AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Whitley, Gilbert P., 1934. Studies in ichthyology. No. 8. Records of the Australian Museum 19(2): 153–163. [26 March 1934]. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.19.1934.695 ISSN 0067-1975 Published by the Australian Museum, Sydney nature culture discover Australian Museum science is freely accessible online at http://publications.australianmuseum.net.au 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia STUDIES IN ICHTHYOLOGY. No. 8. ¥ By GILBERT P. WHITLEY, Ichthyologist, The Australian Mnseum,Museum, Sydney. (Figures(FigUN1S 1-3.) Family SCYLI01UIlNIDl£.SOYLXORBINIDAl:. Genus AulohalaelllfusAulohala.elUru$ (Fowler, 1934). Orthotype.-Catulus labiosus Waite. Nasal valves separated from each other and from the mouth. No cirrus. Upper labial fold long; lower labial fold extending along lower jaw nearly to symphysis. First dorsal fin'fin situated behind the level of the ventrals. Anal fin opposite the second dorsal; length of base of anal more than its distance from the caudal. No enlarged denticles above caUdalcaudal fin and no dorsal tubercles. Body with scattered dark spots and a few light ones; cross-bands obscure. Aulohalaelurus labiosus (W aite). :FigureFigure 1. AulohalaelurU8Aulohalaeluruslabiasus labio8118 (Waite). Holotype. G. P. Whitley'Vhitley del.deL Catulus labiosus Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., vi, 2, S8pt.Sf)pt. 15, 1905, p. 57, fig. 23. Fremantle, Western Australia. HolotypeinRolotype in Western Australian MuseUm.Museum. Scyliorhinus maculatus Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) i, 1908,1908,.p. .p. 462. Ref. to Waite only, as Gunther's record is probablypro bably based on an Atelomycterus. Not Squalus maculatus Bloch and Schneider 1801, preocc. by Bonaterre,Bonaterre, 1788. Scyliorhinus maculatum McCulloch, Zool. Res. Endeavour, i, 1911, p. 6. Scyliorhinus labiosus McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem., v, 1929, p. 8. W.A. rec. only. Mr. L. Glauert, Curator of the Western Australian Museum, kindly permitted me to draw the accompanying figure of the unique holotype of this species when I was in Perth during holidays. As Waite illustrated only the mouth-parts, not the *• For No. 7, see Records of The Australian Museum, vo!.vol. xix, No. 1.1, 1933,1933. p. 60. 154l54 RECORDSREOORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM.IIIUSEUIII. whole shark, authors have apparently confused this species with another, perhaps Atelomycterus marmoratus,mal'mOratu8, an Australian specimen of which I have previously illustrated1l • I have been unable to identify the briefly characterized Squalus cuvier2,, which seems again distinct. Aulohalaelurus labiosus is thus authentically know:nknown only from south-western Australia, as the Queensland record of " Scyllium maculatum"macttlatum" from" Bramble Bay" evidently applies to some other Scyliorhinid shark. 3 Family OPHICHTHYIDlE. lVIalvoliophis,Malvoliophis, gen. novo Orthotype, BascanichthysBctscanichthys hemizona Ogilby4=Ogilby4= Malvoliophis pinguispingttis (Giinther). Head conical; body elongate, somewhat compressed. Spaced acute teeth occur uniserially on jaws and vomer; tliethe anterior caninescanincs of upper jaw lie outside mouth. Nostrils in the form of a perforated cone or tapering tube, not bifid. Dorsal fin commencing over head; anal behind vent, which is in anterior blfhalf of fish. Tip of tail free of fins. Pectorals well developed, much longer than snout, and longer than broad. Lateral line curving over opercular region. Head spotted; body with twenty or more bands, often as'ymmetricallyasymmetrically disposed, which do not extend over thethe belly. '. Generic definition drawn up from New South Wales specimens in the Australian Museum from the following localities :-Newcastle;:~Newcastle; Rose Bay and Sow and Pigs Reef, Port Jackson;Jackson; . Lady Robinson's Beach and La Perouse, Botany Bay; Bannister Point near Milton; and Bermagui. The species has been recorded from Lord Howe Island by Waite, and Ogilby's name is evidently a synonym of Ophichthys pinguis Giinther5 from the Solomons. This eel cannot .bebe retamedinretained in Bascanichthys6 as that.that American genus has atrophied pectoral fins, bifid nostrils,andnostrils, and other difierentiatingdifferentiating characters~characters. , Family MURAENIDlE. Notorabula, gen. novo Orthotype, Muraena callorhyncha Giinther7 = Notorabula callorhyncha. HeadRead 3i in trunk. Teeth acute; anterior teeth biserial. Eye small. Posterior nostrils not tubular. Coloration not spotted; snout ornamented with brown bands. Dorsal fin commencing behind gill-opening. OgilbyS placed Giinther's species in the genus Rabula without comment, but it cannot remain in that genus because of the characters noted above. Rabula was 1 Wnitley,-Rec.Whitley.-Rec. AURtr. Mus., xviii, 1932, p. 322, pI. xxxviii, fig. 1: Port Darwin. 'Peron'Feron and Lesueur.-Journ.Legueur.-Journ. Acad. Sci.SeL Philad.;Philad., ii, Nov.,1822,Nov., 1822, p. 351: N.W. New Holland,Holland. •3 Ogilby.