- Title
- Serioline fishes (yellowtails: amberjacks) from the Western Indian Ocean
- Title
- Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 15
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Seriola
- Subject
- Yellowtail
- Date Issued
- 1959
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14977
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018776
- Identifier
- Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 15
- Description
- Among the most esteemed by the big game angler, these fishes are of world-wide distribution, and the various species (commonly named “Yellowtail” in South Africa), are all built on much the same plan, the caudal lunate, the dorsal and anal fins long and mostly low. All are powerful swimmers, presumably able to cover vast distances, and within each genus and subgenus the different species do not differ widely from one another. As a result, there has been a general tendency for systematists to identify species, even in remote parts, with those already known. The literature reveals astonishingly few detailed original descriptions of these fishes, and there has been a regrettable tendency merely to reproduce early illustrations that are technically good, rather than to provide originals of actual specimens, which has caused widespread confusion. Two genera are treated here, viz. Seriola Cuvier, 1817 and the monotypic Seriolina Wakiya, 1924; Zonichthys Swainson, 1839 is regarded as Atlantic only, while the pelagic monotypic Naucrates Rafinesque, 1810 is so well known as scarcely to need inclusion here.
- Description
- Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 255-261; ill; 28 cm
- Format
- Format
- Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 15
- Contributor
- Smith, Margaret Mary (Illustrator)
- Publisher
- Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ichthyological bulletin (Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology)
- Rights
- Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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