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03FC590B096DC10A3E19FA8CFDAB2CE8.text	03FC590B096DC10A3E19FA8CFDAB2CE8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elasmobranchii	<div><p>Subclass ELASMOBRANCHII CARCHARHINIDAE</p> <p>Up to 18 species of carcharhinids may occur off the coast of Ghana (Compagno, 1984) and four were recorded by Irvine. On average about 29 500 tonnes of ‘other’ sharks are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), the majority of which are probably in this family. For two species of Sphyrninae collected by Irvine see table 1.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B096DC10A3E19FA8CFDAB2CE8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B096DC1033E6FF9BDFD552BE6.text	03FC590B096DC1033E6FF9BDFD552BE6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Galeocerdo cuvier (Peron and Lesueur 1822)	<div><p>Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron and Lesueur, 1822)</p> <p>Irvine name. Galeocerdo arcticus (Faber). A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra (Irvine 155)— BMNH 1934.10.10.1 (one: 680 mm TL, 444 mm precaudal length).</p> <p>Distribution. All tropical seas (Compagno, 1984).</p> <p>FAMILY/Species Reference material</p> <p>CARCHARHINIDAE Sphyrna zygaena August 1938 (Irvine No specimens were found which (Linnaeus, 1758). 295). Irvine also noted known from Morocco to Senegal</p> <p>that a 210 cm male (Compagno, 1984) and Ghana,</p> <p>specimen was seen at S. mokarran, both of which are</p> <p>Accra in May 1938. 120 tonnes of hammerheads are</p> <p>2000). The main fishery species is Sphyrna tudes Tema, December 1935 Doubtful record. S. tudes is a (Valenciennes, 1822). (Irvine 298, p.p. M. J. although there is a doubtful record Probably a Field). Compagno, 1984). No specimens misidentification of suggest that he may have collected Sphyrna couardi Senegal to Congo (Compagno, Cadenat, 1950. SQUATINIDAE Squatina oculata Skin at Achimota (from No specimen available to examine Bonaparte, 1840. Christiansborg), August Morocco to Angola (Krefft, 1968</p> <p>1938 (Irvine). PRISTIDAE Pristis microdon No specimens, but The ‘saws’ should have allowed Latham, 1794. Listed as ‘saws’ at Achimota. to Angola: sometimes enters rivers Pristis perotteti Müller Latham and P. pristis (Linnaeus) and Henle. A junior West Africa (see also Poll, 1951) synonym. ELOPIDAE Elops senegalensis Sekumu Lagoon, near No specimens found. Distribution Regan, 1909. Accra, November 1938 rivers (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>(Irvine 383 pt).</p> <p>FAMILY/Species Reference material</p> <p>SYNGNATHIDAE ? Hippocampus Labadi, January 1936 Specimens not found. We tentatively punctulatus Guichenot, (A. P. Brown 2); Accra, that H. deanei of Duméril is a junior 1853. Listed as September 1938 (Irvine deanei was a synonym of H. Hippocampus deani 345). The Labadi Distribution: in the eastern Atlantic Duméril. A junior specimen was caught in Verde Islands and islands of the synonym. a local bottom-net, and (Dawson in Quéro et al., 1990: 658</p> <p>the one from Accra was</p> <p>taken over a mile from</p> <p>the shore in floating</p> <p>brown seaweeds. POMATOMIDAE Pomatomus saltatrix Prampram, September No specimen found. Distribution: (Linnaeus, 1766). 1938 (Irvine 326). Islands and Morocco southwards</p> <p>warm seas of the western Atlantic</p> <p>721–722). On average about 2400</p> <p>region each year (FAO, 2000). LUTJANIDAE Lutjanus dentatus Ningo Lagoon, May No specimens found. Distribution (Duméril, 1858). Listed 1930 (Irvine 91). (Allen, 1985). as Lutjanus eutactus Bleeker. A junior synonym (type locality: Ashantee).</p> <p>FAMILY/Species Reference material</p> <p>LABRIDAE Coris atlantica Prampram, June 1930 No specimens found. Distribution (Günther, 1862). Listed (Irvine 88); Prampram, the Cape Verde Islands to Congo as Coris julis July 1938 (Irvine 279). West African populations of Coris (Linnaeus). Probably a Mediterranean, Azores and European misidentification. PERCOPHIDAE Bembrops sp. Irvine reported a The specimen could not be located</p> <p>specimen 22 cm long Nelson (1996) reported four species</p> <p>(landed at Prampram caudimacula Steindachner, 1876,</p> <p>by fishermen who had cadenati Das and Nelson, 1996.</p> <p>taken their canoes out indicates that the West African</p> <p>of sight of land), which describing. The reported occurrence</p> <p>was sent to the caudimacula is surprising and needs</p> <p>BM(NH) by Miss V. J.</p> <p>Foote. TRICHIURIDAE Trichiurus lepturus Accra, January 1930 Specimen not found. Distribution Linnaeus, 1758. (Irvine 25). Elsewhere found in tropical and</p> <p>1993). About 30 000 tonnes of this</p> <p>making it an important fishery GOBIIDAE Bathygobius soporator Ada, estuary of River No specimens found. Distribution (Valenciennes, 1837). Volta, November 1938 brackish water. In the eastern</p> <p>(Irvine 365); mouth of islands (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>River Ancobra, January the region (Brito and Miller, 2001</p> <p>1939 (Akpabla A 21).</p> <p>FAMILY/Species Comments</p> <p>GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE</p> <p>Ginglymostoma cirratum Irvine noted: ‘This species has been recorded from</p> <p>(Bonnaterre, 1788). various parts of the West African coast, and almost certainly occurs off the coast of the Gold Coast [Ghana]’ and so did not himself see this species. Distribution: in the tropical eastern Atlantic recorded from the Cape Verde Islands to Gabon. Also occurs in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific (Compagno, 1984).</p> <p>CHAETODONTIDAE</p> <p>Chaetodon striatus Linnaeus, Doubtful record. C. striatus is a western Atlantic species</p> <p>1758. which does not occur off West Africa (Allen, 1981).</p> <p>Irvine most likely was referring to Chaetodon robustus Günther, 1860 as it is the most common butterflyfish in Ghana. Irvine noted that he did not collect C. striatus and his colour description (which is correct for C.</p> <p>striatus, but does not fit any of the three tropical West African butterflyfish) must have been taken from a book.</p> <p>The two other butterflyfishes which occur off Ghana are C. marcellae Poll, 1950 and C. hoefleri Steindachner, 1883.</p> <p>LABRIDAE</p> <p>Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, Irvine noted that this species had been recorded from the</p> <p>1758). ‘ Guinea coast’ by Bleeker and from various parts of the coast of tropical West Africa and suggested that it would almost certainly be found eventually on the coast of Ghana. Distribution: Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Portugal southwards to Gabon (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>XIPHIIDAE</p> <p>Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, Irvine had no doubt that this species was to be found off</p> <p>1758. Ghana. He reported specimens up to 1.5 m in length having been caught at Prampram, and noted it was sometimes taken in seines near Kpone. He also noted that to the east of Accra, between the years 1934 and 1937, a swordfish was reported in the local papers to have transfixed a man through the head and killed him. On average about 4300 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000). Distribution: cosmopolitan in warm seas (Nakamura, 1985).</p> <p>Istiophorus albicans (Latreille, Specimens were seen by Irvine in 1936 (January), and at</p> <p>1804). Listed as Istiophorus the same time three lorry loads, each fish estimated to be</p> <p>americanus Cuvier and about 1.5 m in length, were seen by Mr A. P. Brown at</p> <p>Valenciennes. A junior Labadi. Distribution: tropical and subtropical Atlantic</p> <p>synonym. (Nakamura, 1985). On average about 1100 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> <p>GOBIIDAE</p> <p>Porogobius schlegelii No specimens deposited by Irvine although he described</p> <p>(Günther, 1861). Listed as its coloration in some detail. He noted that the type of</p> <p>Acentrogobius schlegelii the species in the Leiden Museum [Nationaal</p> <p>(Günther). Natuurhistorisch Museum], Holland, came from Boutry, Ghana. Distribution: coast of tropical West Africa from Cape Verde Islands and Guinea-Bissau to Congo: entering rivers (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>FAMILY/Species Comments</p> <p>Chonophorus lateristriga Irvine reported it as being seen in the River Tano and (Duméril, 1858).Listed as River Volta. Distribution: brackish and freshwaters; Awaous guineensis (Peters). A lagoons, estuaries from Senegal to Angola (Quéro et al., junior synonym. 1990). MUGILIDAE Liza ramada (Risso, 1826). Doubtful record. Irvine noted: ‘This species has not been Listed as Mugil capito Cuvier. collected, and may not actually occur in Ghana, but A junior synonym. young specimens recorded by Fowler [Fowler, 1919: 251]</p> <p>from Ashanti as Liza ramada (Risso) may belong here’.</p> <p>Distribution: Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from</p> <p>Scandinavia to Cape Verde: entering freshwater (Quéro</p> <p>et al., 1990). Unlikely to occur in Ghana. Liza grandisquamis Irvine noted that ‘This species was not collected, but (Valenciennes, 1836). Listed Bleeker [Bleeker, 1863: 92, as Mugil schlegeli] and Fowler as Mugil grandisquamis Cuvier [Fowler, 1919: 253] have both recorded specimens from and Valenciennes. ‘‘Ashanti’’.’ Distribution: coast of tropical West Africa</p> <p>from Senegal to Cameroon: entering rivers (Quéro et al.,</p> <p>1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B096DC1033E6FF9BDFD552BE6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0964C1033E2EFA3DFD442FD8.text	03FC590B0964C1033E2EFA3DFD442FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Mustelus mustelus mustelus Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Mustelus mustelus Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Irvine name. Mustelus canis (Mitchill). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, July to August 1938 (Irvine 294)— BMNH 1938.12.15.1 (one: 556 mm precaudal length); Accra, August 1938 (Irvine)— BMNH 2001.5.2.10 (one: 222 mm precaudal length).</p> <p>Distribution. Recorded in the eastern Atlantic from the British Isles to South Africa and the Mediterranean (Compagno, 1984).</p> <p>On average about 180 tonnes of Mustelus spp. are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0964C1033E2EFA3DFD442FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0964C1033E43FCC2FBCC2D97.text	03FC590B0964C1033E43FCC2FBCC2D97.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhizoprionodon acutus (Ruppell 1837)	<div><p>Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837)</p> <p>Irvine name. Scoliodon terrae -novae (Richardson). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1929 (Irvine 14)— BMNH 1930.3.24.1 (one: 440 mm precaudal length); Accra, 1935 (Irvine 297); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 322)— BMNH 1939.7.12.1 (one: 610 mm precaudal length); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 337).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic recorded from Madeira and Mauritania to Angola. Also found in the Indo-West Pacific from South Africa and the Red Sea eastwards to Japan and Australia (Krefft, 1968; Compagno, 1984).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0964C1033E43FCC2FBCC2D97	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0964C1033EB1FB2DFC882C68.text	03FC590B0964C1033EB1FB2DFC882C68.