- Title
- A review of the Labrid fishes of the genus Halichoeres of the Western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of six new species, Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45
- Creator
- Randall, John E, 1924-, Smith, Margaret Mary
- Subject
- Halichoeres -- Indian Ocean
- Date
- 1982
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:15000, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019709, ISBN 0-86810-071-4, Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45
- Description
- Fifteen species of the labrid fish genus Halichoeres occur in the western Indian Ocean (west of the southern tip of India): hortulanus (centiquadrus of many authors), scapularis, (ziczac is a synonym), marginatus (lamarii, ianthinus and virescens are synonyms), dussumieri (nigrescens of many authors; javanicus, dubius and dianthus are synonyms), pardaleocephalus (first western Indian Ocean record), hoevenii (vrolikii is a synonym), nebulosus (previously confused with margaritaceus which does not occur in the Indian Ocean), zeylonicus (bimaculatus of most authors is a synonym), lapillus, and six new species (stigmaticus, pelicieri, cosmetus, iridis, trispilus, and leucoxanthus). H. stigmaticus from the Persian Gulf is distinctive in having 28 lateral-line scales, 6 or 7 suborbital pores, and a U-shaped black mark on side above pectoral fin tips in males; H. pelicieri from Mauritius is a close relative of H. zeylonicus, differing chiefly in the colour of males (pelicieri with a broad blackish zone in dorsal fin and no large black spot on upper side); H. cosmetus, wide-ranging in the western Indian Ocean and a close relative of H. ornatissimus of the Pacific and Cocos-Keeling Islands, is alternately striped with bluish gray to green and salmon pink or yellow; H. iridis, also a species of the western Indian Ocean, has a dark brown body except for a red band along the back and an orange-yellow head with green bands; H. trispilus, known only from Mauritius and the Maldives, is pale pink with a diagonal row of three dark brown spots on upper caudal base and usually three black dots on back; H. leucoxanthus, known only from the Maldives, southwest Thailand and Java, is yellow dorsally and abruptly white on ventral half of body with a dark spot behind the eye, a black spot on upper caudal base, and three others in the dorsal fin., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- Online version of original print version of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 45, [ii], 1-9, [ii] col. plates, 10-11, [ii] col. plates, 12-13, [ii] col. plates, 14-15, [ii] col. plates, 16-24, [ii]; col. ill.; 28 cm.
- Publisher
- J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University
- 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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