Additions to the fish fauna of the Maldives Islands

Adam, Shiham; Merrett, Nigel R; Anderson, R Charles; Randall, John E, 1924-; Kuiter, Rudie H

Title: Additions to the fish fauna of the Maldives Islands
Title: Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 67
Title: An annotated checklist of the deep demersal fishes of the Maldive Islands
Title: New records of fishes from the Maldive Islands, with notes on other species
Creator: Adam, Shiham
Creator: Merrett, Nigel R
Creator: Anderson, R Charles
Creator: Randall, John E, 1924-
Creator: Kuiter, Rudie H
Date: 1998
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:15030
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019905
Identifier: ISSN 0073-4381
Identifier: Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 67
Description: Part 1: We report here information on the occurrence of the deep demersal fish species known to date from the Maldivian Exclusive Economic Zone below a depth of 180 m. Collections of Maldivian deep demersal fishes are held by The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH); the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu; the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; the Marine Research Section, Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, Male, Republic of Maldives; the South African Museum, Cape Town; and the Zoological Survey of India, at the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Specimens from all of these institutions have been studied by the authors. In addition, the authors carried out sampling of the slope shark fishery during March - April 1996, which resulted in a significant new collection of shark material. A total of 99 deep demersal species are reported here which includes 36 new records for the Maldives. The six most speciose families are the Macrouridae (7 species), Congridae (5), Lutjanidae (5), Squalidae (4), Ogocephalidae (4) and Halosauridae (4).
Description: Part 2: Seventy-eight fish species are recorded from the Maldives for the first time. A further 30, which have been recorded in the literature but not included in previous reviews of Maldivian fishes, are listed. The total known shore and epipelagic fish fauna of the Maldives now stands at 1007 species. The total known demersal and epipelagic fish fauna is raised to 1090.
Description: Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
Format: [ii], 1-32, [iv]; ill; 28 cm
Format: pdf
Format: Online version of original print version of the Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Insitute of Ichthyology; No. 67
Publisher: J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University
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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