Fishes of the family Pentacerotidae
- Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Pentacerotidae , Fishes -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15008 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019731 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 29
- Description: Family Pentacerotidae - Formerly known as the Histiopteridae, Follett and Dempster 1963 have shed new light on the nomenclature of the categories in this family. The earliest genus is Pentaceros C & V, 1829. This has long been held in abeyance on the grounds that it was preoccupied by Pentaceros Schulze, 1760 as well as by Pentaceros Schroeter, 1782 (both for Starfishes). Follett and Dempster have however shown that neither Pentaceros Schulze nor Pentaceros Schroeter is valid, and that Pentaceros C & V is therefore not invalidated. Further, Pentaceros C & V, 1829 was used in primary zoological literature by Gilchrist in 1902, and by Thompson in 1916, and hence cannot be relegated as a nomen oblitum. The oldest available family category name is the PENTACERATINA of Gunther, 1859 (which was corrected by Gill, 1893 to PENTACERATOINA). Bleeker, 1861 used the family name Pentacerotoidei, and as these antedate the name Histiopteridae of Jordan 1905, the family name becomes PENTACEROTIDAE. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1964
The clingfishes of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea
- Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date: 1964
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15017 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019796 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 30
- Description: In only few cases is anything definite known about the reproduction of Clingfishes. Probably all produce eggs, in some cases (see Eckloniaichthys below) this somewhat abnormally follows internal fertilization by copulation. In those cases that have been studied the eggs are laid in a single layer and are strongly adhesive to the surface of the rock, weed or shell on which they are deposited. The number of eggs varies from about a dozen to many hundreds. The female of the large South African Chorisochismus dentex has been observed to guard the eggs and to assist aeration by fanning. In some species there is marked sexual dimorphism in body shape and in dentition, while males may have a large genital papilla. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1964