- Title
- Studies in Carangid fishes No.6: key to the western Indian Ocean species of the Genus Carangoides Bleeker, 1851, with a description of Carangoides Nitidus Smith
- Creator
- Smith, Margaret M
- Date
- 1972
- Type
- text
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:7124
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004450
- Description
- From introduction: Fishes in the family Carangidae commonly known as Jacks or Kingfishes are generally characterised by a silvery ovate body with s mall insignificant cycloid scales,a lateral line with curved anterior portion and a posterior straight portion bearing scules, a moderate mouth usually with feeble teeth, no dorsal and anal finlets, and a deeply forked caudal with a slender peduncle. A horizontally forwardly directed spine from the dorsal pterygiophore visible in front of the dorsal fin in shrunken or dried specimens, and the first two anal spines separate from the third and the rest of the fin are more pronounced in juvenile specimens.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology (JLBSI)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
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