- Title
- The fishes of the Family Scorpaenidae; Part 2: The sub-families Pteroinae, Apistinae, Setarchinae and Sebastinae, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 5
- Creator
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Subject
- Scorpionfishes, Scorpaenid fishes, Scorpaenidae, Scorpaenids
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- vital:14968, http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018542, Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 5
- Description
- Moderately compressed body with moderate to small cycloid or ctenoid scales, head partly scaly. 12-13 dorsal spines, usually elongate, separate, free from membrane. Anal usually with 3 spines, (rarely 2), the third longest. Pectoral elongate to very long, rays sometimes all simple, filamentous and free. In smallest stadia the pectoral is short, at first rapidly increases with growth, then shortens. The head with spines, variably single or multifid, spination usually increases with age, in some cases very markedly., Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Format
- [iii], 75-87, [88-89]; ill; 28 cm, pdf, Online version of original print version of the Ichthylogical Bulletin; No. 5
- 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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