Abstract

[No abstract is given for this work, it begins as follows] Family Dasyatidae. To the Parliamentary Report of the Marine Department of Queensland for 1902–3, the late Dr. Jas. R. Tosh contributed an appendix which is of importance to students of our marine biology. It is entitled "Notes on the Habits, Development, Etc., of The Common Food Fishes of Moreton Bay," and is illustrated by twelve plates. These depict stingrays, mullets, and various other fishes, and show the development of the eggs of the mullet, bream, blackfish (Girella), and others. All the species have been included in the Queensland List, but Tosh left a few without specific names, thus: Dasyatis sp. ... Heteroscarus sp. ... and Neopercis sp. ... The stingray is evidently Dasyatis fluviorum Ogilby, though this species is not a true Dasyatisas there is a fold, not a keel, below the tail, and would he better regarded as the orthotype of a new genus.

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Whitley, 1933, Rec. Aust. Mus. 19(1): 60–112
Author
Gilbert P. Whitley
Year
1933
Title
Studies in ichthyology. No. 7
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
19
Issue
1
Start Page
60
End Page
112
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.19.1933.691
Language
en
Plates
plates xi–xv
Date Published
02 August 1933
Cover Date
02 August 1933
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Digitized
02 April 2009
Reference Number
691
EndNote
691.enw
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