Genus Austrophycis Ogilby 
Austrophycis OGILBY, Proc, Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol, 
22, pt. 1, p. 90, April 28, 1897. (Type Austrophycis 
meg alops OGILBY, monotypic.j 
Body moderately long, strongly compressed. Head rather large, 
tumid. Snout short, rounded. Eye large, sufr&lateral. Mandibular 
barbel present. Mouth anterior, cleft wide, oblique, lower jaw included. 
Premaxillaries slightly protractile, form entire dental area of upper jaw? 
maxillary narrow, terminal end exposed and but little expanded. Upper jaw 
with narrow band of small cardiform teeth, 2 outer series enlarged and 
separated from inner portion, which triserial, by distinct interspace? 
lower teeth triserial, like upper. Vomer, palatines, pterygoids and 
tongue toothless. Nostrils together, in deep depression before eye. Opercle 
with feeble spine, not piercing skin and with border serrated. Gill opening 
wide, extends forward below mouth angle. Gill rakers few, distant, serrulated. 
Isthmus wide. Branchiostegals 6. Scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Dorsals 
2 ; first well developed, rays 10j second dorsal and ah&l long and low, latter 
longer and begins below middle of interdorsal space, separated from caudal by 
short interspace. Vertical fins largely enveloped in thick skin. Caudal 
t 
homocercal, narrow. Pectoral well developed, pointed, rays 25. Ventrals 
widely separated, inserted little behind isthmus, of 5 slender rays on 
narrow base. 
