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The ''Ompax spatuloides'' was a hoax fish "discovered" in Australia in August, 1872. Said to be poisonous, it could be found on some lists of Australian fishes through the 1930s. The fish was a joke perpetrated by people at Gayndah station, Queensland, who prepared it from the body of a mullet, the tail of an eel and the head of a platypus or needlefish. They served it cooked for Carl Staiger, the director of the Brisbane Museum, and he forwarded a sketch and description of the fake to expert Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, who described the supposed "species" in 1879. ==References== * ''Australian Sporting Records'' (1998): 117. Bantam Books. * Castelnau, François Louis de la Porte, comte de (1879): On a New Ganoïd Fish from Queensland. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 3(1): 164-165, plate XIXa. * Whitley, Gilbert P. (1933): ''Ompax spatuloides'' Castelnau, a mythical Australian fish. ''Am. Nat.'' 67(713): 563-567. (First page image ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ompax spatuloides」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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