. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 632 Annals of the South African Museum. age, young fishes having 2-3, large adults up to 14 wavy canals on one scale. Lat. rows 36-39, 13-14, 3-4 cheek scales, 13-14 pre- dorsal to above the hind margin of the head. Colour.—Dusky above, silvery below. Opercles dull. Localities.—Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Port Alfred, Great Fish Point, East London, Mazeppa Bay, Durban, Delagoa Bay. Also in tidal rivers. Length.—Up to 285 mm. Forty-three specimens, from 90 mm. up, examined. Types, from Knysna, in t
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 632 Annals of the South African Museum. age, young fishes having 2-3, large adults up to 14 wavy canals on one scale. Lat. rows 36-39, 13-14, 3-4 cheek scales, 13-14 pre- dorsal to above the hind margin of the head. Colour.—Dusky above, silvery below. Opercles dull. Localities.—Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Port Alfred, Great Fish Point, East London, Mazeppa Bay, Durban, Delagoa Bay. Also in tidal rivers. Length.—Up to 285 mm. Forty-three specimens, from 90 mm. up, examined. Types, from Knysna, in the Albany Museum. It is probable that this species must previously have been described, but I cannot yet with certainty assign it to any Fig. 15.—Mugil canaliculatus n. sp. (see note, fig. 3). canaliculars is very close to, if not actually identical with, hoefleri Stndnr., from Senegambia. Beyond the absence of the adipose eyelids in this latter species, there appears to be little difference between them. I have unfortunately been unable to obtain one of Steindachner's types for comparison, but Dr. Pietschmann of Vienna has kindly sent me an accurate drawing of one of the few remaining predorsal scales on the only scaled type of hoefleri, and this scale resembles those of canaliculatus in being multicanaliculate. Never- theless, as I have not seen any of these West African types, and in view of the widely separated recorded areas of these species, it would appear better to maintain both for the present. It is most likely that canaliculatus occurs in the Indo-Pacific, but I have not been able to recognise it from the descriptions of any species from this area. Barnard (loc. cit.) had identified one of the Museum specimens as speigleri Blkr., and others as auratus Bisso. I have examined a specimen of speigleri from India, and canaliculatus is quite definitely distinct. I have also examined. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pag
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