Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 21The Museum, 1927 - Natual history |
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... depth of body ( at level of gill - openings ) 12 times in total length . Ventral fin ending at a great distance ( 100 mm . ) behind last gill - opening . Length . - 620 mm . Colour . - Dark brown . Locality . - Off Cape Point , 400 ...
... depth of body ( at level of gill - openings ) 12 times in total length . Ventral fin ending at a great distance ( 100 mm . ) behind last gill - opening . Length . - 620 mm . Colour . - Dark brown . Locality . - Off Cape Point , 400 ...
Page 121
... depth at level of pectoral . Eye subequal to snout , not quite twice interorbital width , 32 in length of head , 10 ... depth . Scales : 1.1 . 53-55 ; 1.tr. 13-14 . Gill - rakers 14 on lower part of anterior arch . Pyloric caeca ( 14 ...
... depth at level of pectoral . Eye subequal to snout , not quite twice interorbital width , 32 in length of head , 10 ... depth . Scales : 1.1 . 53-55 ; 1.tr. 13-14 . Gill - rakers 14 on lower part of anterior arch . Pyloric caeca ( 14 ...
Page 125
... Depth of body 11 ( young ) to 8 ( adult ) , head 41-42 times in length . Eye 4-5 in length of head . D 11-13 , A 9-10 . Both lips fringed with papillae . One median papilla and 2 pairs of submedian papillae on roof of mouth in front of ...
... Depth of body 11 ( young ) to 8 ( adult ) , head 41-42 times in length . Eye 4-5 in length of head . D 11-13 , A 9-10 . Both lips fringed with papillae . One median papilla and 2 pairs of submedian papillae on roof of mouth in front of ...
Page 132
... depths , but apparently in many cases rising towards the surface at night time . Key to the South African genera . I ... Depth at least c . Dorsal entirely in advance of anal of length · Yarrella . of length Diplophos . 2. Photophores ...
... depths , but apparently in many cases rising towards the surface at night time . Key to the South African genera . I ... Depth at least c . Dorsal entirely in advance of anal of length · Yarrella . of length Diplophos . 2. Photophores ...
Page 152
... depth 13 in greatest depth of fore part of body . Eye larger than snout , 21- 2 in length of head . Dorsal and ventral ridges not serrated , no spines on lower surface of tail . angle of preoperculum , 1 at end keel . D VII +9 , A 13 ...
... depth 13 in greatest depth of fore part of body . Eye larger than snout , 21- 2 in length of head . Dorsal and ventral ridges not serrated , no spines on lower surface of tail . angle of preoperculum , 1 at end keel . D VII +9 , A 13 ...
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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