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Index
Page numbers in bold refer to photographs or illustrations.
A
Abdallah, Ahamadi – see Hussein, Bourou Achmed
Acropora 150
Agassiz, Louis 67, 67
Agathosma apiculata 21, 24, 26
aircraft 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 182, 183, 185, 186, 188, 200
Albany Museum 39, 40, 60, 243, 244, 245
Aldabra 100, 120, 128, 148, 196, 207
Alectis ciliaris 221
Allen, Gerry 228
Amaoka, Kunio 228
American Museum of Natural History 198
Amirantes 207
Ammodytes capensis 217
amphibians 77, 128, 202, 203
Anderson, Eric 228, 291, 310
anglers/angling 43, 58, 64, 117, 162, 165, 172, 216, 219, 241, 243, 258, 323
Angola 207
Anguilla mossambicus 120
Anjouan 87, 169, 174, 191
Anthony, James 196, 199
Anthropoides paradiseus 52
Arnot, Gladys 264
artists – see fish artists
Astove 207
B
bait 44, 45, 46, 144, 165, 170, 181, 219, 243
Balon, Christine 197
Balon, Eugene 197
Barbus jubbi 245
Barker, William Francis (‘Billy’) 19, 20, 101
Barnard, Keppel 37, 37, 38, 40, 42, 65, 68, 80, 83
Barnett, Peter 119, 119, 122, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 135, 136, 138, 139, 147
barracuda 135
Bathygobius william 124, 318
Bathymyrus smithi 319, 319
Bayly, Brackenbury 5
Bazaruto Island 118, 120, 207
Beck, Emily Ann – see Smith (née Beck), Emily Ann
Beira 59, 118, 208
Bell, Shirley 20, 112, 200, 236, 237, 243, 250
Bergh, Lieutenant WJ (‘Willem’) 178, 184, 200
Bickell, Dave 216, 217
bioluminescence 168
birds 128, 147
Blaauw, Commandant JPD (‘Jan’) 179, 183, 186
black fish 150
black oystercatcher 108
‘black swan’ event 88
blacktail 35, 35
blast fishing – see explosives
Bleekeria renniei 98
blue crane 52
blue duiker 108
Boltt, Robin 199
bony fishes 42, 43
Botha, PW 310, 311
Branch, George 86, 269
Branch, Margo 86
Broom, Robert 67, 93
Bruce-Bays, James 72, 73, 74, 90
Bruton, Mike 62, 82, 139, 147, 168, 178, 195, 197, 213, 235, 246, 254, 283, 287, 293, 302, 303, 304, 310, 311
buchu 21, 24, 26
butterflybreams 59
butterflyfish 62
C
Cabo Delgado 118, 119, 125, 147, 169
Calloplesiops altivelis 289
Callorhinchus capensis 88
Calypso (dive ship) 170, 196
Canthigaster smithae 318
Cape sandlance 217, 217
Cape Town 4, 30, 37, 39, 43, 65, 68, 79, 84, 85, 185, 186, 188, 265
Carangidae 285
cartilaginous fishes 313
Cartwright, GF 86, 87
Castle, Peter 264, 282, 282
catfish 240
Cave, Doris 264, 281
Center, Robert 64, 66, 71, 72, 85
Chalumna River 68, 69, 76, 88
Chlidichthys smithae 318
Choeroichthys smithi 319
cichlid fish 319
circular seabat 69
CITES 168
Cloutier, Richard 197
clupeoids 228
Coates, Michael 67
coelacanth 65, 196, 196, 285
coelacanth: African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP) 325
coelacanth: age 67, 68
coelacanth: anatomy 76, 77, 169, 196
coelacanth: banknotes 205
coela
canth: breeding 198
coelacanth: cartoon 204, 205, 212
coelacanth: Coelacanth Conservation Council 197
coelacanth: coins 94, 205, 177, 206
coelacanth: critically endangered 203
coelacanth: cultural significance 204, 205
coelacanth: depth 69, 168, 169, 170, 171, 181, 324
coelacanth: distribution 87
coelacanth: eggs 189, 197, 198
coelacanth: embryos 198
coelacanth: exhibition 199
coelacanth: extinct fishes 79
coelacanth: features 71, 76, 86, 168, 169, 181
coelacanth: fins 70
coelacanth: first coelacanth 20, 25, 48, 63–88 (including 63, 64, 74, 85), 90, 91, 96, 155, 168, 191, 192, 317, 320
coelacanth: fish number 43
coelacanth: formula 42
coelacanth: fossils 67, 76, 81, 197
coelacanth: gestation period 198
coelacanth: habitat 169, 171
coelacanth: home 94, 167, 187, 194
