- Title
- The fishes of the Okavango drainage system in Angola, South West Africa and Botswana: taxonomy and distribution
- Title
- Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 50
- Creator
- Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey)
- Creator
- Bruton, M N
- Creator
- Merron, G S
- Creator
- Van der Waal, C W
- Date Issued
- 1985
- Date
- 1985
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:15009
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019742
- Identifier
- ISSN 0073-4381
- Identifier
- Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 50
- Description
- The publication of a new phase of research on the fishes of the Okavango drainage starts with this account which gives the valid names and broad distribution patterns of all species known from the system. Eighty species and subspecies are recognised, of which at least two (Parakneria fortuita Penrith; Serranochromis gracilis Greenwood) are endemic. Notes on early collections, synonymy, taxonomic status and distribution are given. New synonyms are recognized under Aplocheilichthys hutereaui (A. schalleri), Aplocheilichthys johnstoni (Haplochilus carlislei) and Ctenopoma multispinis (Ctenopoma machadoi) respectively. Recently published taxonomic changes are incorporated including two genera (Mesobola and Afromastacembelus), a species Serranochromis (Sargochromis) gracilis and the re-allocated Amphilius uranoscopus. The Zambezian Hemichromis species is re-identified as H. elongatus. A number of unresolved taxonomic problems are pointed out and certain dubious records are excluded from the checklist. The Okavango has a diverse fish fauna with tropical affinities. Many fish species are poorly studied. Man-induced threats to the continued natural functioning of this complex and dynamic system, especially large-scale water abstraction, overgrazing, deforestation and biocide spraying to eliminate tsetse fly, make it imperative that studies on the nature and role of the fishes are continued.
- Description
- Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 1-21, [ii]; ill.; 28 cm
- Format
- Format
- Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 50
- Publisher
- J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- 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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