A taxonomic study of the Genus Lethrinops Regan (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi: part 3
- Eccles, David H, Lewis, Digby S C
- Authors: Eccles, David H , Lewis, Digby S C
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Lethrinops -- Malawi, Lake -- Classification , Haplochromis -- Malawi, Lake -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15007 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019730 , ISBN 0868100021 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 38
- Description: The group of species considered all have short moderate snouts and a group of slightly to strongly enlarged teeth on the lower pharyngeal bone, the anterior and lateral teeth of which are biscupid, with the posterior cusp turned forwards. Lethrinops parvidens Trewavas, L. aurita (Regan), L. macrophthalmus (Boulenger), L. macrochir (Regan), L.longimanus Trewavas and L. macracanthus Trewavas are re-described, and L. mylodon n. sp. is described, the latter being divided into two geographically seperated sub-species. While L. longimanus and L. macracanthus co-exist with very slight overlap of morphological characters in the south of Lake Malawi, an apparently intermediate population is reported from another part of the Lake. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Eccles, David H , Lewis, Digby S C
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Lethrinops -- Malawi, Lake -- Classification , Haplochromis -- Malawi, Lake -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15007 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019730 , ISBN 0868100021 , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 38
- Description: The group of species considered all have short moderate snouts and a group of slightly to strongly enlarged teeth on the lower pharyngeal bone, the anterior and lateral teeth of which are biscupid, with the posterior cusp turned forwards. Lethrinops parvidens Trewavas, L. aurita (Regan), L. macrophthalmus (Boulenger), L. macrochir (Regan), L.longimanus Trewavas and L. macracanthus Trewavas are re-described, and L. mylodon n. sp. is described, the latter being divided into two geographically seperated sub-species. While L. longimanus and L. macracanthus co-exist with very slight overlap of morphological characters in the south of Lake Malawi, an apparently intermediate population is reported from another part of the Lake. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1979
The nature of the barriers separating the Lake Malawi and Zambezi fish faunas
- Tweddle, D S C, Lewis, Digby S C, Willoughby, N G
- Authors: Tweddle, D S C , Lewis, Digby S C , Willoughby, N G
- Date: 1979
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15018 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019797 , ISBN 086810003X , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 39
- Description: Part 1: The nature of the barriers separating the Lake Malawi and Zambezi fish faunas: The nature of the barrier separating the ‘Lake Malawi’ from the ‘Lower Zambezi’ fish faunas was investigated by electrofishing the 145 km stretch of the Shire River surrounding the Murchison cataracts. The study shows that the lowermost element of the cataracts, the Kapachira Falls, is an absolute physical barrier to upstream movement of ‘Lower Zambezi’ species. The barrier to downstream movement by ‘Lake Malawi’ species is largely ecological and has two components, the fluviatile nature of the Upper and Middle Shire and especially the torrential nature of the cataracts, which are unsuitable for lacustrine species, and competition with the ‘Lower Zambezi’ fauna of the Lower Shire by the few species which succeed in negotiating the cataracts. , Part 2: An annotated checklist of the fish fauna of the River Shire south of Kapachira Falls, Malawi: The Shire River drains Lake Malawi and is a major tributary of the Lower Zambezi River. Sixty-one species of fish have been recorded in the lower reaches which are separated from the lower Shire basin by the Kapachira Falls and from the ‘East Coast River’ fauna present in the Upper Ruo River by the Zoa Falls. The fauna is essentially similar to that of the Lower Zambezi, although some Lake Malawi endemics occur sporadically in the upper part of the flood plain. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Tweddle, D S C , Lewis, Digby S C , Willoughby, N G
- Date: 1979
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:15018 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019797 , ISBN 086810003X , Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 39
- Description: Part 1: The nature of the barriers separating the Lake Malawi and Zambezi fish faunas: The nature of the barrier separating the ‘Lake Malawi’ from the ‘Lower Zambezi’ fish faunas was investigated by electrofishing the 145 km stretch of the Shire River surrounding the Murchison cataracts. The study shows that the lowermost element of the cataracts, the Kapachira Falls, is an absolute physical barrier to upstream movement of ‘Lower Zambezi’ species. The barrier to downstream movement by ‘Lake Malawi’ species is largely ecological and has two components, the fluviatile nature of the Upper and Middle Shire and especially the torrential nature of the cataracts, which are unsuitable for lacustrine species, and competition with the ‘Lower Zambezi’ fauna of the Lower Shire by the few species which succeed in negotiating the cataracts. , Part 2: An annotated checklist of the fish fauna of the River Shire south of Kapachira Falls, Malawi: The Shire River drains Lake Malawi and is a major tributary of the Lower Zambezi River. Sixty-one species of fish have been recorded in the lower reaches which are separated from the lower Shire basin by the Kapachira Falls and from the ‘East Coast River’ fauna present in the Upper Ruo River by the Zoa Falls. The fauna is essentially similar to that of the Lower Zambezi, although some Lake Malawi endemics occur sporadically in the upper part of the flood plain. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1979
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