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Strongylura maoleayana (Ogilby) 
Be lone niaoleayana OGILBY, Cat. Fishes New South Wales, p. 53, 
1886 (on Macleay); Edible Fishes of New South Wales, p. 170, 
pi. 41, 1893. 
Tylosurus maoleayana STEAD, Fishes of Australia, p. 64, 1906 
(New South Wales). — ROUGHLEY, Fishes of Australia, p. 35, 
1916 (New South Wales). 
Tylosurus macleayanus MCCULLOCH, Austral. Mus. Mem.,no. 5, pt. 1, 
pi. 100, June 29, 1929 (compiled). 
Belone gracilis (not LOWE 1839, SCHLEGEL 1846) MACLEAY, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. New South Y/ales, vol. 6, pt. 2, p. 243, Sept. 12, 1881 
(type locality: Port Jackson). 
Tylosurus impotens OGILBY, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, 
p. 89, 1908 (type locality: Moreton Bay, Queensland). 
Depth 16-f j head 3-2/5. Snout 1-3/6 in head from snout tip; 
eye H-l/3, 7-J- in snout; maxillary reaches 2/3 of eye; jaws with outer 
band of fine teeth and inner series of moderately stout conic ones; 
shallow median groove from occiput to upper jaw; occiput moderately 
striated, striae diverging from pair of lateral centers; posterior half 
of occiput deeply grooved laterally. 
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Scales small, thin, deciduous; cheeks and fhont half of cephalic 
groove scaly. 
D. 20 or 21, first branched ray 4-l/5 in total head length; A. 
19 to 21, first branched ray 3—l/3; caudal 3—7/8, rounded behind; caudal 
peduncle deep as wide, least depth little less than eye, keel obsolete 
or absent; pectoral 3-l/5, greater than postorbital; ventral 5-1/Q in total 
head, reaches 2-2/5 to anal. 
