Studies in Carangid fishes No.6: key to the western Indian Ocean species of the Genus Carangoides Bleeker, 1851, with a description of Carangoides Nitidus Smith

Title: Studies in Carangid fishes No.6: key to the western Indian Ocean species of the Genus Carangoides Bleeker, 1851, with a description of Carangoides Nitidus Smith
Creator: Smith, Margaret M
Date Issued: 1972
Date: 1972
Type: text
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:7124
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004450
Description: From introduction: Fishes in the family Carangidae commonly known as Jacks or Kingfishes are generally characterised by a silvery ovate body with s mall insignificant cycloid scales,a lateral line with curved anterior portion and a posterior straight portion bearing scules, a moderate mouth usually with feeble teeth, no dorsal and anal finlets, and a deeply forked caudal with a slender peduncle. A horizontally forwardly directed spine from the dorsal pterygiophore visible in front of the dorsal fin in shrunken or dried specimens, and the first two anal spines separate from the third and the rest of the fin are more pronounced in juvenile specimens.
Format: 13 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology (JLBSI)
Language: English
Rights: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)

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