The West African pygmy herring Sierrathrissa leonensis : general features, visceral anatomy, and osteology

Title Variants

Alternative: Pygmy herring

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2835

By

Whitehead, Peter James Palmer

Teugels, Guy G.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1985

Notes

Title from caption.

"November 12, 1985."

"The minute freshwater herring Sierrathrissa leonensis Thys van den Audenaerde, 1969, first recorded from Sierra Leone, has sometimes been claimed as nothing more than the unmetamorphosed larva of species of Pellonula (or perhaps Cynothrissa). Fully mature specimens with ripe gonads at only 21-26 mm SL are described and the distinction from juvenile Pellonula clarified. General features of the species are given, as well as descriptions and illustrations of its visceral organs and most of the 900 bony or cartilaginous elements of its anatomy"--P. 2.

Subjects

Africa, West , Classification , Fishes , Freshwater fishes , Sierrathrissa leonensis

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2835, 1985

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 12862322