- Title
- Fishes of the families Draconettidae and Callionymidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean
- Title
- Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 28
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Dragonets -- Classification
- Subject
- Dragonets -- Red Sea
- Subject
- Dragonets -- Indian Ocean
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Date
- 1963
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:15015
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019785
- Identifier
- Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 28
- Description
- Division Callionymiformes: Head usually broad, depressed. Body without scales but lateral line well defined, those of 2 sides generally connected over the occiput, sometimes also over peduncle. Mostly two dorsal fins, by exception one, the first of 1-4 flexible spines, the soft fin longer, anal similar to soft dorsal. Gillopenings usually reduced or even pore-like. Mouth small, fine Villiform teeth uniserial or in bands in each jaw, none on palate. One or more of the opercular bones armed with a spine. All small fishes, some in deep water, 2 families in our area, easily distinguished.
- Description
- Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 547-552, [i] plate, 553-556, [i] plate, 557-558 [i] plate, 559-564; ill; 28 cm
- Format
- Format
- Online version of original print version of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 28
- 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
- Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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