The rare "Furred-Tongue" Uraspis uraspis (Gunther) from South Africa, and other new records from there

• Main Author: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
• Other Authors: Smith, Margaret Mary (Illustrator)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 1962
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:15001; http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019711

During the past century at odd mostly long intervals there have appeared records and descriptions of certain rather small Carangid fishes, characterised by edentate white furred tongue and inside of mouth, and sometimes by the unusual armature of the straight part of the lateral line. These have almost always been single specimens, most rather small. Until recently records have been from the western north Atlantic (5), Red Sea (1), Persian Gulf (1), Western Pacific (5), Hawaii (3), Australia (2). In 1961 Williams reported 3 small specimens from equatorial East Africa, the first from the western Indian Ocean. Recently a specimen has been found at Algoa Bay, the first from South Africa, fortunately still alive, and of particular interest as being the smallest ever described. These fishes fall in the genus Uraspis Bleeker, 1855. ABBYY FineReader 12 Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)