Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 21The Museum, 1927 - Natual history |
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... young are almost exactly like the adults , definite larval forms such as are so common in the Bony Fishes being unknown . The number of eggs or of young is small , the former being of large size and enclosed in a horny case . This group ...
... young are almost exactly like the adults , definite larval forms such as are so common in the Bony Fishes being unknown . The number of eggs or of young is small , the former being of large size and enclosed in a horny case . This group ...
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... young are produced at a birth . Length . - Up to 1500 mm . Colour . - Grey , uniform , or with small irregularly scattered black spots , paler below ; young , with black tips to the dorsal and caudal fins . Locality . Table Bay , Kalk ...
... young are produced at a birth . Length . - Up to 1500 mm . Colour . - Grey , uniform , or with small irregularly scattered black spots , paler below ; young , with black tips to the dorsal and caudal fins . Locality . Table Bay , Kalk ...
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... young individuals up to 12-15 ft . it is produced as a subcylindrical process with the upper apex sharply pointed . The mouth is nearly transverse in the young , but crescentic in the adult . ( Plate II , figs . 1 , la . ) Length . - Up ...
... young individuals up to 12-15 ft . it is produced as a subcylindrical process with the upper apex sharply pointed . The mouth is nearly transverse in the young , but crescentic in the adult . ( Plate II , figs . 1 , la . ) Length . - Up ...
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... young ) base of 1st dorsal , 13 ( 2 in young ) base of 2nd dorsal , and 1 ( 1 in young ) times its distance from caudal . Pectoral rounded , its posterior margin extending half - way to base of pelvics , which in 3 are united for rather ...
... young ) base of 1st dorsal , 13 ( 2 in young ) base of 2nd dorsal , and 1 ( 1 in young ) times its distance from caudal . Pectoral rounded , its posterior margin extending half - way to base of pelvics , which in 3 are united for rather ...
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... young , one would expect the eye to be even smaller in the adult . For this reason alone the species described above cannot be identified with microps . There are , moreover , several other differences in the proportions of the fins ...
... young , one would expect the eye to be even smaller in the adult . For this reason alone the species described above cannot be identified with microps . There are , moreover , several other differences in the proportions of the fins ...
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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