coelacanth: Indian Ocean coelacanth 76
coelacanth: internal organs 65
coelacanth: juveniles 198, 198
coelacanth: live 194, 195, 304
coelacanth: live-bearers 198, 240
coelacanth: living colony 287, 324
coelacanth: living fossil 65, 205
coelacanth: lobed fins 71, 72
coelacanth: multi-national collaboration 199
coelacanth: museum specimens 85, 91, 192, 195, 199
coelacanth: new research 325
coelacanth: nomenclature 78
coelacanth: ‘old fourlegs’ 72, 74, 167, 177, 194, 204, 325
coelacanth: population size 168, 171, 203
coelacanth: postage stamps 177, 205, 205
coelacanth: predator 169, 182
coelacanth: predictions 111, 117, 169, 170, 181, 194, 198, 201
coelacanth: prey 182
coelacanth: prior sightings 86, 87, 88
coelacanth: publications 199
coelacanth: puppy-dog tail 70, 71, 181
coelacanth: rewards 120, 125, 126, 152, 167, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 172, 174, 175, 191, 195, 199
coelacanth: scales 70, 71, 168, 169, 222, 223
coelacanth: sculpture 204
coelacanth: second coelacanth 167–190 (including 180, 181, 182, 187), 191, 192, 192, 199, 200, 317, 318
coelacanth: sensory bones 76
coelacanth: silver coelacanth 87, 88
coelacanth: size 70
coelacanth: specialisation 203
coelacanth: specimens known 196
coelacanth: survival 202, 237
coelacanth: symbol 206
coelacanth: tail fin 71
coelacanth: third coelacanth 191, 194
coelacanth: weight 71
coelacanth: yolksac juvenile 198
Coelacanthiformes 217
Coelacanthus 197
Coelacanthus dendrites 67
Coelacanthus granulatus 67
collecting network 215
Collection Room 215
Collette, Bruce 228
comet (marine fish) 289
common names 286
Comoros 87, 119, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 188, 191, 194, 196, 198, 304
Compagno, Len 310, 312, 313
conger eel 319, 319
conservation 108, 168, 197, 295, 297, 313
coral 135, 136, 138, 143, 144, 147, 150, 152, 203
cormorants 152
Cory, Sir George Edward 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 19, 101, 113
Coudert, Pierre 180, 182, 191
Courtenay-Latimer Hall 95
Courtenay-Latimer, Marjorie 38, 63, 64, 64, 65, 70, 71, 76, 85, 85, 89–95 (including 90, 91, 92, 93, 94), 167, 247
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves 170, 196
Couttin, Dominique 196
Cretaceous extinction 67, 202
Crosby, James H 153
Crossopterygii 65
CSIR 113, 115, 167, 209, 226, 227, 228, 235, 277, 278, 307
curation (of fish collection) 39, 40
currents 118, 119, 131, 144, 149, 169
cuskeel 319
D
dageraad 242
Dakota 6832 178, 179, 180, 182, 183, 185, 200
Dakota 6832 route 188, 188
dangerous fish 131, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139
Dar es Salaam 100, 120, 128, 148
Davies, David 251, 251
Davies, Denys 157, 160
Day, John 43, 187, 265, 269
De Klerk, FW 178
De la Harpe, Valeria 157
De Villiers, WF 223, 224, 225
Declared Cultural Institution 156, 283, 293
deep-water fishes 60, 168
Delagoa Bay 59, 118
Department of Ichthyology 114, 115, 154, 155, 209, 211, 215, 222, 264, 277, 281
Dermatolepis aldabrensis 217
dinosaurs 67, 202
Diplodus sargus 35, 35
diseases 131, 133
dodo egg 92
Dönges, Eben 10, 11, 249, 250
Drury, James 84, 85
Du Toit, Alexander Logie 7, 7
Du Toit, Colonel Louis 186
Du Toit, Lieutenant-General CL de Wet 178
duckbill stingray 219
Duerden, James 19
Duiker Rock 46, 107
Dunottar Castle (mailship) 173, 188
Durban 39, 86, 110, 134, 173, 174, 176, 179, 181, 184, 185, 188, 200, 247, 295
Dzaoudzi 174, 175, 179, 188, 200
E
East Africa 59, 111, 116, 117, 131, 169, 170, 207, 213, 226, 239, 320
East London 54, 65, 68, 71, 72, 80, 89, 94, 169
