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RECORDS OF IV. A. MUSEUM. 
TEPHRAEOPS TEPHRAEOPS, Richardson. 
Crcnidens tephraeops, Richardson, Zool. '* Erebus ” and “Terror,” Fishes, 1 84 7, 
p. 69, pi. LXI, figs. 1-2. 
Tephraeops richardsonii, Giin'.her, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish, I., 1859, p. 432. Id., 
Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien., LXXX, i., 1879, 
p. 356. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, V., 
x88i, p. 410. 
Tephraeops tephraeops, Waite, Rec. Austr. Mas., VI., 1905, p. 63 
I count about 84 pores along the lateral line and 116 directly 
above it. Some notes on the teeth are given under Melambaphes. 
Fremantle. One specimen, 290 mm. long. 
MELAMBAPHES, Gunther. 
Melambaphes, Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), XI, 1863, p. 115 (M . nigroris, 
Gunther = Girella zebra. Rich.; not Glyphisodon nigroris, 
Cuv. and Val.) 
GirelliclUhys, Klunzinger, Arch. Naturg., XXXVIII, i., 1872, p. 22 (G. zebra. 
Rich.) 
Neolephroeops, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet., I., July, 1872, pp. 68, 248 (iV, 
zebra, Richardson). 
1 his genus differs from Tephraeops only iu having the whole 
operculum scaly, the body scales somewhat larger, and the anal fin 
with an even margin, the anterior rays not being produced beyond 
the general line of the fin. 
The teeth of the two are similar. Richardson described the 
vomer and palatines as toothless in Tephraeops , while Klunzinger 
found a group of small teeth on the vomer in Girellichthys. In my 
specimens of both genera, there are two or three minute, isolated, 
fixed teeth on the vomer, and a similar patch on the hinder end of 
each palatine bone ; besides these, there are numerous microscopic 
setiform, dermal teeth, which are quite soft, surrounding the 
stronger fixed ones. All these teeth are very difficult to find, and 
might be easily overlooked. 
MELAMBAPHES ZEBRA, Richardson 
Crcnidens zebra, Richardson, Zool., “ Erebus” and “Terror,” Fishes, 1847 d 70 
Tephraeops zebra , Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., I, 1859, p. 4x2. Id. Oei’lbv' 
Cat. Fish N.S. Wales, 1886, p. 18. 
Melambaphes nigroris, Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) XI, 1863, p. n 5 . (Not 
Glyphisodon nigroris, Cuvier and Valenciennes ) 
Girella zebra Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad Wiss. Wien , LIII, 1866, p. 430 pi VI 
fig 2. r -to . r- . 
Neolephroeops zebra, Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet I 1872 p 6q 
,. ... , „ Pr °c. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, V., 18S1, p.' 4 io. ' ’ ^ J 
Guellichthys zebra, Klunzinger, Arch. Naturg, XXXVIII i 1872 
Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LXXX, i. 1879^.356. ’’ 
Id. Macleay, 
p. 22, and 
