Notes on the Tasmanian "Butter Fish" (Chilodactylus mulhalli), Macleay

Abstract

From among the specimens of fish that I have had the pleasure of contributing to the Tasmanian Museum within the last few months, and which have hitherto been unrepresented in that institution, I would direct brief attention on this occasion to the form known to the local fishermen by the name of the " Butter Fish." This species is evidently identical with the type taken near Port Jackson, and first described by Macleay in the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, p. 366, 1882, under the title of Chilodactylus mulhallii. The probable identity of that species with the Tasmanian Butter Fish has been already recognised by Mr. E. M. Johnston in the appendix to his Catalogue of Tasmanian Fishes, published in the same year.