- Title
- Sand-dwelling eels of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 24
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Fishes -- Classification, Fishes -- Indian Ocean, Fishes -- Red Sea
- Date
- 1962
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14992, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019664, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 24
- Description
- The Western Indian Ocean has been found to be notably rich in marine eels. The Moray eels have been treated earlier (Bulletin No 23). In the present revision are described eels of the families OPHICHTHIDAE, ECHELIDAE, M ORING UIDAE, and NEENCHELIDAE, which are chiefly sand-dwelling forms, norm ally not free swimming by day. Some favour muddy areas where the water is turbid, and are found in estuaries, sometimes in or near fresh water. None of these eels are of any economic importance in the Western Indian Ocean though some are eaten by the natives in parts of the region. Only few attain any size, the majority are small and seldom encountered by the ordinary fisherman, in many cases they have been unknown to the local inhabitants. Our specimens were obtained chiefly by rotenone poisoning of suitable areas, mainly intertidal., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 447-448, [i] plate, 449-450, [i] plate, 451-454, [i] plate, 455-458, [i] plate, 459-462, [i] plate, 463-464, [i] plate, 465-466; ill; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 24
- Contributor
- Smith, Margaret Mary (Illustrator)
- Publisher
- Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ichthyological bulletin (Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology)
- Rights
- Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, CC BY-NC-SA : Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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