East London Museum 63, 69, 74, 84, 85, 90, 91, 167
Eastern Cape redfin 318
Ebert, David A 228
ecotourism 108
eels 132, 242, 244, 289
electricity (in fishes) 240
elf 42, 43, 165, 294, 296
endemicity 21, 166, 169
Engyprosopon smithi 319
environmental changes 203
essential oils 21, 24, 49, 111
evolution 31, 67, 76, 78, 88, 127, 177, 201, 202, 203
Experimental Fish Farm 289
explosives 104, 128, 142–152, 214
extinction 64, 65, 66, 67, 202, 204, 206
F
false stonefish 137
Featherbed Nature Reserve 98, 107, 108
feeding (fish) 45, 221
fins 41, 42, 182
fish artists 62, 129, 130, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 228, 288, 289, 310, 321, 324
fish collection 279, 281, 292, 317
fish dishes 241
fish poisons 152
fish-poison-vine 151
flatfish 285
flounder 319
‘Flying Fishcart’ 178, 179, 186
Follesø, Gerd – see Smith (née Follesø), Gerd
formalin 175, 181, 192, 209, 211, 213, 248, 281, 299, 301
fossils 64, 65, 67, 71, 76, 83, 93, 169, 201, 202, 203, 240
four-legged animals 202, 203
French territory 191
freshwater fishes 36, 37, 38, 40, 59, 239, 244, 245, 286, 289, 314, 318
Fricke, Hans 150, 168, 170, 266, 304
G
Gadus virens 220
Gardner, Brian 67
genetics 202, 203
Gess, Robert 67, 68
Geyer, AL 11
gills 181, 216
global warming 203
Glossogobius callidus 318
goby 318, 319
gombessa 170
Gon, Ofer 291, 291, 292, 310
Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus 220
Goosen, Captain Hendrik (‘Harry’) 68, 69, 69, 70, 82, 85, 93
Grahamstown 34, 58, 68, 99, 175, 185, 188, 192, 212, 257, 277, 278, 324
Grande Comore 94, 150, 191, 199
Gray, Right Reverend Robert 4
great white shark 43
grouper 124
Gymnammodytes capensis 217, 217
Gymnothorax flavimarginatus 118
H
halfscaled jawfish 319
Halieutaea fitzsimonsi 69
hammerhead sharks 143
Heemstra, Elaine 161, 164, 228
Heemstra, Phil 164, 216, 228, 228, 288, 291, 310, 314, 315, 319
Hensley, Danny 228
Hetereleotris margaretae 319
Hewitt, John 83
Hewson, Glyn 98, 130, 138, 193, 211, 263
Hexatrygon bickelli 216, 319
Hexatrygon senegasi 217
Hexatrygonidae 217
Hexatrygonoidei 217
Heydorn, Allan 251, 252, 273
Hiariako (schooner) 189
Hill, Alfred 93
Hill, Burke 199
Hofmeyr, NJ 29
Holleman, Wouter 228, 229, 308
Hubbs, Carl 110
Hunt, Eric Ernest 171, 172, 172, 174, 175, 180, 180, 181, 182, 188, 189, 191
Hussein, Achmed – see Hussein, Bourou Achmed
Hussein, Bourou Achmed 174, 182
Huxley, Sir Thomas 67
Hydrophis platurus 242
Hypsopanchax jubbi 245
I
Ibo Island 118, 119
ICHTHOS 310, 309
ichthyology network 304
incidents at sea 241
indigenous knowledge 22
indigenous plants 111
Indwe 51, 52, 60
Inhaca Island 59, 118, 120, 145, 207
Inhambane 120
Inhassoro 120
Irvin & Johnson (I&J) 68
iSimangaliso Wetland Park 287
J
Jackson, Peter 254, 254, 310
Jago submersible 150, 304
jaws 168, 181, 217
Jenkins, Canon Owen 5
Jesser Canyon 324
JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology 69, 246, 277–284 (including 280) 287, 302, 309, 310, 310
Jones, Guy Carlton 153
josef (fish) 88
Jubb, Hilda 245
Jubb, Reginald (‘Rex’) Arthur 40, 244, 244, 245, 245, 246
K
kaalpens goby 318
Kannemeyeria simocephalus 93
Kannemeyeria wilsoni 93
Kenya 100, 120, 128, 135, 207
Kerimba Islands – see Quirimbas Archipelago
Key, Bransby A 153
killifish 172
Kimberley 51
kingfishes 285
klipvis 240
Knysna loerie 108
kob 285
Kupferburger, W 10, 11, 12
KwaZulu-Natal 33, 86, 120, 165, 273, 294, 297
L
Lambert, Moira 164
Lampadena hectoris 217
Lampanyctodes hectoris 217
lanternfish 41
Larsen, Helen 228
Latimer’s Landing 95
Latimeria 68
Latimeria chalumnae 76, 77, 95, 181, 187, 217, 317
Latimeria menadoensis 95