The identity of Scarus gibbus Ruppell, 1828 and of other parrotfishes of the family Callyodontidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean

Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968

Title: The identity of Scarus gibbus Ruppell, 1828 and of other parrotfishes of the family Callyodontidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean
Title: Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 16
Creator: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Date Issued: 1959
Date: 1959
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:14978
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018777
Identifier: Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 16
Description: Parrotfishes have long been one of the major problems of the taxonomist, largely as a result of classification based on preserved material. Workers such Bleeker, who handled fresh specimens, provided useful descriptions and at least passable illustrations of Parrotfishes. There has, in consequence, been a general tendency to use such names in preference to those of earlier workers, notably Lacepede and Valenciennes, most of whose descriptions, based on long dead specimens, not only lack accurate, or indeed any, illustration, but rarely contain critical diagnostic data. In consequence, the nomenclature has been in a state of utter chaos, and any worker privileged to travel and examine early type specimens incurs a good deal of responsibility, since the majority of other workers are usually not in a position to query his opinions about their identities.
Description: Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
Format: [ii], 265-266, [1] plate (col.), 267-268, [1] plate (col.), 269-276 [1] plate (col.), 277-278, [1] plate (col.), 280-282; ill; (some col.); 28 cm
Format: pdf
Format: Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 16
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: Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Rights: CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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