Fishes of the families Draconettidae and Callionymidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean
- Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Dragonets -- Classification , Dragonets -- Red Sea , Dragonets -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15015 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019785 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 28
- Description: Division Callionymiformes: Head usually broad, depressed. Body without scales but lateral line well defined, those of 2 sides generally connected over the occiput, sometimes also over peduncle. Mostly two dorsal fins, by exception one, the first of 1-4 flexible spines, the soft fin longer, anal similar to soft dorsal. Gillopenings usually reduced or even pore-like. Mouth small, fine Villiform teeth uniserial or in bands in each jaw, none on palate. One or more of the opercular bones armed with a spine. All small fishes, some in deep water, 2 families in our area, easily distinguished. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Fishes of the family Syngnathidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean
- Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Syngnathidae , Fishes -- Red Sea , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15002 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019716 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 27
- Description: Family Syngnathidae - Seahorses: Pipefishes - Body encased in tough but flexible horny rings, all except the first corresponding with the vertebrae, of which the first three are ankylosed. Body form mostly elongate, with clearly defined head, trunk and tail, the trunk stouter, in Seahorses much stouter, than the usually slender tail. The head rather slender, its chief features a tubular sometimes very elongate snout with a small terminal oblique mouth, no teeth of any kind: a tiny pore-like branchial opening, the gillmembranes fused with the skin of the shoulder; four lobate or tuft-like gills. Pelvics absent, other fins usually present, the caudal often absent, rarely the anal or the pectoral or all fins absent. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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