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Reproduction in the viviparous South African clinid fish Fucomimus mus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: HG MoserDescription of the reproductive anatomy, histology and seasonality of reproduction of the viviparous clinid fish, Fucomimus mus, was based on a collection of 227 specimens from various intertidal localities off the south-east coast of South Africa. Males produce sperm throughout... -
Comparative embryogenesis of Australian and South African viviparous clinid fishes (Blennioidei, Teleostei)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L Fishelson --- Department of Zoology, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Israel O Gon --- , South AfricaThe study follows the embryogenesis of 16 species of viviparous clinid fishes (Clinidae, Teleostei), from the Cape south coast of South Africa and from Australia, with comparative remarks on the development of juveniles in oviparous species. The sperm intromitted into... -
Assessing multiple mating and reproductive skew in three species of clinid fishes (Blenniiformes: Clinidae: Clinini), in reference to multiple mating in viviparous teleosts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MJ Scheepers --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa G Gouws --- National Research Foundation–South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (NRF–SAIAB), South AfricaThis study investigated multiple mating in three species of intertidal klipfishes (family Clinidae): super klipfish Clinus superciliosus, bluntnose klipfish Clinus cottoides, and nosestripe klipfish Muraenoclinus dorsalis. These species display the rare reproductive mode of female vivipary with superfetation, a phenomenon... -
Phylogenetic relationships of African caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): Insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- The Natural History Museum, UK DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK JonathanA. Sheps --- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK BernardL. Cohen --- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UKAfrica (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies have not included any caecilians from the African mainland. Partial 12S and 16S... -
A visceral synapomorphy of Scolecomorphus Boulenger, 1883 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UK DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- University of Basel, Switzerland Hendrik Müller --- Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, GermanyWe describe the distinctive but previously overlooked shape and position of the fat bodies of some scolecomorphid caecilians. Anteriorly positioned, finger-like fat bodies projecting into the coelom from narrow bases in the genital mesenteries are found in both sexes of...