[PDF] Top 20 Observations on some Tasmanian fishes: Part XI

... beginning close to the inferior profile oI the snout at a point about two eye-diameters in advance of eye, a slender white line, narrowly margined above and below with black, runs back t[r] ... See full document

... Observations on Some Tasmanian Fishes: Part XXX 2 mm of the ventral margin; b there is no effective junction between the structures on the two sides of the fish; c no extension of the gr[r] ... See full document

... Dorsal with 20 spines, 15 rays; rays simple, differing little in flexibility from spines, the posterior set closer together than the anterior; originating very shortly behind head, at le[r] ... See full document

... Reddish brown punctulation more intense above than below lateral line, Bluish or II-VII, There are good grounds for this course: al a small or very small 1st spine is normal in purplIsh [r] ... See full document

... Six pairs of pores observed on head above mouth, disposed on each side thus: a below, just internad of, anterior nostril, about equidistant [rom nostril base and lip-border; b above ante[r] ... See full document

... Thus, in the South Australian examples the ground color is light green or yellow; the main markings are 'irregular dark lines and dots on the body, most prominent along the middle of the[r] ... See full document

... Hall 1900 gives an account of a burrowing Galaxias from Strahan, Tasmania, found in " decayed peat and sand, eight inches below the surface." The only description given of the fish, the [r] ... See full document

... Snout dark brown back to a line running from middle of lower border of orbit obliquely down to just behind lower lip; asubtriangular patch of brown bordering the light saddle on trunk, b[r] ... See full document

... The fin arises very graduahy, making precise determinat~on of its point of origin, lying about above posterior opercular border without lobe, difficult of determination; profile rising r[r] ... See full document

... Scaleless, not enclosed wholly or partly in bony scutes Skin with numerous small papillae; velvety Pelvice absent Pelvic present, with fewer than 5 rays Pelvics attached to body by sheet[r] ... See full document

... Anal: membrane dal'l< olive, with faint submarginal band of paler olive; nlYS rather Jighter,live or six of the posterior ones with narrow dark-brown cross bar at two-thirds of their len[r] ... See full document

... The specimen agTees with one of the two described by McCulloch in that the pectoral fails to attain to level of first anal spine reaching about to vent 1 and with one of these two specim[r] ... See full document

... Anal fin originating below 21st dorsal spine; terminating rather less than an eye-diameter in advance ,of level of base of median caudal rays; its base 1·5 in head, subequal to direct di[r] ... See full document

... About eight subvertical dark-brown bars, best developed anteriorly; first immediately behind pectoral base, second and third below second dorsal, fourth below interspace between second a[r] ... See full document

... Lateral aspect: head almost wholly chrome yellow, with two superior rows of dark brown dots: ground-color of most of lower half of trunk chrome yellow, of most of upper half greyish; chi[r] ... See full document

... From photograph of 1895 specimen Whitley, 1929 a, from outline figure given by Lord & Scott and from some other figures it differs principally i in higher insertion of pectoral, base of [r] ... See full document

... Dorsal treated as single fin: length to origin 1'5 in total head, subequal to depth at vent; first spine inserted very slightly behind level of hinder border of preoperculum, equidistant[r] ... See full document

... Direct length of third dorsal spine: total, exposed beyond sheath Second dorsal spine: length to origin; direct length, maximum width without membrane Second dorsal fin: length to origin[r] ... See full document

... Head: except for white markings noted below, whole preorbital head very dark, almost black, postorbital portion brown on lateral surface, darker on dorsal surface, whitish with some sulp[r] ... See full document

... General color darkish grey on back and flank down about to level of gill opening, with a less intense extension downward behind head to near ventral profile; elsewhere lighter; a putty-c[r] ... See full document