Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum, Volume 21, Part 2South African Museum, 1927 - Natural history |
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Page 425
... rays , or variously reduced ; thoracic , subthoracic , or jugular in position . Dorsal and anal fins normally with spines . Operculum well developed , and gill - openings usually large . This division is by far the largest and it is ...
... rays , or variously reduced ; thoracic , subthoracic , or jugular in position . Dorsal and anal fins normally with spines . Operculum well developed , and gill - openings usually large . This division is by far the largest and it is ...
Page 427
... rays branched . Body compressed . Ventrals not wide apart . Gill - openings not reduced . ( Perci- formes ) . • key ... rays †† Two to four ventral rays ** Dorsal and anal fins in a sheath Labridae . Scaridae . Serranidae . Plesiopidae ...
... rays branched . Body compressed . Ventrals not wide apart . Gill - openings not reduced . ( Perci- formes ) . • key ... rays †† Two to four ventral rays ** Dorsal and anal fins in a sheath Labridae . Scaridae . Serranidae . Plesiopidae ...
Page 430
... rays . No air - bladder . Usually only 1 pyloric caecum . Lateral line single . , A small family , about whose systematic position there has been much discussion , consisting of 5 genera and about twice as many species from the ...
... rays . No air - bladder . Usually only 1 pyloric caecum . Lateral line single . , A small family , about whose systematic position there has been much discussion , consisting of 5 genera and about twice as many species from the ...
Page 438
... ray longest , twice the eye - diameter . A II 8 , opposite soft dorsal , the 2 spines feeble , short , 1st about half ... rays . Pyloric caeca 10. ( Plate XVIII , fig . 6. ) Length . - 330 mm . Colour . - Grey below , slaty - blue above ...
... ray longest , twice the eye - diameter . A II 8 , opposite soft dorsal , the 2 spines feeble , short , 1st about half ... rays . Pyloric caeca 10. ( Plate XVIII , fig . 6. ) Length . - 330 mm . Colour . - Grey below , slaty - blue above ...
Page 439
... rays simple . Ventrals jugular , close together , of 1 spine and 5 rays . Air - bladder absent . Pyloric caeca few . Lateral line single . This family contains a single genus represented in the shallower waters of the Eastern Atlantic ...
... rays simple . Ventrals jugular , close together , of 1 spine and 5 rays . Air - bladder absent . Pyloric caeca few . Lateral line single . This family contains a single genus represented in the shallower waters of the Eastern Atlantic ...
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adult Agulhas Bank anal fins anterior arch arch band Biol blackish Bleeker Blkr Bloch Brit canines caudal fin caudal peduncle Caudal rounded cheek Colour compressed ctenoid Cuvier and Valenciennes dark Distribution.-Indo-Pacific dorsal and anal dorsal fin dorsal rays dorsal spines Durban Mus elongate equal to length False Bay fathoms Fische Fish Fowler genus Gilchrist and Thompson Gill Gill-membranes Gill-rakers Günther hind margin Hist Ichth Ichthyol interorbital width Lacépède Lateral line length of body length of head Length.-Up less Locality.-Natal coast lower jaw lxxvii margin of eye Maxilla reaching moderate Natal nostril opercle palatines Philad Poiss posterior preopercle preorbital Proc Profile Pyloric caeca Regan Rüppell Scales scaly serrate silvery slightly snout soft dorsal South African Museum South African species specimen spine longest spinous dorsal synonymy teeth tentacle U.S. Nat upper Ventrals vertical villiform vomer yellowish young Zool