Scombresox forsteri VAIENCIENNES t Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 18, 
p. 481, 1846 (type locality: New Zealand). — GtfNTHER, Cat. 
Pish. Brit. Mus., vol. 6, p. 258, 1866 (New Zealand). — 
HUTTON, Fishes New Zealand, p. 53, 187 . — CASTELNAU, Rec. 
London Intern. Exhib., pt. 7, no. 5, 1873, p. 16 (Victoria). 
— MACLEAY, Pi*oc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, pt. 2, 
p. 180, 1881 (Melbourne and Sydney). — OGILBY, Handbook of 
Sydney, p. 124, 1898. — JORDAN and SNYDER, Annot. Zool. Japon., 
vol. 3, p. 61, 1901 (reference). — STEAD, Fishes of Australia, 
p. 64, 1906, — MCCULLOCH, Biol. Res. Endeavour, p. 30, 1909-10 
(120 miles southwest of St. Francis Island, South Australia). 
Soomberesox farsteri MCCULLOCH, Austral. Mus. Mem., no. 5, pt. 1, 
p. 99, June 29, 1929 (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, 
Tasmania, New Zealand). 
Esox saurus (not WALBAUM) LICHTENSTEIN, Descript. Animal., p. 143, 
1844. 
Depth 9^-j head 3-l/3, width 5§. Snout 1-2/3 in head from snout 
tip; eye 9-4/5, 6 in snout, l-l/3 in interorbital; beak not completely 
closing basally, lower jaw little longer; maxillary reaches 7/8 in snout, 
length from snout tip 1-7/8 in head frcm snout tip; interorbital 8-l/5, low, 
broadly convex. Gill rakers 6-f40, upper or ceratobranchial rudimentary, 
others lanceolate or l:|r in eye. 
