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A Mythical Fish.
For over half a century a fish named
Ompax spatuloides, described by Castel-
nan in 1879, figured on the list of' Queens-
land fishes. Gilbert Whitley, of the Aus-
tralian Museum, points out in a paper in
the American Naturalist that the species
is a myth. When one Staiger visited
Gayndah station practical jokers prepared
for him a fish made up of the head of one
fish, the body of another, and the tail of
an eel. It was served up at breakfast
with the remark that it was very rare.
Mr. Staiger made a careful sketch of the
cooked specimen before it was eaten. He
then sent the sketch to Castelnau.
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