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A new species of the triggerfish genus Xenobalistes matsuura (Tetradontiformes: Balistidae) from South Africa

  • Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Smith, Margaret Mary , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1983-01
  • Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa , Fishes -- Classification , Balistidae -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69968 , vital:29603 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 26 , Xenobalistes punctatus, the second species of the peculiar balistid genus Xenobalistes, is described from one specimen found on the beach at the mouth of the Van Stadens River, eastern Cape Province, South Africa. X. punctatus differs significantly from X. tumidipectoris Matsuura, 1981 in the number of body scale rows and spination of the anterolateral surface of the first dorsal-fin spine. The head and body of X. punctatus are dark brown, covered with numerous, small, evenly-spaced, silvery/white spots.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-01

Nelabrichthys, a new genus of labrid fish (Perciformes: Labridae) from the southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans

  • Authors: Russell, Barry C , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1983-01
  • Subjects: Wrasses , Fishes -- Classification
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69980 , vital:29604 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 27 , A new monotypic genus of labrid fish, Nelabrichthys, is recognized for Labrus ornatus Carmichael, described from Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Labrichthys lantzii Sauvage and L. isleanus Sauvage from Saint-Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean, and Platyglossus robinsoni Gilchrist and Thompson, erroneously thought to be from the Natal coast of South Africa, are junior syonyms of N. ornatus.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-01

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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  • Date Issued: 1980

A revision of the anthiine fish genus Sacura (Perciformes: Serranidae) with descriptions of two new species

Simochromis margaretae, a new species of cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika

  • Authors: Axelrod, G S (Glen S.) , Harrison, J A (James A.) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1978-12
  • Subjects: Simochromis margaretae , Simochromis -- Classification , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Tanganyika, Lake
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69825 , vital:29585 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 19 , A new cichlid species of the endemic Lake Tanganyikan genus Simochromis is described from four specimens from Kigoma Harbour, illustrated and compared with the other five species of the genus. The new species, S. margaretae, differs from the others in having a greater caudal peduncle depth, longer anal fin spines, and a narrower mouth. The new species further differs from its closest relative, S. marginatus, in having a greater interorbital width, greater postocular head portion, longer mouth, and shorter pectoral fin.
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  • Date Issued: 1978-12

Pavoclinus myae, a new species of clinid fish (Perciformes Blennoidei) from South Africa, with a note on the identity of P. graminis and P. laurentii, and a key to the known species of Pavoclinus

  • Authors: Christensen, M S (Makkel Skou) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1978-07
  • Subjects: Pavoclinus -- Identification , Pavoclinus myae -- Classification , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69814 , vital:29584 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 18 , Pavoclinus myae n.sp. is described from seven specimens collected off the eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The combination of a separate and high anterior section of the dorsal fin, a narrow caudal peduncle, vomerine teeth and fin counts separates P. myae from the eight other members of the genus. The validity of Pavoclinus graminis and P. laurentii was examined and confirmed. New distinguishing features were found, as characters previously used to differentiate these two species were unreliable.
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  • Date Issued: 1978-07

Systematics and distribution of eels of the Muraenesox group (Anguilliformes, Muraenesocidae): a preliminary report and key

  • Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Williamson, Gordon R , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1975-05
  • Subjects: Fishes -- Classification , Muraenesox -- Classification , Muraenesocidae -- Classification
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69746 , vital:29575 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 15 , A study of the eels which have been referred to Muraenesox McClelland clarifies taxonomic confusion in this group and shows it to contain three genera and seven species. M cinereus (Forsskål, 1775) occurs from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean northwards to Japan . M. bagio (Hamilton, 1822) has a wider distribution from South Africa throughout the Indo-west Pacific north to Japan and south to Sydney. Congresox Gill is revived for C. talabon (Cuvier, 1829) and C. talabonoides (Bleeker, 1853) both of which occur in the central Indo-west Pacific. Cynoponticus Costa is represented by C. savanna (Bancroft, 1831) in the West Atlantic, C. ferox Costa, 1845 in the East Atlantic and Mediterranean and C. coniceps (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) in the central East Pacific.
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  • Date Issued: 1975-05

