Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 21The Museum, 1927 - Natual history |
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... Cape and Natal Fishes compiled by Gilchrist and Thompson , where a full bibliography of every species will be found , although the present writer does not agree in every case with the synonymy there given . A bibliography of the most ...
... Cape and Natal Fishes compiled by Gilchrist and Thompson , where a full bibliography of every species will be found , although the present writer does not agree in every case with the synonymy there given . A bibliography of the most ...
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... Cape Point , Cape Hangklip , and Saldanha Bay , 95-250 fathoms . Type in the British Museum . The naturally deposited eggs of this species are unknown , but ovarian eggs in an advanced stage measure 18 × 5 mm . Gen. HEPTATRETUS Dum ...
... Cape Point , Cape Hangklip , and Saldanha Bay , 95-250 fathoms . Type in the British Museum . The naturally deposited eggs of this species are unknown , but ovarian eggs in an advanced stage measure 18 × 5 mm . Gen. HEPTATRETUS Dum ...
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... Cape seas . Distribution . - Indian Ocean to Japan . Carcharinus walbeehmi ( Blkr . ) . Walbeehm's Sharp - nosed Shark . 1856. Bleeker , Nat . Tyds . Ned . Ind . , vol . x , p . 353 . 1870. Günther , Cat . Fish . Brit . Mus . , vol ...
... Cape seas . Distribution . - Indian Ocean to Japan . Carcharinus walbeehmi ( Blkr . ) . Walbeehm's Sharp - nosed Shark . 1856. Bleeker , Nat . Tyds . Ned . Ind . , vol . x , p . 353 . 1870. Günther , Cat . Fish . Brit . Mus . , vol ...
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... Cape seas . Distribution . - Cosmopolitan . A rather small ground shark found nearly all over the world . Gen. LEPTOCARCHARIAS Gnthr . 1870. Günther , Cat . Fish . Brit . Mus . , vol . viii , p . 384 . Second dorsal not much smaller ...
... Cape seas . Distribution . - Cosmopolitan . A rather small ground shark found nearly all over the world . Gen. LEPTOCARCHARIAS Gnthr . 1870. Günther , Cat . Fish . Brit . Mus . , vol . viii , p . 384 . Second dorsal not much smaller ...
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... Cape seas . Distribution . - All tropical and subtropical seas . Fam . 3. ISURIDAE . Body elongate . Skull hyostylic . Two dorsal fins , without spines , 1st between pectoral and pelvics . Second dorsal and anal very small . A pit at ...
... Cape seas . Distribution . - All tropical and subtropical seas . Fam . 3. ISURIDAE . Body elongate . Skull hyostylic . Two dorsal fins , without spines , 1st between pectoral and pelvics . Second dorsal and anal very small . A pit at ...
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1st dorsal absent adult Agulhas Bank Air-bladder anal fins arch band Barbel Biol blackish Bleeker Branchiostegals Brit canines Cape caudal fin caudal peduncle Colour Colour.-Silvery compressed ctenoid Cuvier and Valenciennes cycloid dark Delagoa Bay Depth of body dorsal and anal dorsal fin Dorsal spines Durban Mus fathoms Fish genus Gilchrist and Thompson Gill Gill-membranes Gill-rakers gill-slits Günther hind margin Hist Ichthyol interorbital width Jordan Lacépède Lateral line length of body length of head Length.-Up Locality.-Natal coast Locality.-Off lower jaw margin of eye Maxilla Maxilla reaching mouth Natal nostril opercle palatine Photophores Plate Poiss posterior premaxilla preopercle preorbital Proc Pseudobranchiae Pyloric caeca Regan Scales scaly serrated silvery slightly snout soft dorsal South African Museum South African species specimens spinous dorsal spots Surv synonymy tail teeth U.S. Nat upper jaw vent vertical villiform vomer Zool