- Title
- Fishes of the family Pentacerotidae, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 29
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Pentacerotidae, Fishes -- Classification
- Date
- 1964
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:15008, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019731, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 29
- Description
- Family Pentacerotidae - Formerly known as the Histiopteridae, Follett and Dempster 1963 have shed new light on the nomenclature of the categories in this family. The earliest genus is Pentaceros C & V, 1829. This has long been held in abeyance on the grounds that it was preoccupied by Pentaceros Schulze, 1760 as well as by Pentaceros Schroeter, 1782 (both for Starfishes). Follett and Dempster have however shown that neither Pentaceros Schulze nor Pentaceros Schroeter is valid, and that Pentaceros C & V is therefore not invalidated. Further, Pentaceros C & V, 1829 was used in primary zoological literature by Gilchrist in 1902, and by Thompson in 1916, and hence cannot be relegated as a nomen oblitum. The oldest available family category name is the PENTACERATINA of Gunther, 1859 (which was corrected by Gill, 1893 to PENTACERATOINA). Bleeker, 1861 used the family name Pentacerotoidei, and as these antedate the name Histiopteridae of Jordan 1905, the family name becomes PENTACEROTIDAE., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [ii], 567-568, [i] plate, 569-572, [ii] plate, 573-576, [i] plate, 577-578, [i] plate; ill; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print edition of the Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 29
- 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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