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
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