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Triakidae J.E.Gray 1851	<div><p>TRIAKIDAE</p> <p>The smooth-hounds were included in the Carcharhinidae by Irvine but are generally considered a separate family (Nelson, 1994). One species was recorded by Irvine (see below); another species Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758) may also occur off the mainland coast of tropical West Africa, although primarily an anti-tropical species (Compagno, 1984).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0964C1033EB1FB2DFC882C68	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0967C1003ED7FDC2FD012A39.text	03FC590B0967C1003ED7FDC2FD012A39.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhinobatidae	<div><p>RHINOBATIDAE</p> <p>Five species appear to occur off the coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1951; Stehmann in Quéro et al., 1990: 23–27). Irvine recorded three species from Ghana and noted [correctly] that the Mediterranean species Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758) had been recorded several times from West Africa and might well occur off the coast of Ghana.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0967C1003ED7FDC2FD012A39	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0967C1003E5CFBD7FB792C63.text	03FC590B0967C1003E5CFBD7FB792C63.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhinobatos albomaculatus Norman 1930	<div><p>* Rhinobatos albomaculatus Norman, 1930</p> <p>Irvine name. Rhinobatus albomaculatus Norman.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, 1930 (Irvine 10), (Irvine 32)— BMNH 1930.3.24.2 (H  : 570 mm TL), BMNH 1930.8.26.4-5 (one: 562 mm TL), BMNH 1930.8.26.6–7 (three embryos: 160–168 mm TL); Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 98)— BMNH 1930.8.30.1 (one: 191 mm TL); Accra, March 1938 (Irvine 290).</p> <p>Distribution. Gulf of Guinea to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>Described as a new species by Norman (1930) on the basis of Irvine’s material. He used -us rather than -os as the generic ending and Irvine followed his precedent.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0967C1003E5CFBD7FB792C63	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0967C1003D8CFCC9FDD82D0E.text	03FC590B0967C1003D8CFCC9FDD82D0E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhinobatos cemiculus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817	<div><p>Rhinobatos cemiculus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817</p> <p>Irvine name. Rhinobatus rasus Garman. A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 79)— BMNH 1930.8.26.2 (one: 360 mm TL).</p> <p>Distribution. Eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Angola and in the Mediterranean Sea (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0967C1003D8CFCC9FDD82D0E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0967C1003E28FA02FD7D2FD8.text	03FC590B0967C1003E28FA02FD7D2FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhinobatos irvinei Norman 1931	<div><p>* Rhinobatos irvinei Norman, 1931</p> <p>Irvine name. Rhinobatus irvinei Norman.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram (Irvine 87)— BMNH 1930.8.26.3 (H  : 573 mm TL, male); Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 178)— BMNH 1934.10.12.1 (one female: 674 mm TL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 271).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>Described by Norman (1931: 352, figure 1) on the basis of Irvine’s material, again using -us for the generic ending.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0967C1003E28FA02FD7D2FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0967C1003ED7FF28FBDB280F.text	03FC590B0967C1003ED7FF28FBDB280F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torpedinidae	<div><p>TORPEDINIDAE</p> <p>At least four species occur off the coast of tropical West Africa (Capapé and</p> <p>Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 55–58). One was collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0967C1003ED7FF28FBDB280F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0967C1003D83FED7FE472B24.text	03FC590B0967C1003D83FED7FE472B24.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torpedo (Tetronarce) mackayana Metzelaar 1919	<div><p>Torpedo (Tetronarce) mackayana Metzelaar, 1919</p> <p>Irvine name. Torpedo nobiliana Bonaparte. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 60)— BMNH 1930.8.26.1 (one: 291 mm TL); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 340). Axim, Ghana, presented by Willoughby P. Lowe — BMNH 1911.6.30.5 (one: 160 mm TL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Poll, 1951; Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0967C1003D83FED7FE472B24	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C1013EC4FDE5FE252A11.text	03FC590B0966C1013EC4FDE5FE252A11.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dasyatidae	<div><p>DASYATIDAE</p> <p>About eight species in three genera occur on the coast of tropical West Africa (Capapé and Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 59–63), two of which were collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C1013EC4FDE5FE252A11	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C1013E32FCB7FE0E2D02.text	03FC590B0966C1013E32FCB7FE0E2D02.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dasyatis margarita (Gunther 1870)	<div><p>Dasyatis margarita (Günther, 1870)</p> <p>Irvine name. Trygon margarita Günther.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 12 A); Accra, February 1929 (Irvine 12 B)— BMNH 1930.3.24.3 (one: 711 mm TL, 211 mm DW); Accra, January 1938 (Irvine 394).</p> <p>Distribution. Coasts of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C1013E32FCB7FE0E2D02	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C1013E33FBA1FDA82C54.text	03FC590B0966C1013E33FBA1FDA82C54.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Trygon pastinaca (Linnaeus).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 393)— BMNH 1939.7.12:2 (one: 910 mm TL, 361 mm DW).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola and the Cape Verde Islands. Also known from the Mediterranean and northwards along the coast of Europe to southern Ireland and the western Baltic as well as from South Africa (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C1013E33FBA1FDA82C54	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C1013ECDFAF0FDDE2F05.text	03FC590B0966C1013ECDFAF0FDDE2F05.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gymnuridae Fowler 1934	<div><p>GYMNURIDAE</p> <p>The butterfly rays were included in the Dasyatidae by Irvine but are generally considered a separate family (Nelson, 1994). Two species occur off tropical West Africa (Poll, 1951; McEachran and Séret in Quéro et al., 1990: 64–66) and both were recorded by Irvine.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C1013ECDFAF0FDDE2F05	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C1013E45FE3BFC9E2B5F.text	03FC590B0966C1013E45FE3BFC9E2B5F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Raja (Raja) miraletus Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Raja (Raja) miraletus Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, August 1938 (Irvine 292)— BMNH 1938.12.15.2 (one male: 465 mm TL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to South Africa (Krefft, 1968; Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C1013E45FE3BFC9E2B5F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C1013EA1FF28FD6B286D.text	03FC590B0966C1013EA1FF28FD6B286D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rajidae	<div><p>RAJIDAE</p> <p>Some four or five species occur in coastal waters in the Gulf of Guinea area of tropical West Africa (Stehmann in Quéro et al., 1990: 29–50). Several other species in the family occur offshore in deep water (over 200 m depth) on the continental slope. On average about 10 500 tonnes of Rajiformes are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C1013EA1FF28FD6B286D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0966C11E3E70F9A2FE11285D.text	03FC590B0966C11E3E70F9A2FE11285D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gymnura micrura (Bloch and Schneider 1801)	<div><p>Gymnura micrura (Bloch and Schneider, 1801)</p> <p>Irvine name. Pteroplatea micrura (Schneider).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 31)— BMNH 1930.3.24.4 and BMNH 1930.8.26.9 (two: 133 mm TL, 183 mm DW; 170 mm TL, 235 mm DW); Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 353)— BMNH 1963.8.9.3 (one: 234 mm TL, 338 mm DW).</p> <p>Distribution. Off the mainland coast of West Africa from Senegal to the Congo (Quéro et al., 1990). Also known from New England to Rio Janeiro in the western Atlantic.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0966C11E3E70F9A2FE11285D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0979C11E3EB4FAD9FE422CDF.text	03FC590B0979C11E3EB4FAD9FE422CDF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elopidae	<div><p>ELOPIDAE</p> <p>Two species occur off the coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1953; Whitehead in Quéro et al., 1990: 118–119) and both were recorded from Ghana by Irvine (see also table 1).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0979C11E3EB4FAD9FE422CDF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0979C11E3E36FEE6FE112B75.text	03FC590B0979C11E3E36FEE6FE112B75.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Pteroplatea altavela (Linnaeus).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 352, p.p. Nortey)— BMNH 1939.7.12.3 (one: 376 mm TL, 544 mm DW).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990). Also known from Massachusetts to La Plata River in the western Atlantic.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0979C11E3E36FEE6FE112B75	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0979C11E3ED0FD0EFE522AAE.text	03FC590B0979C11E3ED0FD0EFE522AAE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Myliobatidae	<div><p>MYLIOBATIDAE</p> <p>At least four species occur off the coast of tropical West Africa (McEachran and Séret in Quéro et al., 1990: 67–70), one of which was definitely recorded from Ghana by Irvine, who thought that two others might also occur. Irvine listed his specimen of the Bull ray, Pteromylaeus bovinus, as Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) but noted that the former species had been recorded from Senegal and probably occurred on the coast of Ghana. He further suggested [correctly] that it was possible that the spotted eagle ray, Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790), would also be found.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0979C11E3ED0FD0EFE522AAE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0979C11E3D90FC76FBC72DC6.text	03FC590B0979C11E3D90FC76FBC72DC6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817)	<div><p>Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)</p> <p>Irvine name. Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus). Misidentification, despite correct key and figure which is clearly P. bovinus.</p> <p>Reference material. Ghana (Irvine 55)— BMNH 1930.8.26.8 (one: 691 mm TL, 304 mm DW).