RARE FISH FOUND

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 7

RARE FISH FOUND

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WHANGAitEf, December. 20... A strange fish which liad been washed up alive on the Ocean Beach was found recently by Mr W. A. Given, a teacher at the Whangarei "High School. •■Fhe X fish was less than gin. inAlengtli and was relatively broad and/vei.’y .flat, and the markings yore brilliant' silver- ana brightj/aviure blufe. / * - / Tli© specimen was sent to the Auckland ''jhstitute ,: ‘nnd Museum foy ideiiijf; fication~ ceived a letter from Mr L. T. Griffin, assistant director, thanking him for sending,the sjpeennen. The lette’r states: —“The fish constitutes a new record to our New .Zealand fish fauha,'rtfiis' particular - species never having previously been .included in our list of fishes. It is; •‘ltjjojvn as the raft fish schedophilys rnaculatus, and, although very occasionally washed up on the New South Wales ? is considered rare there, It is or open ocean fish, and as far as we know rarely exceeds 4in, in ■ length?’',' ' '. v --- *

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