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Notes on the classification and distribution of the Indo-Pacific soapfish, Belonoperca Chabanaudi (Perciformes: Grammistidae)

  • Authors: Randall, John E, 1924- , Smith, Margaret Mary , Aida, Katsumi, 1944- , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1980-10
  • Subjects: Grammistidae , Perciformes
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69860 , vital:29589 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 21 , The former serranid fish Belonoperca chabanaudi Fowler & Bean, 1930 is redescribed and transferred to the Grammistidae. This species is wide-ranging in the tropical Indo-Pacific. Recent collections have provided a number of new records within this region, including South Africa, Japan and the Great Barrier Reef.
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  • Date Issued: 1980-10

A revision of the anthiine fish genus Sacura (Perciformes: Serranidae) with descriptions of two new species

Simochromis margaretae, a new species of cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika

  • Authors: Axelrod, G S (Glen S.) , Harrison, J A (James A.) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1978-12
  • Subjects: Simochromis margaretae , Simochromis -- Classification , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Tanganyika, Lake
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69825 , vital:29585 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 19 , A new cichlid species of the endemic Lake Tanganyikan genus Simochromis is described from four specimens from Kigoma Harbour, illustrated and compared with the other five species of the genus. The new species, S. margaretae, differs from the others in having a greater caudal peduncle depth, longer anal fin spines, and a narrower mouth. The new species further differs from its closest relative, S. marginatus, in having a greater interorbital width, greater postocular head portion, longer mouth, and shorter pectoral fin.
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  • Date Issued: 1978-12

Pavoclinus myae, a new species of clinid fish (Perciformes Blennoidei) from South Africa, with a note on the identity of P. graminis and P. laurentii, and a key to the known species of Pavoclinus

  • Authors: Christensen, M S (Makkel Skou) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1978-07
  • Subjects: Pavoclinus -- Identification , Pavoclinus myae -- Classification , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69814 , vital:29584 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 18 , Pavoclinus myae n.sp. is described from seven specimens collected off the eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The combination of a separate and high anterior section of the dorsal fin, a narrow caudal peduncle, vomerine teeth and fin counts separates P. myae from the eight other members of the genus. The validity of Pavoclinus graminis and P. laurentii was examined and confirmed. New distinguishing features were found, as characters previously used to differentiate these two species were unreliable.
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  • Date Issued: 1978-07

A new species of Tropheus (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika

  • Authors: Axelrod, G S (Glen S.) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1977-11
  • Subjects: Cichlids , Tropheus , Freshwater fishes -- Tanganyika, Lake
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69803 , vital:29581 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 17 , Tropheus polli, a sp. nov. (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, is described and compared with T. moorii Boulenger 1898, T. annectens Boulenger 1900, T. duboisi Marlier 1959, T. brichardi Nelissen & Thys 1975, and T. moorii kasabae Nelissen 1977. Included are detailed morphometric data with a figure and colour plate, a lower pharyngeal bone description with electron micrograph scans, and a type locality map.
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  • Date Issued: 1977-11

Notes on South African gobies possessing free upper pectoral fin rays (Pisces--Gobiidae)

  • Authors: Winterbottom, Richard, 1944- , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1976-04
  • Subjects: Bathygobius fuscus , Bathygobius niger , Gobius saldanha , Monishia william , Fishes -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69792 , vital:29580 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 16 , This paper arose out of difficulties in identifying collections of gobies whose upper pectoral fin rays are silklike and partially or predominantly free of membrane. Four such species have been recorded from South Africa, but there has been considerable confusion over their identification . Various unreported characters were found useful in separating the species. Certain problems exist in separating J.L.B. Smith's type specimens from the general collection. He invariably separated one specimen (labelled as "type") which was stored in a special type cupboard. This occurred whether or not a holotype was actually designated in the original description. Thus, particularly in his earlier works where no holotype was designated, these specimens (for new species based on more than one specimen) are nomenclatorally syntypes. I will refer to such "type" specimens as "syntype (= putative lectotype)". The remaining specimens (either the rest of the syntypic series or, later, the paratypes) were returned to the general collection. Owing to space limitations, all specimens of the same species were, where possible, kept in a single large jar. Paper tags were sewn on to the specimens, giving locality and date of collection. These tags have an unfortunate tendency to disintegrate. Subsequent separation of syntypes and paratypes is, therefore, subject to error. Since in a syntypic series I am referring to a "putative lectotype", the remainder of such series will be called "syntypes (= putative paralectotypes)".
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  • Date Issued: 1976-04

Systematics and distribution of eels of the Muraenesox group (Anguilliformes, Muraenesocidae): a preliminary report and key

  • Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Williamson, Gordon R , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1975-05
  • Subjects: Fishes -- Classification , Muraenesox -- Classification , Muraenesocidae -- Classification
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69746 , vital:29575 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 15 , A study of the eels which have been referred to Muraenesox McClelland clarifies taxonomic confusion in this group and shows it to contain three genera and seven species. M cinereus (Forsskål, 1775) occurs from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean northwards to Japan . M. bagio (Hamilton, 1822) has a wider distribution from South Africa throughout the Indo-west Pacific north to Japan and south to Sydney. Congresox Gill is revived for C. talabon (Cuvier, 1829) and C. talabonoides (Bleeker, 1853) both of which occur in the central Indo-west Pacific. Cynoponticus Costa is represented by C. savanna (Bancroft, 1831) in the West Atlantic, C. ferox Costa, 1845 in the East Atlantic and Mediterranean and C. coniceps (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) in the central East Pacific.
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  • Date Issued: 1975-05

Common and scientific names of the fishes of Southern Africa

  • Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary , Jackson, P B N (Peter Brian Neville) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1975-04
  • Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa -- Nomenclature , Fishes -- South Africa -- Nomenclature (Popular) , Fishes
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69731 , vital:29573 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 14 , This is in essence a checklist of the marine fishes occurring in the estuarine and coastal waters of southern Africa from the Kunene River in the west to Beira in the east. Deep sea fishes occurring below 200 metres or 100 fathoms are not included. The freshwater fishes from the Zambezi southwards will be published in Part 2. The scientific names, their spelling, authors and dates, have been carefully checked and brought into line with the most recent revisions available. However, the tremendous outpouring of scientific papers will make some scientific names obsolete even while this checklist is being printed. Also there will continue to be additions to the fauna and this, the first list to be published, must be regarded as a foundation on which subsequent lists can be based.
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  • Date Issued: 1975-04

A new Barbus species (Pisces, Cyprinidae) from the Olifants River System, Western Cape Province, South Africa

  • Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1974-08
  • Subjects: Barbus erubescens , Freshwater fishes -- South Africa -- Olifants River (Clanwilliam District, Cape of Good Hope)
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69715 , vital:29570 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 13 , A new species of small Barbus is described from the Olifants River System, western Cape Province, South Africa. The new species is restricted to a single tributary complex of the river system and appears closely related to B. calidus. Diagnostic features include pharyngeal teeth formulae, colour pattern, and dorsal and anal fin ray characteristics.
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  • Date Issued: 1974-08

Rediscovery of certain type specimens of fishes from the collections of the Government Marine Survey made by J.D.F. Gilchrist & the S.S. Pickle

  • Authors: Winterbottom, Richard, 1944- , Gilchrist, J D F (John Dow Fisher), 1866-1926 , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1974-05
  • Subjects: Fishes -- Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69684 , vital:29565 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 12 , The discovery in the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology of type material of 14 species of fishes from the collections made by the S.S. ‘Pickle’ (1920-1924) off the South African coast is reported. Brief redescriptions of, and new catalogue numbers for, the specimens are given.
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  • Date Issued: 1974-05

The fish Elops machnata in South Africa

  • Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1973-08
  • Subjects: Elopidae -- South Africa , Elops -- Indian Ocean , Fishes -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69652 , vital:29563 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 11 , Introduction: The status of the species of Elops present in the Indian Ocean along the southern part of Africa has been uncertain in recent times. Two names have been applied - Elops saurus Linnaeus, 1766 and Elops machnata (Forsskål, 1775) by numerous workers up to the present despite three revisions of Elops concluding that only one species, E. machnata, occurs in the western Indian Ocean (Regan, 1909; Bertin, 1944; Whitehead, 1962). These workers also demonstrated that Elops saurus is fotmd only in the western Atlantic Ocean and can be separated 100% of the time from E. machnata by vertebral counts (73-82 in E. saurus and 60-66 in E. machnata). Why, then, have workers persisted in using both names but not exclusively one or the other? There appear to be two reasons: 1. Some workers regard Elops to consist of one world-wide tropical species (in which case E. saurus is the oldest valid name). 2. The inadequate material upon which Regan, Bertin and Whitehead based their conclusions about the species of Elops. The first idea does not appear to be tenable with the evidence presented in the three species revisions and I regard it as erroneous. The second reason is real. We lack the basic information on geographic variation, if any, for the Indian Ocean population. Regan (1909) examined two specimens, Bertin (1944) an unknown number and Whitehead (1962) seven specimens. Whitehead (1965:231) indicates some doubt about the South African population and its status relative to the West African species E. senegalensis Regan, 1909. Furthermore, both Whitehead (1965) and Losse (1968) suggest that E. machnata and E. hawaiensis Regan, 1909 possibly may be subspecies of the same species, but indicate present data to be inadequate. This paper documents meristic and morphometric variation of 39 Elops mostly taken in South African estuaries as a first step toward understanding variation of the southern-most population in the Indian Ocean. South of Durban, South Africa, Elops machnata frequents the coastal waters only during the warmer months and is known to reach Mossel Bay. No species of Elops has been reported along the colder south western coast of southern Africa. The size range examined is large, 30 mm-900 mm SL (or to 6,9 kg), but does not include the maximum recorded size in South Africa of 13,7 kg. Losse's (1968) data for central East Africa are of nearly comparable size range and provide a useful comparison.
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  • Date Issued: 1973-08

