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A valued food fish all along the eastern ar.d southern Australian 
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A > coast lire. Distinguished from th«t»^i'«.ted Sillago maculate by its deeper 
the p,bsfecu 1 ar region. It agrees howeverJ 
in the dark basal pectoral blotch* J|r •] 3 7 '7 
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caudal peduncle, which n 
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The imperfectly described Sillago terrae-reginae Castelnau is ap¬ 
parently syno 
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Depth little ie'sl^fcaiijj^ head 3V3* W e ^/2 in bead, 2 in snout; 
interorbital 2 in snout; predppftcle entire; opercle ends in small spine. Scale 
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64 in lateral line. D^f I, 18, third "spire longest; A. II,i15; caudal very 
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slightly concave.^Mlvery, upper parts greenish 
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transverse dagjPhands, disappearing in dried specir^bri. Length 305 mm 
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E-ilo locality. Australian Museum. Two, 27S to 261mm. 
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S. K.M. -H^ew South Tales. D.G. Stead. Four, 245 to 366 mm. 
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Sillaginopodys, new subgenus 
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Type. - Sillago chondh#*|gfc^KR, 
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Diagnosis? 1 Ventral spine expandlfeas thick cartilaginous pad, joined 
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with first ventral ray. 
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with ||eference to the modified ventral fins. 
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Sjllago chondropus Bleeker 
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/* Sillago chondropus BLKKKER, Verb# Batav. Genootsch*, vd* ^2, 1649, p* 
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6bw 
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(.Batavia, - GONTBhR, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 246 
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