- Title
- Fishes of the family Anthiidae, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 21
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Ground beetles, Fishes -- Classification, Fishes -- Indian Ocean, Fishes -- Red Sea
- Date
- 1961
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14984, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018951, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 21
- Description
- These fishes are generally assigned to the family Serranidae, one of the most diverse and cumbersome groups of fishes. Containing numerous ill-assorted types this family for convenience at least merits sub-division. One of the natural sub-groups, generally given sub-family status as the Anthiinae, but here given full family rank, consists mainly of small, brilliant, free-swimming coral haunting types confined almost exclusively to tropical seas. These d iffer from the Serranidae proper in the absence of a supramaxilla, in having larger scales, in the dentition, and mostly in the concave or lunate caudal. Although by most workers assigned without question to the Serranidae (sensustricto) the monotypic genus Variola Swainson, 1839 has distinct affinities with the Anthiidae. The dentition, lunate caudal and the brilliant colouration accord better with the Anthiid than with the Serranid fishes., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [11], 359-362, [i] col. plate, 363-366, [i] col. plate, 367-369; ill. (some col.); 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 21
- 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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