Evolutionary significance of Holapogon, a new genus of cardinal fishes (Apogonidae), with a redescription of its type-species, Apogon maximus

  • Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1973-04
  • Subjects: Holapogon , Holapogon maximus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69640 , vital:29562 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 10 , A new genus is erected for Apogon maximus, a deep water cardinal fish occurring off the coast of southern Arabia in the Indian Ocean. Holapogon is a primitive genus near the ancestor which gave rise to all the living Apogoninae. The type-species, Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1887, is redescribed and aspects of its anatomy are investigated.
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  • Date Issued: 1973-04

A new species of the klipfish genus Springeratus (Clinidae) from the Indian Ocean

  • Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1972-11
  • Subjects: Klipfish , Springeratus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Geographical distribution , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69630 , vital:29561 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 9 , Klipfishes of the subfamily Clininae are among the dominant intertidal fishes in southern Africa. Except for a few tropical clinine members such as Clinus xanthosoma Bleeker, Clinus ekloniae McKay and Petraites roseus (Gunther), these diverse temperate forms seem to be replaced by members of the Blenniidae in the intertidal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Klipfishes have not been collected often in the tropical IndoPacific, but often enough to indicate a distribution for C. xanthosoma from Japan through the Philippines to Indonesia and Ceylon. In a recent publication Shen (1971 b) has brought our knowledge of C. xanthosoma up to date and described a new genus, Springeratus to house this species. The status of C. halei has been and still remains uncertain since Day described it in 1888. While collecting fishes at Mauritius, an undescribed intertidal clinid was obtained. This population of live-bearing klipfish contributes to our understanding of the zoogeography and possible relationships of Australian and southern African Clininae. Penrith (1969: r 14) hypothesized sea-weed transport of a clinid ancestor from Australia to South Africa. The Mauritian species favours her hypothesis as well as casting some doubt on the validity of Springeratus as a genus different from Clinus (sensu Penrith, 1969).
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  • Date Issued: 1972-11

The deepwater fish Scombrosphyraena oceanica from the Caribbean Sea: with comments on its possible relationships

An index and bibliography of eel larvae

  • Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1969-12
  • Subjects: Eels , Fishes -- Larvae , Fishes -- Bibliography , Leptocephalous larvae
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69608 , vital:29558 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 7 , A survey of ichthyological literature from 1758 until the end of 1968 reveals that information on eel larvae (leptocephali) is widely scattered and contained in at least 600 different papers. A synthesis of tlris information, essential for the correlation of larval eels with their adult species, is attempted here as a necessary adjunct to the further development of systematic studies on adults. About 450 forms of eel larvae have been described, of which nearly 100 have been at least tentatively identified; some 200 have been named as species of die genus Leptocephahis Grono- vius, 1763 (now a rejected name in Zoology), or of other larval genera; the remainder have not been named. Systematic and bibliographic information on these cel larvae is presented together with a geographic checklist and a list of myomere numbers in leptocephali. Reports of eel eggs and prelarvae are not included but these may be found in some of the papers listed. The leptocephalous larvae of other groups of fishes are excluded from this index, although references are made to relevant sources of information.
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  • Date Issued: 1969-12

The Eel genera Congrina and Coloconger off Southern Mozambique and their larval forms

  • Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1969-05
  • Subjects: Bathycongrus -- Mozambique , Bathycongrus -- Larvae , Coloconger , Coloconger -- Larvae , Eels -- Mozambique
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69597 , vital:29555 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 6 , Eight juvenile eels collected off southern Mozambique by the Galathea and identified as Congrina guttulata (Gunther, 1887) each have three well-defined, longitudinal rows of melanophores on the lateral body surface. The Dana collection of leptocephali contains many East African larvae with identical pigmentation. Their added close agreement in number of myomeres, fin-rays etc. allows such larvae to be firmly identified with Congrina Jordan & Hubbs, 1925, and specifically with C. guttulata. Leptocephalus trilineatus Castle, 1964 and L. geminus Castle, 1964, with similar pigmentation from the southwest Pacific, must therefore also belong to Congrina. Ten eels from southern Mozambique (Galathea Expedition and a commercial trawler) are identified with Coloconger scholesi Chan, 1967, otherwise known only from the South China Sea. A metamorphic lepto-cephalus of C. raniceps Alcock, 1889, from off southern India (Galathea) shows remnants of larval pigmentation, and permits the recognition for the first time of the larval characters of Coloconger.
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  • Date Issued: 1969-05

Eggs and early larvae of the congrid eel Gnathophis capensis off Southern Africa

  • Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1969-03
  • Subjects: Eels , Fishes -- Larvae , Gnathophis capensis
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69563 , vital:29549 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 5 , Two hauls made in late January, 1930 off southern Africa by the Danish Dana Expedition contained developing eggs and very young larvae of the congrid eel Gnathophis capensis (Kaup, 1856). Collection of these specimens confirms the suggestion made from previous larval studies that spawning, development, and at least early larval growth of this species occurs in late summer in this area.
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  • Date Issued: 1969-03
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