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Title: Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: South African Museum
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Cape Town : The Museum
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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24. 9-10 A III 18-19. Scales : 1.1. 36-40 ; l.tr. . Rows below 1.1. running 17-19 6 obliquely upwards and backwards. Length.—Up to 200 mm. Colour.—Yellow ; a black band from interorbital through eye tolower margin of preopercle, wider than eye ; behind this a silverywhite band from nape over opercle ; a narrow triangular or wedge-shaped black bar from 6th and 7th dorsal spines to upper margin ofopercle, bordered above and below with white ; oblique series of redspots, more or less united, following the lines of scales on sides ; finsyellow, spinous and soft dorsal and anal with black margins, a reddishband along middle of soft dorsal and anal, an ill-defined black baaidstarting from origin of dorsal and running along base of dorsal to PLATE XXV. piG> TEXT-PAGE 1. Pterycombus falcatus n. sp. (original photo) ..... 599 2. Dipterodon capensis C. and V. (after C. and V.) . . • • 635 3. Lethrinus nebulosus (Forsk.) (original photo) ..... 633 Ann S. Afr. Mus., Vol. XXI. Plate XXV
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Seill <£ Co., Ltd. A Monograph of the Marine Fishes of South Africa. 611 caudal peduncle, where it ends in an enlarged well-defined ocellus ;caudal with a red, followed by a black cross-bar and a white margin.In the young the upper half of the body is more or less suffused withblackish, and there is a black ocellus on the soft dorsal, which graduallymigrates to the margin and is eventually absorbed into the blackmargin, as in vagabundus. Locality.—Xatal coast. Distribution.—Indo-Pacific to China and Australia. Chaetodon vagabundus Linn.Wandering Butterfly-fish. 1758. Linne, Syst, Nat., ed. 10, p. 276. 1878-88. Day, Fish. India, p. 105, pi. xxvii, fig. 1. 1902. Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus., vol. xxv, p. 532. 1917. Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Hus., vol. i. pt. 4,p. 369 (references). 1923. McCulloch, Pec. Austr. 3Ius., vol. xiv, p. 3, pi. i, figs. 1, 2(young). 1923. Ahl, Arch. Xaturg., Abt. A, vol. lxxxix, p. 153. Profile concave above snout, which is pointed.

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