1918.] The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. 
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Records of New or Rare Fish from New Zealand Waters. 
By J. Allan Thomson, M.A., D.Sc., F.G-.S., Director of the 
Dominion Museum. 
During the past two years the Dominion Museum has received a number 
of fish new to its collections, and in one case not previously recorded from 
the New Zealand area. The actual specimens have not yet been examined 
by an experienced investigator of the class, but photographs have been 
submitted to Mr. E. R. Waite, Director of the South Australian Museum, 
who has kindly expressed an opinion as to the species represented, with¬ 
out committing himself to a definite identification in the absence of the 
specimen. The purpose of this paper is not to treat of these species from 
a systematic point of view, but to record their occurrence, to give figures 
by which they may be recognized by those who have not access to a 
large library, and to supply any information available as to their habits 
and food value. The synonymy does not make any pretence to be a 
complete record of extra-limital occurrences. 
Oxynotus bruniensis (Ogilby). (Fig. 1.) 
(Spiny dogfish.) 
1890.• Centrina salviana Risso: Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 22, 
p. 276 (not of Risso). 
1893. Centrina bruniensis Ogilby, Rec. Austr. Mus., vol. 2, pp. 62-63 
(Tasmanian habitat). 
1904. Oxynotus bruniensis Hutton, Index Faunae Novae Zeal., p. 54. 
1907. Oxynotus bruniensis Waite, Rec. Cant. Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, 
p- 8 - 
1908. Oxynotus centrina Linne : Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 
vol. 2, p. 42 (not of Linne). 
1912. Oxynotus centrina Linne: Waite, Rec. Cant. Mus., vol. 1, No. 4, 
p. 316 (not of Linne). 
1914. Oxynotus bruniensis McCulloch, Commonwealth of Australia 
Fisheries, pp. 80-81, pi. xiii (southern Australian habitat). 
The only previous record of this fish in New Zealand is that contained 
in Hutton’s List of the New Zealand Fishes (1890), where it is stated that 
Fig. 1 .—Oxynotus bruniensis . 
a specimen is in the Canterbury Museum. The specimen here figured was 
•obtained by Messrs. Smith and Chant, of Wairau Bar, and was forwarded 
to the Dominion Museum by Mr. Ivon M. Barr, Harbourmaster, Wairau 