Evolutionary significance of Holapogon, a new genus of cardinal fishes (Apogonidae), with a redescription of its type-species, Apogon maximus

  • Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1973-04
  • Subjects: Holapogon , Holapogon maximus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69640 , vital:29562 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 10 , A new genus is erected for Apogon maximus, a deep water cardinal fish occurring off the coast of southern Arabia in the Indian Ocean. Holapogon is a primitive genus near the ancestor which gave rise to all the living Apogoninae. The type-species, Apogon maximus Boulenger, 1887, is redescribed and aspects of its anatomy are investigated.
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  • Date Issued: 1973-04

A new species of the klipfish genus Springeratus (Clinidae) from the Indian Ocean

  • Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
  • Date: 1972-11
  • Subjects: Klipfish , Springeratus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Geographical distribution , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69630 , vital:29561 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
  • Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 9 , Klipfishes of the subfamily Clininae are among the dominant intertidal fishes in southern Africa. Except for a few tropical clinine members such as Clinus xanthosoma Bleeker, Clinus ekloniae McKay and Petraites roseus (Gunther), these diverse temperate forms seem to be replaced by members of the Blenniidae in the intertidal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Klipfishes have not been collected often in the tropical IndoPacific, but often enough to indicate a distribution for C. xanthosoma from Japan through the Philippines to Indonesia and Ceylon. In a recent publication Shen (1971 b) has brought our knowledge of C. xanthosoma up to date and described a new genus, Springeratus to house this species. The status of C. halei has been and still remains uncertain since Day described it in 1888. While collecting fishes at Mauritius, an undescribed intertidal clinid was obtained. This population of live-bearing klipfish contributes to our understanding of the zoogeography and possible relationships of Australian and southern African Clininae. Penrith (1969: r 14) hypothesized sea-weed transport of a clinid ancestor from Australia to South Africa. The Mauritian species favours her hypothesis as well as casting some doubt on the validity of Springeratus as a genus different from Clinus (sensu Penrith, 1969).
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  • Date Issued: 1972-11

The deepwater fish Scombrosphyraena oceanica from the Caribbean Sea: with comments on its possible relationships

Fishes of the Sub-family Nasinae with a synopsis of the Prionurinae

Fishes of the family Atherinidae of the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean with a new freshwater genus and species from Madagascar

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1965
  • Subjects: Silversides , Teramulus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean , Fishes -- Red Sea
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:15006 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019729 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 31
  • Description: While some of the marine species enter estuaries, it is remarkable that no freshwater forms are known from East African lakes or from African rivers that flow eastwards. One species occurs in lakes in North Africa, and another in West Africa, and seven species of endemic Atherinid fishes have been found to be widespread in the freshwaters of Madagascar. A brief summary of the latter is given below, with a revised description of Teramulus waterloti (Pellegrin, 1932), and the new genus Teramulus, in which two species are shown to be present in Madagascar. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1965

Fishes of the family Pentacerotidae

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1964
  • Subjects: Pentacerotidae , Fishes -- Classification
  • Language: English
  • 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)
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  • Date Issued: 1964

Fishes of the family Gaterinidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea with a resume of all known Indo Pacific species

