Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 97South African Museum, 1985 - Natual history |
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... fauna . Rubiés ( 1985 ) has recently examined the myctophid fauna off the South West African - Namibian coast , recording a total of 41 species . Twenty - five of these species were taken only from the Valdivia Bank area on the Walvis ...
... fauna . Rubiés ( 1985 ) has recently examined the myctophid fauna off the South West African - Namibian coast , recording a total of 41 species . Twenty - five of these species were taken only from the Valdivia Bank area on the Walvis ...
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... fauna . The results indicate that this is true and that temperate species ( 52 % ) and subtropical species ( 19 % ) comprise about 71 per cent of the total lanternfish fauna . The compositional value for the broadly tropical element ...
... fauna . The results indicate that this is true and that temperate species ( 52 % ) and subtropical species ( 19 % ) comprise about 71 per cent of the total lanternfish fauna . The compositional value for the broadly tropical element ...
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... fauna is , in a broad sense , early middle Miocene in age , i.e. somewhere between 17,2 and 14 m.y. old . Its importance is very great , providing , as it does , the only glimpse of a middle Miocene terrestrial fauna for virtually the ...
... fauna is , in a broad sense , early middle Miocene in age , i.e. somewhere between 17,2 and 14 m.y. old . Its importance is very great , providing , as it does , the only glimpse of a middle Miocene terrestrial fauna for virtually the ...
Contents
The Elandsfontein material | 31 |
The Zululand specimen | 39 |
Acknowledgements | 53 |
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50 m Complex abbreviations Agulhas Amphipoda Annals anteriorly apelex Arrisdrift authors Avontuur Barnard body whorl brachial valve brachiopods canines Cape Province Cape Town Carrington & Kensley Ciconia Ciconiidae coast columella comma convex cusp deposits depth Description Diaphus distal distribution dorsal dune Elandsfontein fauna figures fossil Gastropoda genus Geronticus Gnathopod hauls Hendey high sea-level Holotype Hondeklip Zone Hottentot Hulley interior Khoikhoi Koingnaas Kolpochoerus Lampanyctodes hectoris Lampanyctus Langebaanweg lanternfish Lemboides length limnetes lirae mandible margin material mesopelagic Miocene Mollusca Myctophidae Myctophum Nafpaktitis nigrescens Ocean outer lip paiceae paper paratypes parentheses pedicle pedicle valve photophore plates Pliocene posterior recorded references ribs Saldanha Saldanha Bay scientific name sclerites shell Skurwerug Smith socket ridges South African Museum southern Africa southern Benguela region SP SPP species specific name specimens spiral stork SUID-AFRIKAANSE MUSEUM Synonymy Table Tankard tarsometatarsus Tertiary tooth Triphoturus upper Uropod USNM ventral width Xenobrochus