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic from Portugal to South Africa. Also recorded from the Mediterranean and SW Indian Ocean (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0979C11E3D90FC76FBC72DC6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0979C11F3E26FA60FDA829FD.text	03FC590B0979C11F3E26FA60FDA829FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Elops lacerta Valenciennes 1846	<div><p>Elops lacerta Valenciennes, 1846</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 19)— BMNH 1930.3.24.5 (one: 232 mm SL); Ada, October 1938 (Irvine 362)— BMNH 2001.5.2.11 (one: 158 mm SL); Sekumu Lagoon, near Accra, November 1938 (Irvine 383 pt)— BMNH 2001.5.2.12 (one: 217 mm SL). Angaswi, Volta estuary, Ghana, coll. Buxton — BMNH 1949.10.20.2 (one: 109.4 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coasts of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola: entering rivers</p> <p>(Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0979C11F3E26FA60FDA829FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0978C11F3EBDFD23FCE12A9B.text	03FC590B0978C11F3EBDFD23FCE12A9B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Clupeidae	<div><p>CLUPEIDAE</p> <p>Five marine species occur off the coast of Ghana and neighbouring countries (Poll, 1953; Whitehead, 1985) and four were recorded by Irvine along with a primarily freshwater species (see table 1). On average about 830 000 tonnes of clupeids are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000) making this family the most important in terms of catch.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0978C11F3EBDFD23FCE12A9B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0978C11F3ED5FE82FE2028BC.text	03FC590B0978C11F3ED5FE82FE2028BC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Megalopidae	<div><p>MEGALOPIDAE</p> <p>This family was included in the Elopidae by Irvine. A single species occurs off the coast of West Africa (Poll, 1953; Saldanha and Whitehead in Quéro et al., 1990: 120–121).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0978C11F3ED5FE82FE2028BC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0978C11F3E4CFE43FC262B9C.text	03FC590B0978C11F3E4CFE43FC262B9C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes 1847	<div><p>Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847</p> <p>Reference material. Sekumu Lagoon, near Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 129 B)— BMNH 1932.2.27.1-2 (one specimen only: 105 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Both sides of the tropical Atlantic. Regular occurrence from Senegal to Angola in the eastern Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0978C11F3E4CFE43FC262B9C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0978C11F3E32FC20FE332C59.text	03FC590B0978C11F3E32FC20FE332C59.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sardinella aurita Valenciennes 1847	<div><p>Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 23); Teshi, June 1930 (Irvine 104)— BMNH 1930.8.26.25 (one: 188 mm SL); Prampram, September 1939 (Irvine 406)— BMNH 1939.7.12.4 (one: 106.5 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.13 (one: 77.5 mm SL); off shore at Tema, Ghana, coll. D. Pennack — BMNH 1973.4.26.11–13 (three: 115.5–149.6 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from southern Portugal to Angola. Also found in the Mediterranean, western Atlantic and Japan (Whitehead, 1985).</p> <p>On average about 360 000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it the most important fishery species in terms of catch. Catches have risen substantially in recent years and current catch rates may not be sustainable.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0978C11F3E32FC20FE332C59	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0978C11F3E37FAE6FE332FD8.text	03FC590B0978C11F3E37FAE6FE332FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sardinella maderensis (Lowe 1839)	<div><p>Sardinella maderensis (Lowe, 1839)</p> <p>Irvine name. Sardinella cameronensis Regan. A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Teshi, June 1930 (Irvine 103)— BMNH 1930.8.26.24 (one: 174 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola (Whitehead, 1985). Also occurs in the Mediterranean.</p> <p>On average about 105 000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it the one of the most important fishery species in terms of catch. Catches have recently doubled and current catch rates may not be sustainable.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0978C11F3E37FAE6FE332FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097BC11C3ECAFC49FCE62D57.text	03FC590B097BC11C3ECAFC49FCE62D57.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Engraulidae Gill 1861	<div><p>ENGRAULIDAE</p> <p>A single species is known from the West African coast (Whitehead et al., 1988) and was reported under the Clupeidae by Irvine.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097BC11C3ECAFC49FCE62D57	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097BC11C3E4EFB18FE022CA7.text	03FC590B097BC11C3E4EFB18FE022CA7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Engraulis encrasicholus (Linnaeus).</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 405)— BMNH 1939.7.12.5–7 (four: 63.2–77.0 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Norway to Angola (Whitehead et al., 1988).</p> <p>On average about 109 000 tonnes of this species are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it one of the most important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097BC11C3E4EFB18FE022CA7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097BC11C3E3AFF28FB792B57.text	03FC590B097BC11C3E3AFF28FB792B57.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bowdich 1825)	<div><p>Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bowdich, 1825)</p> <p>Irvine name. Ethmalosa dorsalis (Cuvier and Valenciennes). A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 69)— BMNH 1930.8.26.14 (one: 112.7 mm SL); Ningo lagoon, May 1930 (Irvine 89)— BMNH 1930.8.26.11–13 (three: 64.2–71.2 mm SL); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 327); Keta, November 1938 (Irvine 377); Accra, August 1938 (Irvine 256)— BMNH 2001.5.2.40 (one: 152 mm SL); Freetown, Sierra Leone (no Irvine number)— BMNH 1930.8.26.10 (one: 195 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from western Sahara to Angola; lagoons and brackish water (Whitehead, 1985).</p> <p>On average about 148 000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it one of the most important fishery species in the region.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097BC11C3E3AFF28FB792B57	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097BC11C3E08FD19FC112A87.text	03FC590B097BC11C3E08FD19FC112A87.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ilisha africana (Bloch 1795)	<div><p>Ilisha africana (Bloch, 1795)</p> <p>Irvine name. Ilisha melanota Derscheid A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 71)— BMNH 1930.8.26.15–17 (three: 96.7–114.2 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coasts and estuaries of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Whitehead, 1985).</p> <p>On average about 7800 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097BC11C3E08FD19FC112A87	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097BC11C3EDDFA68FE202FD8.text	03FC590B097BC11C3EDDFA68FE202FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Synodontidae	<div><p>SYNODONTIDAE</p> <p>One species (see below) was recorded by Irvine and appears to occur all along the mainland Gulf of Guinea coast of West Africa. Another, Saurida brasiliensis Norman, 1935, appears to be anti-tropical in the eastern Atlantic and is recorded from Gabon to Angola and Mauritania to Senegal (Sulak in Quéro et al., 1990: 365–370).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097BC11C3EDDFA68FE202FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11D3EA6FE5BFC0E2B7F.text	03FC590B097AC11D3EA6FE5BFC0E2B7F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ariidae	<div><p>ARIIDAE</p> <p>Three species (Arius heudeloti Valenciennes, 1840, A. latiscutatus (discussed below) and A. parkii Günther, 1864) occur in the sea off tropical West Africa and one was recorded by Irvine. On average about 22 000 tonnes of sea catfishes are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11D3EA6FE5BFC0E2B7F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11D3E25FD05FBE22A90.text	03FC590B097AC11D3E25FD05FBE22A90.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Arius latiscutatus Gunther 1864	<div><p>Arius latiscutatus Günther, 1864</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, December 1929 (Irvine 5); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 340)— BMNH 1944.2.9.8 (one: 255 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa, from northern Senegal to the Congo and Angola; often entering rivers (Taylor in Quéro et al., 1990: 230–234).</p> <p>Irvine also collected the freshwater Arius gigas Boulenger, 1911 (Atimpoku, River Volta, May (Irvine 233)— BMNH 1969.3.17.8 (one: 185 mm SL).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11D3E25FD05FBE22A90	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11D3E17FA90FCAA2CE5.text	03FC590B097AC11D3E17FA90FCAA2CE5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lycodontis afer (Bloch 1795)	<div><p>Lycodontis afer (Bloch, 1795)</p> <p>Irvine name. Gymnothorax vicinus (Castelnau). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 15)— BMNH 1930.3.24.6 (one: 618 mm TL); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 320)— BMNH 1939.7.12.9 (one: approx. 753 mm TL).</p> <p>Distribution. Found off the coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola and at the Cape Verde Islands (Blache, 1967c).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11D3E17FA90FCAA2CE5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11D3E12FBA1FB302DF4.text	03FC590B097AC11D3E12FBA1FB302DF4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Muraena robusta Osorio 1909	<div><p>Muraena robusta Osorio, 1909</p> <p>Irvine name. Muraena helena Linnaeus. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, July 1938 (Irvine 251)— BMNH 1938.12.15.3 (one: approx. 830 mm TL, 152 vertebrae).</p> <p>Distribution. Eastern Atlantic from Mauritania to Angola (Blache, 1967a).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11D3E12FBA1FB302DF4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11D3ECCFC34FB662D02.text	03FC590B097AC11D3ECCFC34FB662D02.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Muraenidae	<div><p>MURAENIDAE</p> <p>At least six species occur along the mainland coast of tropical West Africa</p> <p>(Blache, 1967a, 1967b, 1967c) and four were recorded by Irvine (see also table 1).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11D3ECCFC34FB662D02	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11D3E4FFF28FD1C288D.text	03FC590B097AC11D3E4FFF28FD1C288D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinocephalus myops (Forster 1801)	<div><p>Trachinocephalus myops (Forster, 1801)</p> <p>Reference material. Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 166)— BMNH 1934.10.12.3 (one: 223 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 277)— BMNH 1938.12.15.5 (one: 167 mm SL); Accra, February 1939 (Irvine 404).