- Title
- Fishes of the family Gobiidae in South Africa, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 18
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Gobiidae -- South Africa
- Date
- 1960
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14980, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018779, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 18
- Description
- Gobioid fishes are not popular with most ichthyologists, which is understandable, for most species are small to minute, and of neither commercial nor angling significance. Although almost all live in shallow water, many Gobies are so expert at concealment, that only the most thorough collecting brings them to light. Thirty years ago only 16 species were known in purely South African waters, where as in the present review, no less than 46 species are described from the South African zone, which is here taken as the area between Walfish Bay and Delagoa Bay. Critical revision of the South African species is long overdue, as the results of this review clearly reveal. Not only have there been malidentifications but also much confusion, e.g. it has been found that in nudicepts C & V, 1837, no less than four species have been confused. In addition, there have been constant new discoveries., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 299-314; ill; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 18
- 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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