1541 
Harpadon 
translucens Kent 
Harpodon translucens KENT, Proc. Royal Soc, Queensland, 
mm • • * 
vol. 6, No. 5, 1889, pp. 222, 254, pi. 13, fig. 2. 
Ord River, Cambridge Gulf, North Australia. 
Depth 7; head 4 l/4 (4 1/2 description). Snout 8 3/4 
in head from snout tip; eye 9, 1 1/8 in snout; premaxillary 
extends 5 1/2 eye diameters behind eye, length 5 4/5 in head 
from snout tip; teeth slender, recurved, uneven, minutely 
uncinate, lower longest, some at mandibular symphysis on 
outer surface project forward. 
Scales minute, cycloid, only on hind part of body. 
* 
D. I, 15 (14 in description), second ray 1 1/8 in total 
head length; adipose fin 2 3/4; A. 13 (15 in description), 
first ray 2 4/5; caudal 1, widely forked (with central hind 
lobe behind in description); least depth of caudal peduncle 
4 1/4; pectoral 1 l/3; ventral 1 + 1/8, rays 9. 
Transparent, with minute black speckling along dorsal, 
surface. Iris peacock blue. Length 125 mm. (Kent.) 
North Australia 
