A review of the South African Cheilodactylid fishes (Pisces: Perciformes), with descriptions of two new species
- Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Cheilodactylidae -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14998 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019707 , ISBN 0-868-0-027-7 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 42
- Description: Two new species, Cheilodactylus pixi and Chirodactylus jessicalenorum, are added to the three known South African representatives of the Cheilodactylidae. Palunolepis is considered a junior synonym of Chirodactylus. Keys to the five species are given. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Cheilodactylidae -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14998 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019707 , ISBN 0-868-0-027-7 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 42
- Description: Two new species, Cheilodactylus pixi and Chirodactylus jessicalenorum, are added to the three known South African representatives of the Cheilodactylidae. Palunolepis is considered a junior synonym of Chirodactylus. Keys to the five species are given. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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A revision of the Zeid fishes (Zeiformes: Zeidae) of South Africa
- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Zeidae -- Classification , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14994 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019674 , ISBN 0-86810006-4 , Ichthyological Bulletin J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 41
- Description: The zeid fishes of South Africa are revised; five species in four genera are described and illustrated. Paracyttopsis scutatus Gilchrist & von Bonde and Zen itea (Jordan & Fowler) are shown to be junior synonyms of Cyttopsis roseus (Lowe). Zeus japonicus Valenciennes and Zeus australis Richardson are considered synonyms of Zeus faber Linnaeus; there seems to be no basis for recognition of subspecies in this wide-ranging species. Zenopsis ocellatus (Storer) is placed in the synonymy of Zenopsis conchifer (Lowe). A key to the families of zeiform fishes is presented, and diagnosis for those families represented in South African waters are given. Keys to the South African species of Grammicolepididae, Oreosomatidae, and Zeidae are also included. The distributions of zeid fishes are discussed. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Zeidae -- Classification , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14994 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019674 , ISBN 0-86810006-4 , Ichthyological Bulletin J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 41
- Description: The zeid fishes of South Africa are revised; five species in four genera are described and illustrated. Paracyttopsis scutatus Gilchrist & von Bonde and Zen itea (Jordan & Fowler) are shown to be junior synonyms of Cyttopsis roseus (Lowe). Zeus japonicus Valenciennes and Zeus australis Richardson are considered synonyms of Zeus faber Linnaeus; there seems to be no basis for recognition of subspecies in this wide-ranging species. Zenopsis ocellatus (Storer) is placed in the synonymy of Zenopsis conchifer (Lowe). A key to the families of zeiform fishes is presented, and diagnosis for those families represented in South African waters are given. Keys to the South African species of Grammicolepididae, Oreosomatidae, and Zeidae are also included. The distributions of zeid fishes are discussed. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Hexatrygonidae, a new family of stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Batoidea) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of Batoid fishes
- Heemstra, Phillip C, Smith, Margaret Mary
- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Hexatrygonidae , Hexatrygon bickelli , Stingrays -- South Africa -- Classification , Rajiformes -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14996 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019701 , ISBN 0-86810-038-2 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 43
- Description: A new species of stingray, Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra and Smith, is described from a specimen washed up on a beach at Port Elizabeth on the south coast of South Africa. This new species differs from all other batoid fishes in having six gill arches and a peculiar hypertrophied snout that appears to be a well-developed electroreceptive organ, and in the configuration of its spiracles. Other characters that separate H. bickelli from previously known rays (myliobatiforms) are its small simple brain (other rays have a very large complex brain) and the absence of supraorbital crests on the cranium. In addition, all myliobatiforms are neritic (with none having been recorded below 200 m), and H. bickelli is.presumed to live in moderately deep water (400 to 1000 m). The classification of batoid fishes is reviewed, and Hexatrygon is placed in a new family and suborder of the Myliobatiformes. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Smith, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Hexatrygonidae , Hexatrygon bickelli , Stingrays -- South Africa -- Classification , Rajiformes -- South Africa -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14996 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019701 , ISBN 0-86810-038-2 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 43
- Description: A new species of stingray, Hexatrygon bickelli Heemstra and Smith, is described from a specimen washed up on a beach at Port Elizabeth on the south coast of South Africa. This new species differs from all other batoid fishes in having six gill arches and a peculiar hypertrophied snout that appears to be a well-developed electroreceptive organ, and in the configuration of its spiracles. Other characters that separate H. bickelli from previously known rays (myliobatiforms) are its small simple brain (other rays have a very large complex brain) and the absence of supraorbital crests on the cranium. In addition, all myliobatiforms are neritic (with none having been recorded below 200 m), and H. bickelli is.presumed to live in moderately deep water (400 to 1000 m). The classification of batoid fishes is reviewed, and Hexatrygon is placed in a new family and suborder of the Myliobatiformes. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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