A new species of the triggerfish genus Xenobalistes matsuura (Tetradontiformes: Balistidae) from South Africa
- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Smith, Margaret Mary , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1983-01
- Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa , Fishes -- Classification , Balistidae -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69968 , vital:29603 , 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. 26 , Xenobalistes punctatus, the second species of the peculiar balistid genus Xenobalistes, is described from one specimen found on the beach at the mouth of the Van Stadens River, eastern Cape Province, South Africa. X. punctatus differs significantly from X. tumidipectoris Matsuura, 1981 in the number of body scale rows and spination of the anterolateral surface of the first dorsal-fin spine. The head and body of X. punctatus are dark brown, covered with numerous, small, evenly-spaced, silvery/white spots.
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- Date Issued: 1983-01
A review of the Labrid fishes of the genus Halichoeres of the Western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of six new species
- Authors: Randall, John E, 1924- , Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1982
- Subjects: Halichoeres -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15000 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019709 , ISBN 0-86810-071-4 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45
- Description: Fifteen species of the labrid fish genus Halichoeres occur in the western Indian Ocean (west of the southern tip of India): hortulanus (centiquadrus of many authors), scapularis, (ziczac is a synonym), marginatus (lamarii, ianthinus and virescens are synonyms), dussumieri (nigrescens of many authors; javanicus, dubius and dianthus are synonyms), pardaleocephalus (first western Indian Ocean record), hoevenii (vrolikii is a synonym), nebulosus (previously confused with margaritaceus which does not occur in the Indian Ocean), zeylonicus (bimaculatus of most authors is a synonym), lapillus, and six new species (stigmaticus, pelicieri, cosmetus, iridis, trispilus, and leucoxanthus). H. stigmaticus from the Persian Gulf is distinctive in having 28 lateral-line scales, 6 or 7 suborbital pores, and a U-shaped black mark on side above pectoral fin tips in males; H. pelicieri from Mauritius is a close relative of H. zeylonicus, differing chiefly in the colour of males (pelicieri with a broad blackish zone in dorsal fin and no large black spot on upper side); H. cosmetus, wide-ranging in the western Indian Ocean and a close relative of H. ornatissimus of the Pacific and Cocos-Keeling Islands, is alternately striped with bluish gray to green and salmon pink or yellow; H. iridis, also a species of the western Indian Ocean, has a dark brown body except for a red band along the back and an orange-yellow head with green bands; H. trispilus, known only from Mauritius and the Maldives, is pale pink with a diagonal row of three dark brown spots on upper caudal base and usually three black dots on back; H. leucoxanthus, known only from the Maldives, southwest Thailand and Java, is yellow dorsally and abruptly white on ventral half of body with a dark spot behind the eye, a black spot on upper caudal base, and three others in the dorsal fin. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1982
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 review of the South African Cheilodactylid fishes (Pisces: Perciformes), with descriptions of two new species
- Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Cheilodactylidae -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14998 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019707 , ISBN 0-868-0-027-7 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 42
- Description: Two new species, Cheilodactylus pixi and Chirodactylus jessicalenorum, are added to the three known South African representatives of the Cheilodactylidae. Palunolepis is considered a junior synonym of Chirodactylus. Keys to the five species are given. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1980
Hexatrygonidae, a new family of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Batoidea) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of Batoid fishes
- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Hexatrygonidae , Hexatrygon bickelli , Stingrays -- South Africa -- Classification , Rajiformes -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14996 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019701 , ISBN 0-86810-038-2 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 43
- Description: A new species of stingray, Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra and Smith, is described from a specimen washed up on a beach at Port Elizabeth on the south coast of South Africa. This new species differs from all other batoid fishes in having six gill arches and a peculiar hypertrophied snout that appears to be a well-developed electroreceptive organ, and in the configuration of its spiracles. Other characters that separate H. bickelli from previously known rays (myliobatiforms) are its small simple brain (other rays have a very large complex brain) and the absence of supraorbital crests on the cranium. In addition, all myliobatiforms are neritic (with none having been recorded below 200 m), and H. bickelli is.presumed to live in moderately deep water (400 to 1000 m). The classification of batoid fishes is reviewed, and Hexatrygon is placed in a new family and suborder of the Myliobatiformes. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1980
Fishes of the family Pseudochromidae (Perciformes) in the Western Indian Ocean (with plates 1-5); and a note on Anisochromis Kenya
- Authors: Lubbock, Roger , Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Pseudochromidae -- Indian Ocean , Marine fishes -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14987 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018955 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 35
- Description: An account is given of pseudochromid fishes from the western Indian Ocean. Seven species of Pseudochromis (four of which are new) and six species of Chlidichthys (three of which are new) are recorded and described, with details of ecology. Keys are provided. , This note lists specimens caught to date and increase in distribution of Anisochromis kenyae. Two colour illustrations demonstrate the sexual dichromatism. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1977
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
Studies in Carangid fishes no 6: key to western Indian Ocean species of the genus Carangoides Bleeker, 1851, with a desciption of Carangoides Nitidus Smith
- Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1972
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15053 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020235
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- Date Issued: 1972
J L B Smith: his life, work, bibliography and list of new species
- Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15051 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020233
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- Date Issued: 1969