. Hemlrgunphus australensis SEALE, Occas. Pap. 
Bishop Mus., vol. 4, no. 1, p. 12, 1906 
(type locality: Tubuai, Austral Islands). 
Hemirhamphus australensis GT5NTHER, Journ. 
Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8, pt. 16, p. 356, 1909 
(copied). 
Depth 9 3/5 to 10, body robust, subcylindrical 
and sides not flattened; head 2 4/5 to 2 7/8, head from 
snout tip 4 1/5 to 4 3/5, width 2 1/3 to 2^ in its 
length, width 4 2/3 to 5 in total head length from mandible 
tip. Snout 2 2/3 to 2 3/4 in head from snout tip; eye 
3 2/3 to 3 3 / 4 , li to 1 1/3 in snout, 1 in interorbital, 
1 1/3 in postocular; maxillary reaches 3/4 to eye, length 
3 2/5 to 3 3/5 in head from snout tip; interorbital 
to 3 3 / 5 , low, slightly depressed. Gill rakers 11 -V 28, 
finely lanceolate, 7/8 of gill filaments, which 2 4/5 in 
eye. 
Scales 48 to 50 in axial lateral series from 
gill opening -to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 6 above 
lateral line to dorsal origin, 1 or 2 below; 34 or 35 
predorsal forward to occiput. Vertical fins all more 
or less finely scaled. Scales with single basal striae; 
circuli fine, all basal. 
