Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1989 - Natural history |
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... body photophores . They represent not only the most northern record of this Subantarctic species , but also the first record of the species in southern African waters . The distribution of Subantarctic lanternfishes in the eastern South ...
... body photophores . They represent not only the most northern record of this Subantarctic species , but also the first record of the species in southern African waters . The distribution of Subantarctic lanternfishes in the eastern South ...
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... body photophores and since myctophid taxo- nomy is based mainly on photophore grouping and orientation , the identification of the specimens offered a challenge to an otherwise ' Gestalt ' process . The identi- fication , coupled mainly ...
... body photophores and since myctophid taxo- nomy is based mainly on photophore grouping and orientation , the identification of the specimens offered a challenge to an otherwise ' Gestalt ' process . The identi- fication , coupled mainly ...
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... Body photophores missing , specimens very badly skinned . Colour . Flesh pale , but head with torn patches of dark - brown skin ; iris chocolate - brown ; fin rays pigmented ; mouth and gill cavities dark . DISCUSSION The body form and ...
... Body photophores missing , specimens very badly skinned . Colour . Flesh pale , but head with torn patches of dark - brown skin ; iris chocolate - brown ; fin rays pigmented ; mouth and gill cavities dark . DISCUSSION The body form and ...
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abbreviated adipose fin anal fin ray Antarctic Intermediate Water bathypelagic Subantarctic species benthic bolini Andriashev braueri Cape Point Cape Town caudal peduncle comma depth Diaphus hudsoni Division of Sea dorsal and ventral dorsal fin eastern South Atlantic Electrona Gastropoda genus Gill-raker counts Gymnoscopelus Gymnoscopelus head length holotype Hulley Investigational Report Krefft Lampanyctus achirus lanternfishes large specimens length of upper limiting temperatures Lutjeharms mesopelagic myctophid Notoscopelus Open and solid outer base paper paratypes parentheses pectoral fin pelagic photophores piabilis posterior end PreA PreAd predorsal length premaxilla preventral length PreV Protomyctophum Republic of South Scatter-plots of Gymnoscopelus scientific name Scopelopsis Sea Fisheries semi-Subantarctic species SFRI SL Fig Smith snout and vertical solid square symbols South African Museum southern Benguela Region square symbols refer standard length SL Subpattern Synonymy Table tip of snout trawl upper base ventral fin vertical through base Visser Zoarcidae աա