. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 52 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM identified it as such from Valenciennes' very brief description. The description is very inadequate and, translated, reads 'I did not see a tentacle over the eye . .'. It has naturally been assumed, as it happens, incorrectly, that the specimen he examined did not have a tentacle over the eye. Gilchrist & Thomp- son (1908) did not identify any of the South African species they collected and described with Valenciennes' C. heterodon. However, Barnard (1927), a
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 52 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM identified it as such from Valenciennes' very brief description. The description is very inadequate and, translated, reads 'I did not see a tentacle over the eye . .'. It has naturally been assumed, as it happens, incorrectly, that the specimen he examined did not have a tentacle over the eye. Gilchrist & Thomp- son (1908) did not identify any of the South African species they collected and described with Valenciennes' C. heterodon. However, Barnard (1927), assuming the lack of a supraorbital tentacle, and using the dorsal and anal fin counts given by Valenciennes for C. heterodon, identified a species of weed-dwelling clinid described by Gilchrist & Thompson under the name Clinus graminis as Valenciennes' heterodon. This identification has been followed by subsequent workers, so that the name heterodon has come to be applied to a species of the genus Pavoclinus (Smith, 1945, 1949). The species to which Valenciennes' type and description of C. heterodon refer is fairly common on the west coast of South Africa. Owing to its superficial similarity in fin counts to C. acuminatus it was not rediscovered until recently, and was described as a new species Clinus obtusifrons (Penrith, 1967). However, since my specimens of obtusifrons agree in every. •dv^:.- • * •<%; .'• ' * • A©of?-' •" . Amod-:-'-'. a % Fig. 19. Distribution of C. latipennis (open squares), C. robustus (open triangles), C. superciliosus (open circles), C. taurus (closed triangles), C. venustris (closed circles), C. woodi (closed squares).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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