</p> <p>Distribution. Warm parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans (except eastern Pacific). In eastern Atlantic found from Cape Verde Islands and Senegal to Namibia (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11D3E4FFF28FD1C288D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097AC11A3EFFF982FC8A29FD.text	03FC590B097AC11A3EFFF982FC8A29FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Heterenchelyidae Regan 1912	<div><p>HETERENCHELYIDAE</p> <p>At least five species of heterenchelyid eels are known from the tropical eastern Atlantic, of which two, in the genus Pythonichthys and two in the genus Panturichthys are reported to occur in the Gulf of Guinea area (Poll, 1953; Blache, 1968). These eels grow to 0.5–1.5 m in length but are rarely caught and reported. A single Irvine</p> <p>specimen, which Irvine did not mention in his book, was found in the Natural History Museum collections in London.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097AC11A3EFFF982FC8A29FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097DC11A3D9BFA91FDA92CC5.text	03FC590B097DC11A3D9BFA91FDA92CC5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dalophis cephalopeltis (Bleeker 1863)	<div><p>Dalophis cephalopeltis (Schlegel MS, in Bleeker, 1863)</p> <p>Irvine name. Sphagebranchus cephalopeltis Bleeker.</p> <p>Reference material. Near mouth of River Densu, 1936 (Irvine 211, p.p. Mr Lester)— BMNH 1937.2.6.4 (one: 347 mm TL, 185 vertebrae).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Liberia to Pointe Noire, Congo (Blache and Bauchot, 1972).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097DC11A3D9BFA91FDA92CC5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097DC11A3ED2FCB5FCD52AC1.text	03FC590B097DC11A3ED2FCB5FCD52AC1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ophichthidae	<div><p>OPHICHTHIDAE</p> <p>At least 16 species occur in shallow waters on the coast of mainland West Africa and further species are recorded from deep waters (200–500 m depth) offshore (Blache, 1971; Blache and Cadenat, 1971; Blache and Bauchot, 1972; Blache and Saldanha, 1972). Two were collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097DC11A3ED2FCB5FCD52AC1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097DC11A3E6CFC67FCB02DF3.text	03FC590B097DC11A3E6CFC67FCB02DF3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pisodonophis semicinctus (Richardson 1848)	<div><p>Pisodonophis semicinctus (Richardson, 1848)</p> <p>Irvine name. Ophichthus semicinctus (Richardson).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 11)— BMNH 1930.3.24.7–10 (four: 504–675 mm TL); Accra, 1934 (Irvine 300, p.p. Woodward); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 398).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola (Blache and Saldanha, 1972). Also in the Mediterranean.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097DC11A3E6CFC67FCB02DF3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097DC11B3EBEFA62FCB029FD.text	03FC590B097DC11B3EBEFA62FCB029FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Belonidae	<div><p>BELONIDAE</p> <p>Four species may occur off the coast of Ghana (Collette and Parin, 1970), although only one of these (Ablennes hians) was reported by Irvine. The other species which may be expected along the West African mainland coast are Strongylura senegalensis (Valenciennes, 1846), Tylosurus acus rafale Collette and Parin, 1970 and Tylosurus crocodilus crocodilus (Péron and Lesueur, 1821) (Collette and Parin</p> <p>in Quéro et al., 1990: 592–597). On average about 1000 tonnes of needlefishes are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097DC11B3EBEFA62FCB029FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097CC11B3E33FE86FDE128F6.text	03FC590B097CC11B3E33FE86FDE128F6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ablennes hians (Valenciennes 1846)	<div><p>Ablennes hians (Valenciennes, 1846)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 117)— BMNH 1932.2.27.3 (one: 685 mm SL, 524 mm BL).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known for the Cape Verde Islands and Dakar to southern Angola. Elsewhere found in all tropical and subtropical seas (Collette and Parin, 1970).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097CC11B3E33FE86FDE128F6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097CC11B3ECAF980FD6B2FD8.text	03FC590B097CC11B3ECAF980FD6B2FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Exocoetidae Risso 1827	<div><p>EXOCOETIDAE</p> <p>Seven species would be expected to occur off the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Parin and Gibbs in Quéro et al., 1990: 583–591) but only one was collected by Irvine. On average about 800 tonnes of flyingfishes are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097CC11B3ECAF980FD6B2FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097CC11B3EE0FD89FBB62BAF.text	03FC590B097CC11B3EE0FD89FBB62BAF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hemiramphidae T.N.Gill 1859	<div><p>HEMIRAMPHIDAE</p> <p>Three species are found in coastal waters off the tropical West African mainland (Collette, 1965). A further two species are found in offshore waters (Collette and Parin in Quéro et al., 1990: 579–582). On average about 300 tonnes of halfbeaks are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097CC11B3EE0FD89FBB62BAF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097CC11B3E29FB59FD6C2CFF.text	03FC590B097CC11B3E29FB59FD6C2CFF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hemiramphus balao Lesueur 1821	<div><p>Hemiramphus balao Lesueur, 1821</p> <p>Irvine name. Not listed in book although specimen found.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 269)— BMNH 1963.10.18.1 (one: 297 mm SL, 173 mm BL). Listed in Collette (1965) as ‘probably Ghana’. (Provenance of specimen was found on a typed list from Irvine dated September 1938, which is in the Fish Section correspondence archives.)</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from the Canary Islands and also from Ivory Coast southwards to Angola. Also known in the western Atlantic from New York to Brazil (Collette, 1965).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097CC11B3E29FB59FD6C2CFF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097CC11B3E59FD71FDDC2D87.text	03FC590B097CC11B3E59FD71FDDC2D87.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Material listed under both Hemirhamphus brasiliensis and Hyporhamphus calabaricus (Günth.) = H. picarti (Valenciennes, 1847). The only material listed by Irvine under H. calabaricus (Irvine 59) is a specimen of Hemiramphus brasiliensis.</p> <p>Reference material. Keta, November 1938 (Irvine 376)— BMNH 1939.7.12.8 (one: 211 mm SL, 137 mm BL); Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 59, listed as Hyporhamphus calabaricus)— BMNH 1930.8.26.18 (one: 220 mm SL, 143 mm BL). Both BMNH specimens were listed in Collette (1965); the first with an incorrect registration number (1939.7.17.8).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from Cape Verde Islands and Senegal to Angola. Also known in the western Atlantic from Massachusetts to Rio de Janeiro (Collette, 1965).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097CC11B3E59FD71FDDC2D87	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1183E62FF28FC5C286F.text	03FC590B097FC1183E62FF28FC5C286F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cheilopogon melanurus (Valenciennes 1847)	<div><p>Cheilopogon melanurus (Valenciennes, 1847)</p> <p>Irvine name. Cypsilurus lutkeni (Jordan and Evermann). A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 37)— BMNH 1930.3.24.11 (one: 236 mm SL); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 389).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from Senegal to Nigeria. Also occurs in the western central Atlantic (Gibbs and Staiger, 1970).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1183E62FF28FC5C286F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1183E35FDFFFCB22A3D.text	03FC590B097FC1183E35FDFFFCB22A3D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fistularia tabacaria Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Fistularia tabacaria Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, 1936 (Irvine 207); Teshi, February 1936 (A. P. Brown 6)— BMNH 1937.2.6.1 (one: 587 mm SL, 829 mm TL).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from Cape Blanc to Angola (including the Cape Verde Islands and islands of the Gulf of Guinea). Also occurs in the western central Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1183E35FDFFFCB22A3D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1183ED0FE36FCAD2B26.text	03FC590B097FC1183ED0FE36FCAD2B26.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Fistulariidae Stark 1828	<div><p>FISTULARIIDAE</p> <p>Two species occur along the coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1953; Fristzche in Quéro et al., 1990: 654–655). In addition to Fistularia tabacaria reported by Irvine, there is F. petimba Lacepède, 1803.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1183ED0FE36FCAD2B26	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1183EE7FCC4FE252AF3.text	03FC590B097FC1183EE7FCC4FE252AF3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Holocentridae	<div><p>HOLOCENTRIDAE</p> <p>One or possibly two species occur on the coast of mainland tropical West Africa (Poll, 1954; Ben-Tuvia in Quéro et al., 1990: 627–628) of which one was recorded by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1183EE7FCC4FE252AF3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1183E45FB8DFC252C0A.text	03FC590B097FC1183E45FB8DFC252C0A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sargocentron hastatum (Cuvier 1829)	<div><p>Sargocentron hastatum (Cuvier, 1829)</p> <p>Irvine name. Holocentrus hastatus Cuvier and Valenciennes.</p> <p>Reference material. Locality? (Irvine 119); Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 173)— BMNH 1934.10.12.8 (one: 201 mm SL); Accra, 1936 (Irvine 205)— BMNH 2001.5.2.14 (one: 171 mm SL); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 323), Irvine (no number or locality).</p> <p>Distribution. Along the coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola, including the Cape Verde Islands (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1183E45FB8DFC252C0A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1183EC6FADBFE5A2F01.text	03FC590B097FC1183EC6FADBFE5A2F01.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serranidae Swainson 1839	<div><p>SERRANIDAE</p> <p>About 18 species occur off the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Smith in Quéro et al. 1990: 695–706; Maugé in Quéro et al., 1990: 707–710; Heemstra, 1991; Heemstra and Randall, 1993) and 10 were recorded by Irvine. On average about 16 500 tonnes of serranids are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1183EC6FADBFE5A2F01	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097FC1193E32F9A0FB53281D.text	03FC590B097FC1193E32F9A0FB53281D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cephalopholis nigri (Gunther 1859)	<div><p>Cephalopholis nigri (Günther, 1859)</p> <p>Irvine name. Petrometopon nigri (Günther).