INTRODUCTION
Whitley (1935) described Assessor macneilli as a new genus and new species
of plesiopid fish from a single.specimen, 45 mm in standard length collected
at Hayman Island, Queensland in 1934. It has subsequently been taken by
us at various localities on the Great Barrier Reef from Lizard Island, north
of Cooktown, as far south as the Capricorn Group near the southern
extremity of the Barrier Reef. In addition, it was observed by the senior
author off Noumea, New Caledonia. During June and July 1972, the senior
author collected reef fishes at Pixie Reef, off Port Douglas, Queensland.
These included several specimens of A. macn