著者

今井 貞彦

出版者

鹿児島大学

雑誌

鹿児島大学水産学部紀要=Memoirs of Faculty of Fisheries Kagoshima University (ISSN:0453087X)

巻号頁・発行日

no.5, pp.91-102,

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The author has obtained numerous specimens of the flying-fishes involving the adult and juveniles of twenty species mainly from Kyfishil and its adjacent waters. The keys and main characteristics for the determination of the species of these Japanese flying-fishes are provided here. As the characteristics of flying-fishes greatly transform according to their growth, the keys to the species ought to be given for each stage of their life-history. In the present paper, Part I deals with the adult, and Part II with the young of these Japanese flying-fishes. Keys for the larva and immature fishes of them will be provided on the next parts III and IV.