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 34)— BMNH 1930.3.24.12 (one: 90.0 mm SL); Winneba, March 1930 (Irvine 172)— BMNH 1934.10.12.10 (one:</p> <p>188 mm SL). Accra, February 1939 (Irvine 403)— BMNH 1939.7.12.11 (one: 172 mm</p> <p>SL), BMNH 1969.2.17.23 (one: 108.6 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Heemstra, 1991).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097FC1193E32F9A0FB53281D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097EC1193E67FEA7FC5E2B16.text	03FC590B097EC1193E67FEA7FC5E2B16.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes 1828)	<div><p>Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes, 1828)</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, 35 miles east of Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 82)— BMNH 1930.8.26.26 (one: 218 mm SL); Kpone, September 1936 (p.p. M. J. Field); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 280).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from West Sahara to Angola, including islands of Cape Verde and the Gulf of Guinea (Heemstra, 1991).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097EC1193E67FEA7FC5E2B16	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097EC1193D81FB59FBC82CBF.text	03FC590B097EC1193D81FB59FBC82CBF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809)	<div><p>Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809)</p> <p>Reference material. Botiano Lagoon, near Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 73); Accra, June 1931 (Irvine 140); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 250)— BMNH 1938.12.15.7 (one: 294 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola. Also occurs in the Mediterranean, along the Atlantic coasts of southern Spain and Portugal and at the Canary and Cape Verde Islands (Heemstra and Randall, 1993).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097EC1193D81FB59FBC82CBF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097EC1193E49FDAEFC942A8E.text	03FC590B097EC1193E49FDAEFC942A8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epinephelus costae (Steindachner 1878)	<div><p>Epinephelus costae (Steindachner, 1878)</p> <p>Irvine name. Epinephelus alexandrinus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Misidentification; holotype of Serranus Alexandrinus Valenciennes, 1828 was fairly recently found (Heemstra, 1991) to be a specimen of Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, June 1931 (Irvine 142); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 249)— BMNH 1938.12.15.6 (one: 445 mm SL); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 402)— BMNH 1939.7.12.10 (one: 258 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean, Cape Verde Islands and coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola (Heemstra, 1991). Widely recorded as Epinephelus alexandrinus, for example, Bauchot and Blanc (1961b).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097EC1193E49FDAEFC942A8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097EC1193E59FC56FCA92D87.text	03FC590B097EC1193E59FC56FCA92D87.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epinephelus goreensis (Valenciennes 1830)	<div><p>Epinephelus goreensis (Valenciennes, 1830)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, April (?) 1930 (Irvine 43)— BMNH 1930.8.26.23 (one: 270 mm SL); Prampram, May 1930 (Irvine 83); Accra, July 1938 (Irvine 284)— BMNH 1938.12.15.9 (specimen not found in BMNH collections).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Angola as well as Canary and Cape Verde Islands (Heemstra, 1991).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097EC1193E59FC56FCA92D87	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B097EC1163E3AFA40FD10287F.text	03FC590B097EC1163E3AFA40FD10287F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe 1834)	<div><p>Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834)</p> <p>Irvine name. Epinephelus gigas (Brünnich). Species described by Brünnich not clear (nomen dubium) as no type specimen (Heemstra, 1991). Specimens of ‘ E. gigas ’ from West Africa reported by Poll (1954) are E. haifensis Ben-Tuvia, 1953 with which E. marginatus has often been confused (Heemstra and Randall, 1993).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, July 1938 (Irvine 283)— BMNH 1938.12.15.8 (one: 278 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from southern British Isles to South Africa. Also known from Brazil (Heemstra and Randall, 1993).</p> <p>Widely recorded under the name ‘ Epinephelus guaza ’ (e.g. Bauchot and Blanc, 1961b), however, this name is now regarded as a nomen dubium (Heemstra, 1991). On average about 575 tonnes of this species are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B097EC1163E3AFA40FD10287F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0971C1163E21FB06FE472C61.text	03FC590B0971C1163E21FB06FE472C61.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anthias anthias (Linnaeus 1758) anthias (Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Anthias anthias (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 126)— BMNH 1932.2.27:4 (one: 171 mm SL); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 335)— BMNH 2001.5.2.15 (one: 166 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.16 (one: 157 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Portugal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0971C1163E21FB06FE472C61	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0971C1163ECEFA2CFDA82FD8.text	03FC590B0971C1163ECEFA2CFDA82FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Grammistini Bleeker 1857	<div><p>GRAMMISTINI</p> <p>The soapfishes have been classed in the family Grammistidae in many recent texts but are now considered to belong within the serranid subfamily Epinephelinae (Baldwin and Johnson, 1993) with the genus Rypticus being placed in the tribe Grammistini. They were included in the Serranidae by Irvine. Two species are known from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa, of which one, Rypticus saponaceus, was collected by Irvine. The other, R. subbifrenatus Gill, 1861, is small (up to 16 cm) and rarely observed.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0971C1163ECEFA2CFDA82FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0971C1163E3BFD59FDB02D4B.text	03FC590B0971C1163E3BFD59FDB02D4B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serranus accraensis (Norman 1931)	<div><p>* Serranus accraensis (Norman, 1931)</p> <p>Irvine name. Neanthias accraensis Norman. The H specimen (Irvine 66) was reported separately in the book under ‘Sea perch— Anthias (?) sp.’ which suggests some failure of communication between Norman and Irvine.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 66)— BMNH 1930.8.26.28 (H  : 117.7 mm SL); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 263); Accra, July 1938 (Irvine 312)— BMNH 1938.12.15.11–12 (two: 97.1, 102.6 mm SL); Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 349, p.p. Mr Nortey).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Ghana to Angola (Poll, 1954; Bauchot and Blanc, 1961b).</p> <p>Described by Norman (1931: 354, figure 2) as a new species Neanthias accraensis from Irvine’s material.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0971C1163E3BFD59FDB02D4B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0971C1163E29FE33FD002B94.text	03FC590B0971C1163E29FE33FD002B94.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 42)— BMNH 1930.8.26.27 (one: 227 mm SL); Accra, June 1930 (Irvine 105); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 253)— BMNH 1938.12.15.10 (one: 187 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from British Isles to Angola; Red Sea (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0971C1163E29FE33FD002B94	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0970C1173E76FB5CFD1E2CDD.text	03FC590B0970C1173E76FB5CFD1E2CDD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Branchiostegus semifasciatus (Norman 1931)	<div><p>* Branchiostegus semifasciatus (Norman, 1931)</p> <p>Irvine name. Latilus semifasciatus Norman. Reference material. Accra, February 1930 (Irvine 44)— BMNH 1930.8.26.44 (H: 246 mm SL); Accra, BMNH 1938.12.15.14–15 (two: 214, 228 mm SL). Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola Africa (Quéro et al., 1990). Described as a new species, Latilus semifasciatus, from Irvine’s material by Norman (1931: 356, figure 3).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0970C1173E76FB5CFD1E2CDD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0970C1173EC1FA61FE0E2FD8.text	03FC590B0970C1173EC1FA61FE0E2FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Carangidae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>CARANGIDAE</p> <p>At least 22 species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1954; Bauchot and Blanc, 1963; Smith-Vaniz et al. in Quéro et al., 1990: 729–755). Some 12 of these were reported by Irvine from Ghana. On average about 40 000 tonnes of carangids are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0970C1173EC1FA61FE0E2FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0970C1173EE0FC7BFB2E2D82.text	03FC590B0970C1173EE0FC7BFB2E2D82.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Malacanthidae (Nelson 1994)	<div><p>MALACANTHIDAE</p> <p>Listed under the Blanquillos (Latilidae) by Irvine and more recently by others in the Branchiostegidae. Now this group is generally combined with the Malacanthinae in the family Malacanthidae (Nelson, 1994). A single species is found on the coast of West Africa (Poll, 1954; Dooley in Quéro et al., 1990: 719).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0970C1173EE0FC7BFB2E2D82	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0970C1173ED8FE4DFB5C2BAB.text	03FC590B0970C1173ED8FE4DFB5C2BAB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Priacanthidae Gunther 1859	<div><p>PRIACANTHIDAE</p> <p>Two species may occur off the mainland coast of West Africa (Bauchot and Blanc, 1961b). In addition to Priacanthus arenatus reported by Irvine from Ghana, Heteropriacanthus cruentatus Lacepède, 1801 may also be present in the region (Bauchot and Blanc, 1961b), although Starnes (1988) noted that it was ‘not definitely recorded from African continental waters’. On average about 15 tonnes of priacanthids are recorded as being caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0970C1173ED8FE4DFB5C2BAB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0970C1173E2FFD76FB962AA7.text	03FC590B0970C1173E2FFD76FB962AA7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier 1829	<div><p>Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier, 1829</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, 35 miles east of Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 81)— BMNH 1930.8.26.29 (one: 218 mm SL); Christiansborg, Accra, July 1938 (Irvine 311)— BMNH 2001.5.2.17 (one: 129.8 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Western Sahara to Namibia. Also occurs in the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic (Starnes, 1988).