Title: Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum
Identifier: annalsofsouth55196970sout (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: South African Museum
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Cape Town : The Museum
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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42 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM length. Head 3-4-4 in standard length, snout wedge-shaped, profile acute. Eye 3-4-2 in head. Supraorbital tentacle prominent, with flattened stalk ending in several long slender filaments. Cirrus on anterior nostril with narrow stalk and flattened, bilobed tip. Upper jaw 36-4-50% of head length. Lips moderate. Vomer toothed. Sensory pores of nasal, interorbital and mandibular series single with exception of double first pore in mandibular series; pores of remain- ing series double or multiple (fig. 14(b)).
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Fig. 14. Clinus (Clinus) berrisfordi: (a) Lateral view, female, 95 mm, S.A.M. 24221, holotype; (b) Head pore system; (c) Intromittent organ of male; (d) Lateral line. Lateral line of usually vertical pairs of pores in front to post-pectoral curve, few single pores opening above or below line, then of short separate horizontal tubes with pore at either end (fig. 14(d)). Intromittent organ of male with a long basal portion and a slender upturned tip ensheathed by a pair of bilobed ventro-lateral lips and a small pair of rounded dorsal lips (fig. 14(c)). Colouring. Reddish orange with about seven faint broad darker cross-bars. Two dark radiating lines from eye across cheek. Dark ocellate spot on shoulder. Fins reddish orange, faintly mottled and barred. Plain yellow preserved in alcohol. Location of type material. South African Museum, Cape Town. Material examined. 16 specimens, 37-5-106 mm in standard length. 16 from Onrust River Mouth, S.A.M. 24601 (holotype), S.A.M. 24221 (paratypes).

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