--Mem.Og,ilby.--1I1em. Qld. MuMm., •. , iii,Hi, 1915, p. 131 and v., 1916, pp. 77 and 93; MeCulloch and,aud Whitley, ibid., viii, ,. 1928, p. 128, as HalaeluTUsHalaelurus labiosus.labio8u ••.. , •, Ogilby.-Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, xxii, 2, Octoher,October, 25, 1897, p. 248:24.8: Port JacksOll.Jackson. •, Giinther.-Ann.GiintheI.-Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) x, Dec. 1, 1872, p. 425;.425; Cruis.eCruise Cura~oaCura,oa \Brenchley),,Brenchley), 1873, p. 43;43, pI. xxxv. SdlomonSolomon Is. •6 Jordan and Davis.-Rept. UD.S. .s. Fish. Comm., viii, 1888 (1892), pp. 613 and 621. Orthotype, OaeculaCaecula bascanium JJordan, llrdan, 1884, from Florida. 7 Giinther.-,Cat.Giinther.-.Cat. Fish. Brit. MuMug.,•. , viii, 1870, p. 122: Fremantle, Western Australia.Aust-ralia. 'Ogilby.-Proc.'Ogilby.-Proe. Roy. Soc. Qld., xx, Jan. 1907, p. 11. ICHTHYOLOGY No. 8-WIDTLEY.8-WHITLEY. 155 introduced by Jordan and Davis9 for species with the dorsal fin inserted behind the head, the genotype being Muraena aquae-dulcisaq~tae-dulcis Cope, 1872, from Rio Grande,Grande. Costa Rica, which was only provisionally identified by Jordan and Davis from their material. The American eel evidently has the dorsal much more posteriorly situated than the Australian and differs also in proportions, dentition, and coloration. Family CARANGIDlE. Genus Olistus Cuvier,euvier, 1829. 1 Atropus Bosc, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., ed. 2, iii, Sept. 1816, p. 64. Id. Cloquet, Dict. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), iii, "1816"" 1816 " = Jan. 1817, Supplement, p. 82. Id. Schinz, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), 1822, p. 521. Haplotype, Brama atropus Bloch and SchneidGr,Schneidcor, 1801 = Atropus ciliaris Cloquet, 1817,1817, from Tranquebar. Name preoccupied by Atropos Oken, 1815, Lepidoptera. Olistus Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, ii, April 1829, p. 209. Genus caelebs. Logotype, OlistU8Olistus malabaricus Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1833. Olisthus Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool., 1846, Index Univ., p. 257. Emend.Emcild. pro Olistus. In the ichthyological portion of the first edition ofhi~of his Regne Animal, published in December 1816 (though the title-page is dated 1817), Cuvier gave many vernacular generic names which were not latinized until later authors or editors provided valid scientific names for them. Usually, Oken has been regarded as having given Latin equivalents for them in the Isis, 1817, but Mr. T. Iredale, who has seen Oken's work, informs me that his names are all nomina nuda, some being still retained in a vernacular form.10form.l0 Apparently Cuvier's manuscripts had been available to his colleagues, as many of his genera were established by the authors of articles on fishes in the French Dictionaries of Natural History before the Regne Animal appeared. The following list of the relevant literatureliterature of the period may assist in tracing the first valid use of Cuvier's names. I am unable to consult some of the works of Blainville, Geoffroy de St. Hilaire, Proce, and Desmarest, in which further latinizations may occur. Sept. 1816 onwards. BoseBoso and others, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Oct. 1816 onwards. CLOQUET,OLOQUET, Dict.Diet. Sci.Sei. Nat. (ed. Levrault).Levrau1t). Dee.Dec. 1816. CUVIER,OUVIER, Regne Animal, ed. 1,I, vol. ii. 1820. GOLDFUSS, Handb. Zool.Zoo!. 1822. SeIDNz,SOHINZ, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), ii. May 1822 onwards. BORY, Diet. ClassiqueOlassique Hist. Nat. June 1822. FLEM1NG,FLEMING, Philosophy of Zoology. 1824-1825. QUOY.QUOY AND GA1MARD,GAIMARD, Voy. autour Monde. • • Uranie et P~ysicienne.Physicienne. 1826. '&1S80,RISSO, Hist. Nat. Europe Meridionale, Hi.iii. Oct. 1828 onwards. CUVIEROUVIER AND VALENOIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. April 1829. CUV1ER,OUVIER, Regne Animal, ed. 2, ii. 1832. VOIGT, Das Thierreich (Cuvier)(Ouvier) Hii and later editions. D, Jordan and Davi.,.-·Rept.Davis.-·Rept. U.S. Corn. Fish., 188818R8 (1892), p. 589. 10 Gill.-Proc. n.s.U.S. Kat.Nat. Mns.,Mus., xxvi, 1903, pp. 965-967, discusses Oken'.Oken's names IIn~k>I:\i.III11!11111HflU confirms Mr. Iredale',Iredale'''i opinion. 156 REOORDSRECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIANA USTRALIAN MUSEUM. Olistus hedlandensis.hedlandensis, Sp. novo Figure 2. Olist,ltsOli8t1~8 hedlandensis, sp. novo Holotype. A. R. McCulloch dd.de I. D.viiij20; A.iiji, 16; about 17 scutes on l.lat. Orbit (13mm.) subequal to snout (14) and about two-thirds postorbital portion of head (21'5). Head (48) 3-3,3'3, seventh dorsal ray (60) 2'6,2·6, depth of body (86) 1·8 in standard length (160). Form deep, upper profile gibbous above the eyes. Adipose eyelids well developed. Thirteen gill-rakers, up to 8 mm. long, on lower limb of first branchial arch. Maxillary reaching to below middle of eye. A series of fine teeth