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1962
  • Subjects: Grunts (FIshes) , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean , Fishes -- Red Sea
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14993 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019670 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 25
  • Description: Family Gaterinidae - Fairly robust usually deeply ovoid body, moderately compressed, covered with moderate to small strong adherent ctenoid scales, mostly only front of muzzle naked. Vertical fins partly scaly. Lateral line complete, concurrent with dorsal profile, but in adults not very distinct, tubules oblique, fewer than series of scales. Snout not pointed, moderately to markedly blunt. Mouth moderate, little protractile, maxilla slips below preorbital for most of its length. Lips well developed, often greatly swollen with age. Feeble cardiform teeth in bands in each jaw, outer series often enlarged, no teeth on palate or tongue. Chin with distinct pores, no central groove behind symphysis. Preopercle coarsely serrate in young, finer w ith age, obsolescent in very large fishes. Gill membranes free from isthmus. Gillrakers well developed, stout, spiny behind, 20-40 on whole outer arch. Dorsal continuous, of (9)10-14 spines and 15-26 rays, total 27-35, spines well developed, moderate to powerful, fewer than soft rays, but spinous part mostly with longer base, fin of almost uniform height to deeply notched, usually less so with age. Anal short, height exceeds base, III (6)7-8(9), 2nd spine mostly longer and stouter than 3rd. Caudal rounded in juveniles, feebly emarginate or truncate with age. Pectoral distinctly shorter than head. Juveniles up to about 40mm differ from the adults in certain features. They show some Pomadasyid characters i.a. the lateral line is continuous, the tubular scales adjacent; no pores are visible on the chin and the maxilla reaches to below the eye. Also the predorsal scaling ends in mid interorbital, and the scale rows above the lateral line are fewer. With growth the scale rows increase in number, but not the tubular L .l. scales, which become separated, the predorsal scales extend to the nostrils, while the snout extends, the maxilla not reaching to eye. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1962

Sand-dwelling eels of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1962
  • Subjects: Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean , Fishes -- Red Sea
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14992 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019664 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 24
  • Description: The Western Indian Ocean has been found to be notably rich in marine eels. The Moray eels have been treated earlier (Bulletin No 23). In the present revision are described eels of the families OPHICHTHIDAE, ECHELIDAE, M ORING UIDAE, and NEENCHELIDAE, which are chiefly sand-dwelling forms, norm ally not free swimming by day. Some favour muddy areas where the water is turbid, and are found in estuaries, sometimes in or near fresh water. None of these eels are of any economic importance in the Western Indian Ocean though some are eaten by the natives in parts of the region. Only few attain any size, the majority are small and seldom encountered by the ordinary fisherman, in many cases they have been unknown to the local inhabitants. Our specimens were obtained chiefly by rotenone poisoning of suitable areas, mainly intertidal. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1962

Fishes of the family Anthiidae

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1961
  • Subjects: Ground beetles , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean , Fishes -- Red Sea
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14984 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018951 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 21
  • Description: These fishes are generally assigned to the family Serranidae, one of the most diverse and cumbersome groups of fishes. Containing numerous ill-assorted types this family for convenience at least merits sub-division. One of the natural sub-groups, generally given sub-family status as the Anthiinae, but here given full family rank, consists mainly of small, brilliant, free-swimming coral haunting types confined almost exclusively to tropical seas. These d iffer from the Serranidae proper in the absence of a supramaxilla, in having larger scales, in the dentition, and mostly in the concave or lunate caudal. Although by most workers assigned without question to the Serranidae (sensustricto) the monotypic genus Variola Swainson, 1839 has distinct affinities with the Anthiidae. The dentition, lunate caudal and the brilliant colouration accord better with the Anthiid than with the Serranid fishes. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1961

Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1961
  • Subjects: Cardinalfishes , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Indian Ocean , Fishes -- Red Sea
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14985 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018952 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 22
  • Description: Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Small and relatively feeble as most of these fishes are many cover an astonishing range. Some are found over truly vast areas of the Indo-Pacific, ranging from Southern Africa to the mid-Pacific. As a result, workers on even mid-Pacific Apogonidae need to give heed to the fauna of the Red Sea and of the Western Indian Ocean, from where, as in the case of the Parrot fishes, many early types were described. Failure to do this has caused species from the Pacific described as new, later to be proved identical with those long known from the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1961
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