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Studies in carangid fishes no.3: the genus Trachinotus Lacepede, in the western Indian Ocean

The lizard shark Chlamydoselachus Anguineus Garman, in South Africa

Certain rare fishes from South Africa

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

Hitherto unknown early developmental larval stadia of the West African albulid fish Pterothrissus Belloci Cadenat, 1937

Interesting fishes from South Africa

The rare big-eye Pristigenys Niphonia (C&V) in South Africa

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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Kaupichthys Diodontus Schultz in the western Indian Ocean: a problem in systematics

New records and descriptions of fishes from Southwest Africa

New records and new species of fishes from South Africa, chiefly from Natal

The Indian genus Bathymyrus Alcock, 1889 with description of a new species from Vietnam

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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The clingfishes of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1964
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:15017 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019796 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 30
  • Description: In only few cases is anything definite known about the reproduction of Clingfishes. Probably all produce eggs, in some cases (see Eckloniaichthys below) this somewhat abnormally follows internal fertilization by copulation. In those cases that have been studied the eggs are laid in a single layer and are strongly adhesive to the surface of the rock, weed or shell on which they are deposited. The number of eggs varies from about a dozen to many hundreds. The female of the large South African Chorisochismus dentex has been observed to guard the eggs and to assist aeration by fanning. In some species there is marked sexual dimorphism in body shape and in dentition, while males may have a large genital papilla. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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The Statute of Limitation - stability or chaos

Fishes of the families Draconettidae and Callionymidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Dragonets -- Classification , Dragonets -- Red Sea , Dragonets -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:15015 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019785 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 28
  • Description: Division Callionymiformes: Head usually broad, depressed. Body without scales but lateral line well defined, those of 2 sides generally connected over the occiput, sometimes also over peduncle. Mostly two dorsal fins, by exception one, the first of 1-4 flexible spines, the soft fin longer, anal similar to soft dorsal. Gillopenings usually reduced or even pore-like. Mouth small, fine Villiform teeth uniserial or in bands in each jaw, none on palate. One or more of the opercular bones armed with a spine. All small fishes, some in deep water, 2 families in our area, easily distinguished. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Fishes of the family Syngnathidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Syngnathidae , Fishes -- Red Sea , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:15002 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019716 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 27
  • Description: Family Syngnathidae - Seahorses: Pipefishes - Body encased in tough but flexible horny rings, all except the first corresponding with the vertebrae, of which the first three are ankylosed. Body form mostly elongate, with clearly defined head, trunk and tail, the trunk stouter, in Seahorses much stouter, than the usually slender tail. The head rather slender, its chief features a tubular sometimes very elongate snout with a small terminal oblique mouth, no teeth of any kind: a tiny pore-like branchial opening, the gillmembranes fused with the skin of the shoulder; four lobate or tuft-like gills. Pelvics absent, other fins usually present, the caudal often absent, rarely the anal or the pectoral or all fins absent. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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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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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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The moray eels of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1962
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14991 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019663 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 23
  • Description: The reefs of the Western Indian Ocean hold a dense population of marine eels of all kinds, and the morays are well represented. On some reefs in the more remote parts not often visited by humans we found a swarming population of morays, at low tide great numbers were moving freely all over the reef. In more inhabited areas there are fewer as the natives kill all they can, fearing them as much as snakes. Some species attain a large size, in East African coral reefs we have seen some with bodies the thickness of a man’s thigh. Native divers have told us that they fear these eels more than any other marine creature, as they have been known to seize a diver under the water, and so held he is powerless and drowns in a short time as there is no escaping from their powerful grip. While in some parts morays are eaten, they are apparently nowhere valued as food. In East Africa only certain natives eat them, but a number are dried for sending inland. In some parts the flesh of the moray produces an intoxication that may prove fatal (Ichthyosarcotoxism) and for which no antidote is known. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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