Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 21The Museum, 1927 - Natual history |
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... fig . 3 . 1914. Thompson , Mar. Biol . Rep . , vol . ii , p . 139 . Snout rounded , its preoral length less than width of mouth . A very EXPLANATION OF PLATES . PLATE I. FIG . TIXT - 24 Annals of the South African Museum .
... fig . 3 . 1914. Thompson , Mar. Biol . Rep . , vol . ii , p . 139 . Snout rounded , its preoral length less than width of mouth . A very EXPLANATION OF PLATES . PLATE I. FIG . TIXT - 24 Annals of the South African Museum .
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South African Museum. EXPLANATION OF PLATES . PLATE I. FIG . TIXT - PAGE 1. Heptranchias pectorosus ( Garman ) ♂ ( after Day ) 21 2. Carcharinus walbeehmi ( Blkr . ) ( original ) 24 3. Galeorhinus canis ( Rond . ) ( original ) 28 4 ...
South African Museum. EXPLANATION OF PLATES . PLATE I. FIG . TIXT - PAGE 1. Heptranchias pectorosus ( Garman ) ♂ ( after Day ) 21 2. Carcharinus walbeehmi ( Blkr . ) ( original ) 24 3. Galeorhinus canis ( Rond . ) ( original ) 28 4 ...
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... ( Plate I , fig . 3. ) and pectoral , but Length . - Up to 1800 mm . - Colour . Steely or bronzy grey , whitish below ; pupil emerald green , iris black . Locality . - Cape seas . Distribution . - Cosmopolitan . A rather small ground ...
... ( Plate I , fig . 3. ) and pectoral , but Length . - Up to 1800 mm . - Colour . Steely or bronzy grey , whitish below ; pupil emerald green , iris black . Locality . - Cape seas . Distribution . - Cosmopolitan . A rather small ground ...
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... ( Plate I , fig . 6. ) Length . - Up to 2100 mm . ( 7 ft . ) . Colour . - Bluish black above , whitish below ; hind angles of dorsal fins whitish . Locality - Cape seas . Distribution . - Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . Gen. CARCHARODON ...
... ( Plate I , fig . 6. ) Length . - Up to 2100 mm . ( 7 ft . ) . Colour . - Bluish black above , whitish below ; hind angles of dorsal fins whitish . Locality - Cape seas . Distribution . - Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . Gen. CARCHARODON ...
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... ( Plate II , fig . 5. ) Length . - Up to 700 mm . Colour . - Grey , with oval or circular more or less complete dark ocellate markings arranged more or less in longitudinal bands . Locality . False Bay to Algoa Bay . Distribution ...
... ( Plate II , fig . 5. ) Length . - Up to 700 mm . Colour . - Grey , with oval or circular more or less complete dark ocellate markings arranged more or less in longitudinal bands . Locality . False Bay to Algoa Bay . Distribution ...
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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