; they were labelled Caranx arinatiis. 
Reg. No. of type in the Queeaisland iMuseum — I. 14/2218. 
liange : — Coasts of South and Middle Queensland, apparently widely 
distributed but nowhere abundant, at least during the winter months. The 
localities noted during the investigations carried out on our coast by the F.I.S. 
Endeavour ’’ were — Ilerve^^ and Bustard Bays, S.Q., 1 example each; Pine 
Peak and Edgecumbe Bay, i\r.Q., 4 and 10 examples respectively. All these 
fishes were taken on a sandy or muddy bottom at a depth varying from 15 to 
25 fathoms. It will be remarked from the above that the number of specimens 
increased steadily from south to north, and we may, therefore,, fairly assume 
that it is an inhabitant of the entire Eastern Coast of Queensland, more 
especially the northern section. 
Dimensions : — Attains a length of at least 175 millim. 
Echu/?*.?:— T his species has been confounded with the Caranx armahis 
of Gunther \s Catalogue, but that author’s description is unreliable, having 
manifestly been dravm up from two or more species. AVe may, how'ever, point 
out that in the Queensland spedes the shapt' of the lateral line a. 7 id the number and 
strength of its scutes are very different from those of the western fish; the snout 
also is much shorter than the eye in our fish and the maxillary correspondingly 
extends further backward, while in the eighteen examples, which we have seen, 
none of the middle dorsal rays were produced, a character which, according to 
Gunther, effectually separates it from C. airopus; Day’s C. airopus does not, how- 
ever, seem to be the same as Giinther’s, but ours may be at once distinguLshed by 
the shorter ventrals and narrower maxilhny. It is also different fiom C. armatiis 
Day, with an Indian example of which McCulloch has kindly compared it, and 
writes the profile is different and the lateral line differently curved,” Re- 
ferring to Caranx aUissirnus Jordan and Seale-^ he Avrites — Also very near 
C. altissimus, but it has a narrower preorbital and the lateral is different.” 
Proc. Davenport Acad., x, 1905, p. 7, pi. iii. 
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