- Title
- The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the Western Indian Ocean, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 11
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date
- 1959
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14973, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018772, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 11
- Description
- Family Eleotridae - The Gobioid fishes are one of the major trials of ichthyologists, and when general regional collections are worked up, these fishes tend to be pushed aside, and are apparently often identified with some impatience by those not especially interested. It is not indeed uncommon for later workers to find several species in a bottle supposed to contain only one, or to find one and the same fish in the same collection labelled with different names. All this is understandable, for not only are there numerous species, but almost all are small to minute, so that accurate description and especially illustration are no light undertaking. In addition, they are generally covered with mucus, so that two exactly similar living specimens, preserved in different media, e.g. alcohol and formalin, can emerge looking so completely different, that the purely museum worker may be forgiven for considering them different species., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 137-150, [2] plates (col.); 151-163, [1] plate; ill; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 11
- 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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