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0970C1173E2FFD76FB962AA7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0970C1173D8FFF28FCA128B0.text	03FC590B0970C1173D8FFF28FCA128B0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rypticus saponaceus (Bloch and Schnneider 1801)	<div><p>Rypticus saponaceus (Bloch and Schnneider, 1801)</p> <p>Reference material. Winneba (Irvine 171)— BMNH 1934.10.12.9 (one: 161 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 278); (Irvine 51)— BMNH 1930.8.30.2 (one: 177 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Both sides of the tropical Atlantic and on the tropical central Atlantic islands. Occurs from Senegal to the Congo and in the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0970C1173D8FFF28FCA128B0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0973C1143E1CFACCFC402CE8.text	03FC590B0973C1143E1CFACCFC402CE8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Caranx crysos (Mitchill 1815)	<div><p>Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 95); mouth of Ancobra River, January 1939 (Akpabla A 16)— BMNH 1939.7.12.14 (one: 134 mm FL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Angola. Also found in the Mediterranean and western Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0973C1143E1CFACCFC402CE8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0973C1143E24FB9FFC112C39.text	03FC590B0973C1143E24FB9FFC112C39.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Caranx hippos (Linnaeus 1766)	<div><p>Caranx hippos (Linnaeus, 1766)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 53)— BMNH 1930.8.26.49–50 (two: 91.5, 139.1 mm SL); Amedica, River Volta, May 1938 (Irvine 237); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 316)— BMNH 1939.7.12.12 (specimen not found in the BMNH collections); mouth of Ancobra River, January 1939 (Akpabla A 9).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to southern Angola. Also known from the Mediterranean and western Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 3700 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0973C1143E24FB9FFC112C39	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0973C1143E1FFC8EFE0E2ACA.text	03FC590B0973C1143E1FFC8EFE0E2ACA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Caranx senegallus Cuvier 1833	<div><p>Caranx senegallus Cuvier, 1833</p> <p>Irvine name. Caranx africanus Steindachner. A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 94)— BMNH 1930.8.26.53–54 (two: 93.8, 104.9 mm FL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0973C1143E1FFC8EFE0E2ACA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0973C1143E3DFDD9FDA82BFB.text	03FC590B0973C1143E3DFDD9FDA82BFB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hemicaranx bicolor (Gunther 1860)	<div><p>Hemicaranx bicolor (Günther, 1860)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 29)— BMNH 1930.8.26.47–48 (two: 44.5, 47.5 mm SL); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 344).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from at least Sierra Leone to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0973C1143E3DFDD9FDA82BFB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0973C1153D8FF9BDFD0C29FD.text	03FC590B0973C1153D8FF9BDFD0C29FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Alectis alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817)	<div><p>Alectis alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)</p> <p>Irvine name. Scyris alexandrinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire). Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 21)— BMNH 1930.3.24.18–19</p> <p>(two: 75.5, 80.6 mm SL); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 258); Keta, November 1938</p> <p>(Irvine 375)—BMNH 1939.7.12.13 (one: 170 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and coast of West Africa from Morocco to southern</p> <p>Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0973C1153D8FF9BDFD0C29FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0972C1153E65FDE3FBE52A9B.text	03FC590B0972C1153E65FDE3FBE52A9B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Linnaeus 1776)	<div><p>Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Linnaeus, 1776)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 27)— BMNH 1930.3.24.21–24 (six: 55.5–66.5 mm SL); Accra, 1935 (Irvine 307); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 14)— BMNH 1939.7.12.15 (one: 193 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola. Also occurs in subtropical and tropical western Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 6100 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species in terms of catch.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0972C1153E65FDE3FBE52A9B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0972C1153E15FC20FC112DBA.text	03FC590B0972C1153E15FC20FC112DBA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lichia amia (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Lichia amia (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 96)— BMNH 1930.8.30.7 (one: 201 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Morocco to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 1700 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0972C1153E15FC20FC112DBA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0972C1153E06FE82FC112B5C.text	03FC590B0972C1153E06FE82FC112B5C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Selene dorsalis (Gill 1862)	<div><p>Selene dorsalis (Gill, 1862)</p> <p>Irvine name. Vomer setapinnis (Mitchill). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 22)— BMNH 2001.5.2.18–19 (two: 68.5, 75.0 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic recorded from Cape Verde Islands and coast of West Africa from Senegal to Namibia. Also reported from Madeira and Portugal (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 2100 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0972C1153E06FE82FC112B5C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0972C1153E3CFB46FC9F2CD9.text	03FC590B0972C1153E3CFB46FC9F2CD9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Trachinotus glaucus (Linnaeus). A junior synonym (based on page priority).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1929 (Irvine 8)?— BMNH 1934.10.12.15 (one: 88.2 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.20 (one: 135 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola and offshore islands (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0972C1153E3CFB46FC9F2CD9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0972C1153E1FFA67FE472FD8.text	03FC590B0972C1153E1FFA67FE472FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinotus teraia Cuvier 1832	<div><p>Trachinotus teraia Cuvier, 1832</p> <p>Irvine name. Trachinotus falcatus (Linnaeus). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. South of Amedica, Volta River (Irvine 243)— BMNH 1938.12.15.27 (one: 104 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Known from the Cape Verde Islands southward to Gabon (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0972C1153E1FFA67FE472FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0975C1123E3EFC25FBA52D76.text	03FC590B0975C1123E3EFC25FBA52D76.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, April 1930 (Irvine 47)— BMNH 1930.8.26.80</p> <p>(one: 424 mm SL); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 392)— BMNH 1939.7.12.17 (one:</p> <p>276 mm SL). Distribution. Cosmopolitan in warm seas (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0975C1123E3EFC25FBA52D76	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0975C1123EE6FD6AFCA72A95.text	03FC590B0975C1123EE6FD6AFCA72A95.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Coryphaenidae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>CORYPHAENIDAE</p> <p>Two species probably occur along the West African coast (Tortonese in Quéro et al., 1990: 756–757) and Irvine recorded one species (see below) from Ghana. The other species is C. equiselis Linnaeus, 1758.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0975C1123EE6FD6AFCA72A95	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0975C1123EC5FB04FDC72C57.text	03FC590B0975C1123EC5FB04FDC72C57.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lutjanidae	<div><p>LUTJANIDAE</p> <p>Six species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Allen, 1985) and Irvine recorded all six (see also table 1) although specimens of only four species were located. On average about 4800 tonnes of snappers are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0975C1123EC5FB04FDC72C57	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0975C1123E1EFAE6FB782FD8.text	03FC590B0975C1123E1EFAE6FB782FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lutjanus agennes Bleeker 1863	<div><p>Lutjanus agennes Bleeker, 1863</p> <p>Irvine name. Listed partly under the correct name above and also (Irvine 276) as Lutjanus modestus Bleeker. There appears to be some confusion over whether L. modestus Bleeker, 1863 is a junior synonym of L. endecacanthus Bleeker, 1863 (Lloris and Rucabado in Quéro et al., 1990: 773–779) or of L. agennes as suggested by Allen (1985).</p> <p>Reference material. Ningo, May 1930 (Irvine 97)— BMNH 1930.8.26.32 (one: 109 mm SL). Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 276)— BMNH 1938.12.15.20 (one: 272 mm SL, listed as L. modestus).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Allen, 1985).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0975C1123E1EFAE6FB782FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0975C1123E40FE4BFB982BD3.text	03FC590B0975C1123E40FE4BFB982BD3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch 1793)	<div><p>Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793)</p> <p>Irvine name. Not mentioned in Irvine’s book although he collected specimens.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 28)— BMNH 1930.8.26.51–52 (two: 138, 142 mm FL).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic recorded from the Cape Verde Islands and along the coast of West Africa from southern Senegal to Angola. Elsewhere, worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0975C1123E40FE4BFB982BD3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0975C1123E2AFF28FDA828B2.text	03FC590B0975C1123E2AFF28FDA828B2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinotus goreensis Cuvier 1832	<div><p>Trachinotus goreensis Cuvier, 1832</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1929 (Irvine 9)— BMNH 1930.3.24.20 (one: 135 mm SL); Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 63)— BMNH 1930.8.26.55–57 (three: 65.2–124.2 mm SL); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 325)— BMNH 1939.7.12.16 (one: 97.4 mm SL); mouth of Ancobra River, January 1939 (Akpabla A 13).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0975C1123E2AFF28FDA828B2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0974C1133E23FD2AFC4F2A75.text	03FC590B0974C1133E23FD2AFC4F2A75.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apsilus fuscus Valenciennes 1830	<div><p>Apsilus fuscus Valenciennes, 1830</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 313)— BMNH 1939.7.12.21 (one: 272 mm SL), BMNH 1939.7.12.22 (one: 113.5 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola. Also Cape Verde Islands and islands of the Gulf of Guinea (Allen, 1985).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0974C1133E23FD2AFC4F2A75	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0974C1133E5BFBC7FCA92CB7.text	03FC590B0974C1133E5BFBC7FCA92CB7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker 1863)	<div><p>Eucinostomus melanopterus (Bleeker, 1863)</p> <p>Irvine name. Gerres melanopterus Bleeker.