- Title
- The clingfishes of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 30
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date
- 1964
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:15017, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019796, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 30
- Description
- In only few cases is anything definite known about the reproduction of Clingfishes. Probably all produce eggs, in some cases (see Eckloniaichthys below) this somewhat abnormally follows internal fertilization by copulation. In those cases that have been studied the eggs are laid in a single layer and are strongly adhesive to the surface of the rock, weed or shell on which they are deposited. The number of eggs varies from about a dozen to many hundreds. The female of the large South African Chorisochismus dentex has been observed to guard the eggs and to assist aeration by fanning. In some species there is marked sexual dimorphism in body shape and in dentition, while males may have a large genital papilla., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 581-582, [i] plate, 583-584, [i] plate, 585-586, [i] plate, 587-590, [i] plate, 591-592, [i] plate, 593-594, [i] plate, 595-596, [i] p.; ill. ; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print version of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 30
- 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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