Additions to the Fish Fauna of New Guinea.

Abstract

A checklist of the fish fauna of the New Guinea area by Munro (1958) included records of fishes collected during the years 1948-50 by "M.V. Fairwind". Many of the species collected by that vessel represented new records for various parts of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, both for the Territory as a whole as well as for the New Guinea area in general. An illustrated handbook of the marine and fresh water fishes of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, begun before the checklist was published, is now ready for publication. During the preparation of the manuscript of this handbook several collections of fishes were obtained from the Territory, most of these being, passed for identification to the C.S.l.R.O. Division of Fisheries and Oceanography by the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries. Amongst
these collections were species not previously recorded from Papua, the Territory of
Papua and New Guinea1 or the New Guinea area as a whole. In addition there
were species unknown to science. The purpose of this paper is to record these
species officially and to provide descriptions and illustrations of those new to science.
Opportunity is taken also to publish drawings .of certain species that have not been
illustrated before.