</p> <p>Reference material. Ningo Lagoon (Irvine 58)— BMNH 1930.8.26.79 (one: 111.8 mm SL), (Irvine 90); Keta, November 1938 (Irvine 379)— BMNH 1939.7.12.23 (one: 126 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola.</p> <p>Irvine also noted that Gerres nigri Günther, 1859 had been recorded from ‘Guinea’ and from the Ivory Coast, and probably occurred on the coast of Ghana. The latter species is believed to be present along the coast of West Africa from Senegal to the Congo (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0974C1133E5BFBC7FCA92CB7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0974C1133EBDFC05FCC82D36.text	03FC590B0974C1133EBDFC05FCC82D36.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gerreidae Bleeker 1859	<div><p>GERREIDAE</p> <p>Irvine placed the mojarras in the Leiognathidae. Two species are known from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Roux in Quéro et al., 1990: 781–782) and one was recorded from Ghana by Irvine.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0974C1133EBDFC05FCC82D36	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0974C1133ECCFA47FB352FD8.text	03FC590B0974C1133ECCFA47FB352FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Haemulidae	<div><p>HAEMULIDAE</p> <p>Placed in Pomadasidae [sic], which is a junior synonym of Haemulidae, by Irvine. On average about 45 000 tonnes of grunts are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000). Ten species have been recorded from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Roux in Quéro et al., 1990: 783–788), of which five were reported by Irvine from Ghana (see also table 1). The characters separating species do not appear to be well quantified and this family needs to be revised for the eastern Atlantic.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0974C1133ECCFA47FB352FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0974C1133E3BFF28FB782893.text	03FC590B0974C1133E3BFF28FB782893.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lutjanus fulgens (Valenciennes 1830)	<div><p>Lutjanus fulgens (Valenciennes, 1830)</p> <p>Irvine name. Lutjanus maltzani (Steindachner). A junior synonym. Reference material. Prampram, May 1930 (Irvine 86)— BMNH 1930.8.26.33</p> <p>(one: 144 mm SL); Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 118)— BMNH 1932.2.27.6 (one:</p> <p>203 mm SL); Winneba (Irvine 174)—BMNH 1934.10.12.11 (one: 172 mm SL). Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Allen, 1985).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0974C1133E3BFF28FB782893	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0974C1133E4FFE2BFB782B94.text	03FC590B0974C1133E4FFE2BFB782B94.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lutjanus goreensis (Valenciennes 1830)	<div><p>Lutjanus goreensis (Valenciennes, 1830)</p> <p>Irvine name. Lutjanus guineensis Bleeker. A junior synonym (type locality: Ashantee).</p> <p>Reference material. Ningo Lagoon (Irvine 92)— BMNH 1930.8.26.34 (one: 59.1 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Allen, 1985).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0974C1133E4FFE2BFB782B94	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0977C1103E5DFBFFFC5B2C9E.text	03FC590B0977C1103E5DFBFFFC5B2C9E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachydeuterus auritus Valenciennes 1831	<div><p>Brachydeuterus auritus Valenciennes, 1831</p> <p>Reference material. Locality? (Irvine 52)— BMNH 1930.8.26.36–38 (four: 54.2–90.9 mm SL); Prampram, May 1930 (Irvine 93)— BMNH 1930.8.26.39–40 (two: 115.2, 129.4 mm SL); locality? (Irvine 157)— BMNH 1934.10.10.13–14 (two: 123.3, 139.4 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Mauritania to Angola: entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 23 000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0977C1103E5DFBFFFC5B2C9E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0977C1103E59FA21FCE22FD8.text	03FC590B0977C1103E59FA21FCE22FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Parakuhlia macrophthalmus (Osorio 1894)	<div><p>Parakuhlia macrophthalmus (Osorio, 1894)</p> <p>Irvine name. Parakuhlia boulengeri Pellegrin. A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 343)— BMNH 1939.7.12.20 (one: 94.4 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Guinea to Angola (Maugé and Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 711).</p> <p>This species has been place in the family Kuhliidae by several recent authors but is now thought to be a haemulid (Nelson, 1994).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0977C1103E59FA21FCE22FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0977C1103E37FF28FC552890.text	03FC590B0977C1103E37FF28FC552890.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pomadasys incisus (Bowdich 1825)	<div><p>Pomadasys incisus (Bowdich, 1825)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 30); Accra, March 1930 (?) (Irvine 57)— BMNH 1930.8.26.31 (one: 119 mm SL); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 342)— BMNH 1939.7.12.18 (one: 180 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Western Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Morocco to Angola including the offshore islands (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0977C1103E37FF28FC552890	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0977C1103E28FC15FD032D24.text	03FC590B0977C1103E28FC15FD032D24.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pomadasys peroteti (Cuvier 1830)	<div><p>Pomadasys peroteti (Cuvier, 1830)</p> <p>Reference material. Mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 19 pt)— BMNH 1939.7.12.19 (one: 128.5 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola, entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0977C1103E28FC15FD032D24	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0977C1103E22FE32FC782A49.text	03FC590B0977C1103E22FE32FC782A49.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pomadasys rogerii (Cuvier 1830)	<div><p>Pomadasys rogerii (Cuvier, 1830)</p> <p>Irvine name. Pomadasys jubelini (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, April (?) 1930 (Irvine 48)— BMNH 1930.8.26.30 (one: 150 mm SL); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 19 pt)— BMNH 2001.5.2.21 (one: 123.2 mm SL); locality? (Irvine 195)— BMNH 2001.5.2.22 (one: 218.7 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>All the specimens listed by Irvine under P. jubelini, which could be located, appear to be P. rogerii. The latter species is stated to have about 55 lateral-line scales whereas P. jubelini is reported to have about 45 (Roux, 1981). This character and the arrangement of chin pores (a pair of small pores preceding a larger median one) place the specimens in P. rogerii rather than P. jubelini.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0977C1103E22FE32FC782A49	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0976C1113DDAFE75FC112A4D.text	03FC590B0976C1113DDAFE75FC112A4D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudotolithus (Pseudotolithus) senegalensis (Valenciennes 1833)	<div><p>Pseudotolithus (Pseudotolithus) senegalensis (Valenciennes, 1833)</p> <p>Irvine names. Cynoscion senegalla (Cuvier and Valenciennes) —misidentification. Cynoscion macrognathus (Bleeker) —a junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 35)— BMNH 1930.8.26.35 (one: 165 mm SL, listed under Cynoscion senegalla); Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 122)— BMNH 1930.3.24.15 (one: 378 mm SL, listed under Cynoscion macrognathus); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 260); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 262).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Western Sahara to Angola, rare north of Senegal (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 2500 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0976C1113DDAFE75FC112A4D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0976C1113D8BFC01FE5C2C63.text	03FC590B0976C1113D8BFC01FE5C2C63.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudotolithus (Pseudotolithus) typus Bleeker 1863	<div><p>Pseudotolithus (Pseudotolithus) typus Bleeker, 1863</p> <p>Irvine name. Not listed but the specimen (Irvine 259) is referred to in notes to the previous species as follows: ‘A specimen from Accra, taken in May 1938 (Irvine 259), was identified at the British Museum as Cynoscion nebulosus (C. &amp; V.). It is doubtful, however, whether this American species occurs in West Africa, and the specimen in question probably belonged either to this species [Cynoscion senegalla (Cuvier), valid as Pseudotolithus senegalla: Sasaki (1993)] or to the succeeding one [Cynoscion macrognathus (Bleeker), a junior synonym of P. senegalensis]’. Irvine was right in rejecting the British Museum identification but wrong in linking it to either of the other two species.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 259)— BMNH 1939.7.12.42 (one: 201 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola (scarce north of Cape Verde).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0976C1113D8BFC01FE5C2C63	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0976C1113E13FA2EFC112FD8.text	03FC590B0976C1113E13FA2EFC112FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pteroscion peli (Bleeker 1863)	<div><p>Pteroscion peli (Bleeker, 1863)</p> <p>Irvine name. Larimus peli Bleeker.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 68)— BMNH 1930.8.26.41–43 (three: 80.1–102.1 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Bauchot, 1966a).</p> <p>On average about 1000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0976C1113E13FA2EFC112FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0976C1113EB9FF28FBEC28B9.text	03FC590B0976C1113EB9FF28FBEC28B9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sciaenidae	<div><p>SCIAENIDAE</p> <p>Many members of the family are of considerable economic importance, and are known in Ghana as ‘Cassava fishes’. On average about 67 000 tonnes of sciaenids are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making them very important demersal fishery species. Eight species were recorded from Ghana by Irvine (see also table 1) and some 14 species occur along the Gulf of Guinea coast of West Africa (Chao and Trewavas in Quéro et al., 1990: 813–826; Bauchot, 1966a).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0976C1113EB9FF28FBEC28B9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0949C12E3ECCF9C3FCE52FD8.text	03FC590B0949C12E3ECCF9C3FCE52FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lethrinidae	<div><p>LETHRINIDAE</p> <p>One species is found on the coast of West Africa, all others come from the</p> <p>Indo-Pacific region (Carpenter and Allen, 1989).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0949C12E3ECCF9C3FCE52FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0949C12E3EB7FBA9FDD42D8E.text	03FC590B0949C12E3EB7FBA9FDD42D8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Mullidae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>MULLIDAE</p> <p>Only one species appears to be known from the mainland coast of tropical West</p> <p>Africa (Bauchot, 1966a).