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C orvi na australis jpTHER, Rep.Voy. Challenger, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 6, 
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1880, p. 33/\®kry River, Tiaro, Queensland'!. 
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Sciaena australis OGILBY, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 6, Dee-<-19, 1918, 
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/ p. 75, pi* 22 (Brisbane River). 
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Corvina caflina DE VIS, ?roc. Linn. Soc. Slew South 'Tales, vol. 9, 4-eou. 
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29, 1885, p. 538y •/Brisbane River. 
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Depth 3%£§|p S L / Z i head 5 l / 5 to 3 1 /*, width 1 2 A to l 4 /*. Snout 
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3 to 3V 5 in head; eye 4 %l4V 3 , IV. in snout, 1 V 5 in interorbital; maxil- 
lary reaches Vg in ©y©» expan s’t&p 1 V 5 in eye, length 2 V 3 to 2 2 / 5 in head; 
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teeth above minutely triserial, oftter rov/ enlarged; mandible with outer row 
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of small curved teeth and inner row of 10 enlarged teeth; interorbital 3 2 / 3 
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to 3 4 /5 ; preopercle edge denticulate. Gill rakers 6 or 7-V 12 or 13, with s 
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rudiments, short, slender, longest / 3 of eye. 
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Scales 54 to 5o above along lateral line; 50 tubular scales (on 
figure)in lateral line to caudal base; 9 above, 16 to 18 below (on figure 8 
above anal origin to lateral line); soft dorsal, anal and caudal with small 
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scales basally« 
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D. XJ, 29 to 31, third spine 2 X /lO to 2 2 / 3 in head, first ray 2 4 /5 
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to 3; A. II, 7, spines short, weak, second 3 / 3 to 4, first ray 2 VqJ caudal 
1 / 3 , obtusely cuneat.■ 6 £•JtfigtSi ,.depth of caudal peduncle 3 2 / 3 ; pec- 
toral lVsJ ventral l 4 /„. 
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Silver gray above, shading through silver on sides to pearl white or 
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breast and belly. All upper la-teral scales densely powdered with dusky dots 
as 4 broad longitudinal darker gray bands, 2 above and 2 below lateral line. 
Dorsal, caudal and pectoral gray, spinous dorsal closely dotted Jgug&bsrbure 
ground color, becomes darker frbm base upward so outer third arf^ v 'ahs blackish 
Soft dorsal with dots much less crowded, pnly narrow marginfi^and suprabasal 
band appearing blackish. t a udal tips blackish. Smai^ark^pot in and behind 
pectoral axil. Anal and ventral white, ’***£**-276 mm. (Oeilby.) 
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