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* Type Sillago punctatus /|§P?IER, orthotypic 
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Isosillago MACLEAY, Ftm . Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, 1879, p. 
\ ^ [Type Isosi|p ;o_ maculata MACLEAY, monoty 
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Body elongated, scarcely compressed, back and abdomen more or less 
“•raws. 
convex or rounded. Head erdi 
compressed, gradually narrowed for- 
ward. Eyes moderate, nearly median. Mouth even or lower shorter 
Scales very small, 170 in longitudinal row. First dodikl slopes down back¬ 
ward, margin straight or convex, spines 12 ; second dors® longer, with spine 
and 26 rays. Anal with slender spine and 22 rays. C^pal emarginate. Ven¬ 
tral with slender spine. 
Known by its very small scales and ungual rays of soft dorsal and 
anal. One species in Australia. 
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Sillaginodes punc-yfjA (Cuvier) 
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Silla go pun ctata CUVILp^Hist.-Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1829, d. 413, Port 
King George^. - QU0l§ and GAIMAHD, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 3, ~i&§4 
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p. 671, pi. 1, fig.Port King George). - GtJlv TH FR, Cat. Fish. Frit. 
Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 
},bson/s Bay; South Australia). - CATES- 
TRINI, Arch. Zool* Anat. Fisiol. d 
(Australia). - SCHMELTZ, Cat. Mus.. Godef^roy, vol. 4, 1869, p. 16 
. ? s,er. 2 , vol. 1 , 1869, p. 161 
(Australia). - CA 6 TtiLhAU, Proc. Zool. ^Sclimat* 8 oc. Victoria, vol. 1, 
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1872, p. 93 (Melbourne); London Intgsjftiat. Exhib. Cat., 1872, p. 132 
