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RECORDS OF fV.A. MUSEUM. 
Family BATR ACHOIDIDAE. 
Genus PSEUDOBATRACHUS, Castelnau ? 
? Pseudobatrachus, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr. (Viet. Offic. Rec. Philad. Exhib.)„ 
1875 , p. 24 ( P . striatus, sp. nov.) 
Batrachomoeus, Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 9, 1908, p. 46 ( B . minor, sp. nov. 
= 3 atrachus dubius, Shaw) . 
I follow Ogilby in regarding Pseudobatrachus and Batrachomoeus, 
as probably identical, but prefer to use the earlier name until they 
can be. shown to be distinct. 
PSEUDOBATRACHUS DUBIUS, Shaw. 
Lophius dubius, Shaw in White, Voy. N.S. Wales, 1790, p. 265 and plate. 
Batrachus dubius, Richardson, Voy. “ Erebus ” and “ Terror " Fishes, 1844. p. 16, 
pi X, figs. 1-2. Id., Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish, III, 1861, p. 169, and 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), XX, 1867, p. 61. Id., Castelnau, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, III, 1879, p. 353. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S. Wales, V. 1881, p. 572. Id., Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S. 
Wales, 1886, p. 31. 
Balrachoides dubius, Waite, Mem. N.S. Wales Nat. Club, 1904, p. 54. 
Thalassophryne coeca, de Vis, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S. Wales, IX, 1884, p. 547. 
Batrachomoeus coecus, Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 9, 1908, p. 49. 
Batrachomoeus minor, Ogilby, Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 9, p. 47. 
? Batrachus trispinosus, Kner, Reise “Novara,” Zool., I., 1865, p. 189 (not of 
Gunther). 
[? Not Batrachus dubius, Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 
I., 1877, p. 335. Id., Macleay, loc. cit., VIII, 1883, p. 267. 
Opsanus dubius, Jordan and Seale, Bull. U.S.Fish. Bur., XXV, 1906, p.416 
after Macleay. 
Pseudobatrachus striatus, Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr. (Viet. Offic. Rec. 
Phliad. Exhib.), 1875, p. 24. 
Batrachus striatus, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, V., 1881, 
P- 574-1 
The first notice of this fish consists of a few lines of descriptive 
matter, accompanied by a very defective figure. No definite 
locality is given for it, though judging from White’s narrative, it 
was almost certainly collected in, or very near, Port Jackson. Only 
one species of the Batrachoididae occurs near Sydney, where it is 
not uncommon, and is doubtless identical with that figured by 
Shaw. Ogilby 1 has placed B. dubius in the synonymy of 
Covyziclithys diemensis, Le Sueur, but I see no reason to accept this 
especially as that species is not so far known from New South 
Wales. 
Ogilby described specimens from Moreton Bay as Batrachomoeus 
minor, and while recognising their probable identity with the 
1 Ogilby, Ann. Qld, Mus., No. 9, 1908, p. 51. 
