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Report Brit. Assoc. XII Report 1842. Sir J. Richardson on the Ichthyology of New Zealand.

p 17 Upaneus porosus, Tasmania & rivers of New Zealand.

p 25 No Cyprinoid Fish in N. Zealand, though may be found. - The Leuciscus salmoneus, exists at Tanna & Port Essington.

Galaxias alepidotus in rivers of Dusky Bay, & another species in rivers of Tasmania

Report 1845. on the Ichthyology of the seas of China & Japan.

p. 192. In F. W. Fish agrees generically, but not in species with those of India - The F W. of C. of Good Hope & S. America are different from those of India & China - The ophiocephali are almost exclusively Asiatic, a genus of this Family being f. in C. of Good Hope, but not genera in America.

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p. 192 The Cyprinidae not altogether absent in Australia; the Rhynchona is f. in seas of Australia, for this Family not exclusively F. W.  & the Catastomi of N. America live indifferently in F. & salt water. "The anadromous Pescoids differ very slightly in form from others that are purely inhabitants of F. Water, & many examples of the same kind might be adduced from among marine Fish.* as in Ambassii & Apogon. "Most of the Coregoni pass their whole lives in inland waters, but many individuals carried down to the sea by floods, live & thrive in the brackish or salt-water of the estuaries." - & in brackish Lagoons near P. Essington there are fish considered purely marine.