A new family of Australian fishes

The family, of which the following diagnosis is given, is intended to accommodate those forms of percesocoid fishes in which, among other characters which separate them from the Sphyrcb-nidcB and Atherinidcc, the first dorsal fin is composed of a single pungent and two or more flexible, unarticulated rays, and by the position of the anal fin, which is more elongated and advanced than in the typical Atherinids, and which on account of its anterior insertion pushes forward the position of the anal orifice and of the ventral fins so far that the latter become thoracic, and the family thus makes a distinct advance towards the moi'e typical Acanthopterygians.To