- Title
- List of the fishes of the Family Labridae in the Western Indian Ocean, with new records and five new species, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 7
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Wrasses -- Indian Ocean
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14983, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018950, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 7
- Description
- Labrid fishes are primarily shore dwelling in tropical seas, few penetrating to cooler waters. An interesting distributional picture in the case of these fishes is observed along the coast of East and South Africa, for not only does the shore line stretch across the equator, but the warm and powerful westward current of the Indian Ocean divides south of the equator, one branch flowing north, the other, the powerful Mozambique current, southwards. As a result Labrid (and other) fishes, which in most parts are confined to a fairly narrow equatorial belt, are here spread out over an abnormally extensive area, many indeed living in surprising latitudes, e.g. the young of Thalassoma purpurem Forskal, have been found at 34°S x 24°E., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [11], 99-106, [ii] col. plates, 107-114; ill; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print version of the Ichthylogical Bulletin; No. 7
- 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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