Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 21The Museum, 1927 - Natual history |
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... Ventral fin ending at a great distance ( 100 mm . ) behind last gill - opening . Length . - 620 mm . Colour . - Dark brown . Locality . - Off Cape Point , 400 fathoms . s.s. Pieter Faure . " Type in the South African Museum . The ...
... Ventral fin ending at a great distance ( 100 mm . ) behind last gill - opening . Length . - 620 mm . Colour . - Dark brown . Locality . - Off Cape Point , 400 fathoms . s.s. Pieter Faure . " Type in the South African Museum . The ...
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... ventral , and each has only a single opening . The vent and urino- genital organs open by a common ( cloacal ) aperture . Males with intromittent organs in the form of claspers on the ventral fins . In opposition to the Bony Fishes ...
... ventral , and each has only a single opening . The vent and urino- genital organs open by a common ( cloacal ) aperture . Males with intromittent organs in the form of claspers on the ventral fins . In opposition to the Bony Fishes ...
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... ventral . Teeth in both jaws 2. Mouth terminal . Teeth in lower jaw only Mobula . Manta . Gen. MOBULA Raf . ( = DICEROBATIS Blnvl . and CEPHALOPTERA auct . ) 1810. Rafinesque , Indice d ' Ittiol . Sicil . , p . 61 . Pectoral fins ...
... ventral . Teeth in both jaws 2. Mouth terminal . Teeth in lower jaw only Mobula . Manta . Gen. MOBULA Raf . ( = DICEROBATIS Blnvl . and CEPHALOPTERA auct . ) 1810. Rafinesque , Indice d ' Ittiol . Sicil . , p . 61 . Pectoral fins ...
Page 93
... ventral tenacula in the male . The frontal tenaculum is a club - shaped process , studded with recurved hooks , and retractile into a pit on the forehead . The ventral A B FIG . 10. - Egg - cases of A , Chimaera monstrosa ( after Dean ) ...
... ventral tenacula in the male . The frontal tenaculum is a club - shaped process , studded with recurved hooks , and retractile into a pit on the forehead . The ventral A B FIG . 10. - Egg - cases of A , Chimaera monstrosa ( after Dean ) ...
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... ventral lobe of the caudal very shallow . Lateral line sulcate , i.e. an open groove . Egg- case elongate , spindle - shaped , but truncate in front , margin narrow . Gen. CHIMAERA Linn . 1758. Linné , Syst . Nat . , ed . 10 , p . 236 ...
... ventral lobe of the caudal very shallow . Lateral line sulcate , i.e. an open groove . Egg- case elongate , spindle - shaped , but truncate in front , margin narrow . Gen. CHIMAERA Linn . 1758. Linné , Syst . Nat . , ed . 10 , p . 236 ...
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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