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0949C12E3EB7FBA9FDD42D8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0949C12E3D9BFF28FCB428CE.text	03FC590B0949C12E3D9BFF28FCB428CE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudotolithus (Fonticulus) elongatus (Bowdich 1825)	<div><p>Pseudotolithus (Fonticulus) elongatus (Bowdich, 1825)</p> <p>Irvine name. Sciaena nigrita (Cuvier and Valenciennes). A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 123)— BMNH 1932.2.27.8 (one: 270 mm SL); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 261); Labadi, January 1936 (A. P. Brown 5).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola: entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 10 500 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year, making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0949C12E3D9BFF28FCB428CE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0949C12E3DACFD94FE472A03.text	03FC590B0949C12E3DACFD94FE472A03.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudotolithus (Pinnacorvina) epipercus (Bleeker 1863)	<div><p>Pseudotolithus (Pinnacorvina) epipercus (Bleeker, 1863)</p> <p>Irvine name. Sciaena epipercus (Bleeker).</p> <p>Reference material. Anomabu, June 1930 (Irvine 108)— BMNH 1930.8.30.4 (one: 258 mm SL); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 391)— BMNH 1939.7.12.24 (one: 201 mm SL); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 20)— BMNH 1939.7.12.41 (one: 164 mm SL). All three specimens are stored in a single jar.</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Guinea to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0949C12E3DACFD94FE472A03	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0949C12E3E47FB54FC1C2F22.text	03FC590B0949C12E3E47FB54FC1C2F22.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pseudupeneus prayensis (Cuvier 1829)	<div><p>Pseudupeneus prayensis (Cuvier, 1829)</p> <p>Irvine name. Upeneus prayensis Cuvier and Valenciennes.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, February 1930 (Irvine 50)— BMNH 1930.8.26.45 (one: 157 mm SL); Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 170)— BMNH 1934.10.12.13 (one: 197 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.23 (one: 140 mm SL); Keta, November 1938 (Irvine 378, dried specimens from market)— BMNH 2001.5.2.24 (one: 113 mm SL); Accra, BMNH 1939.7.12.25 (one: 119.5 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Mauritania to southern Angola including offshore islands (Bauchot, 1966a).</p> <p>On average about 400 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a significant fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0949C12E3E47FB54FC1C2F22	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0949C12E3E4EFCA3FC0B2D18.text	03FC590B0949C12E3E4EFCA3FC0B2D18.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes 1843	<div><p>Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes, 1843</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, February 1930 (Irvine 54)— BMNH 1930.8.30.5 (one: 163 mm SL), BMNH 1930.3.24.14 (one: 152 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Morocco to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990). Also found in the western Mediterranean and along coast of Europe northwards to the Bay of Biscay (Bauchot, 1966a).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0949C12E3E4EFCA3FC0B2D18	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0948C12F3E4CFB90FB892C05.text	03FC590B0948C12F3E4CFB90FB892C05.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentex angolensis Poll and Maul 1953	<div><p>Dentex angolensis Poll and Maul, 1953</p> <p>Irvine name. Dentex macrophthalmus (Blocher) [sic] (in part). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 129 A)— BMNH 1932.2.27.7 (one: 176 mm SL, redet. D. maroccanus).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>One of the specimens listed by Irvine under D. macrophthalmus appears to be this species. On average about 600 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a significant fishery species.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0948C12F3E4CFB90FB892C05	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0948C12F3E09FADDFCB02FD8.text	03FC590B0948C12F3E09FADDFCB02FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentex congoensis Poll 1954	<div><p>Dentex congoensis Poll, 1954</p> <p>Irvine name. Dentex macrophthalmus (Blocher) [sic] (in part) and Dentex cuninghami [sic] Regan (in part). Misidentifications.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra (Irvine 39)— BMNH 1930.3.24.13 (one: 116 mm SL); Accra, June 1930 (Irvine 115)— BMNH 1930.8.26.81–82 (two: 96.1, 122.0 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.25 (one: 134 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>Specimens listed by Irvine under both D. cuninghami (a junior synonym of Pagellus bellottii, see table 1) and D. macrophthalmus appear to be this species. On average about 190 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a significant fishery species.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0948C12F3E09FADDFCB02FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0948C12F3E31FC87FC322AF3.text	03FC590B0948C12F3E31FC87FC322AF3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentex gibbosus (Rafinesque 1810)	<div><p>Dentex gibbosus (Rafinesque, 1810)</p> <p>Irvine name. Dentex filosus Valenciennes. A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 273)— BMNH 1938.12.15.16–17 (two: 255, 272 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola. Also occurs off Portugal and in the Mediterranean (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0948C12F3E31FC87FC322AF3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0948C12F3E43FF28FE5A28CD.text	03FC590B0948C12F3E43FF28FE5A28CD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lethrinus atlanticus Valenciennes 1830	<div><p>Lethrinus atlanticus Valenciennes, 1830</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, 1930 (Irvine 45); Winneba, 1933 (Irvine 175)— BMNH 1934.10.12.12 (one: 216 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Gabon including Cape Verde Islands and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea (Carpenter and Allen, 1989).</p> <p>In recent years the fishery for this species appears to have expanded and now about 250 tonnes on average of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0948C12F3E43FF28FE5A28CD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0948C12F3EA9FD9AFC302BE0.text	03FC590B0948C12F3EA9FD9AFC302BE0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sparidae	<div><p>SPARIDAE</p> <p>On average about 50 000 tonnes of sea breams are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000). Some 12 species have been recorded from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1954; Bauchot and Hureau in Quéro et al., 1990: 790–812) of which nine were recorded from Ghana by Irvine (see also table 1). The characters separating the various species of Dentex do not appear to be well quantified and a review of this genus for the eastern Atlantic is required.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0948C12F3EA9FD9AFC302BE0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094BC12C3E10FBE5FE5A2C96.text	03FC590B094BC12C3E10FBE5FE5A2C96.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Boops boops (Linnaeus 1758) boops (Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 264); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 314)— BMNH 2001.5.2.28 (one: 141 mm SL); Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 347); Labadi, January or June? 1936 (A. P. Brown 3).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Norway to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 50 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094BC12C3E10FBE5FE5A2C96	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094BC12C3E48FF28FDDD2B32.text	03FC590B094BC12C3E48FF28FDDD2B32.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dentex macrophthalmus (Blocher 1791)	<div><p>? Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch, 1791)</p> <p>Irvine name. Dentex macrophthalmus (Blocher) [sic].</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 348, p.p. Mr Nortey)— BMNH 2001.5.2.26 (one damaged: 114 mm SL, not identifiable).</p> <p>Distribution. Anti-equatorial distribution reported along the coast of West Africa from Morocco to Cape Verde and from Congo to Namibia. Also recorded from the Canary Islands, Mediterranean and off Portugal (Quéro et al., 1990). This species does not appear to occur in the Gulf of Guinea and this unidentifiable material, like the rest of Irvine’s ‘ Dentex macrophthalmus ’ specimens, is probably either D. angolensis or D. congoensis, neither of which species were described at the time (Poll and Maul, 1953; Poll, 1954).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094BC12C3E48FF28FDDD2B32	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094BC12C3E32FDCBFE472D54.text	03FC590B094BC12C3E32FDCBFE472D54.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pagellus bellottii Steindachner 1882	<div><p>Pagellus bellottii Steindachner, 1882</p> <p>Irvine name. Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Kormantin, May 1930 (Irvine 99)— BMNH 1930.8.26.83 (one: 165 mm SL).? Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 275)— BMNH 1938.12.15.19 (one: 164 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.27 (one: 150 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola. Also recorded from the southwestern Mediterranean (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 7000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p> <p>Irvine noted ‘A specimen from Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 275), was identified by the British Museum authorities as Pagellus sp. This seemed to be different from P. erythrinus, and somewhat resembled Dentex cuninghami ’. Irvine was correct in this as Dentex cuninghamii Regan, 1905 (H  : BMNH 1905.2.24.6, 191.7 mm SL, coast of Angola) is a junior synonym of Pagellus bellottii Steindachner (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094BC12C3E32FDCBFE472D54	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094BC12C3E18FA27FBA62FD8.text	03FC590B094BC12C3E18FA27FBA62FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pagrus africanus Akazaki 1962	<div><p>Pagrus africanus Akazaki, 1962</p> <p>Irvine name. Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Locality?, November (?) 1930 (Irvine 127)— BMNH 1932.2.27.9 (one: 214 mm SL); Accra (?), January 1939 (Irvine 400)— BMNH 1939.7.12.26 (one: 248 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. West African coast from Senegal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 2000 tonnes of Pagrus, much of which is probably this and the next species, are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094BC12C3E18FA27FBA62FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094AC12D3EF0FD8BFB792BB3.text	03FC590B094AC12D3EF0FD8BFB792BB3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Centracanthidae	<div><p>CENTRACANTHIDAE</p> <p>Two species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1954; Heemstra in Quéro et al., 1990: 768–772), both of which were collected by Irvine. On average about 5 tonnes of Spicara are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094AC12D3EF0FD8BFB792BB3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094AC12D3EF4FAC4FD672CD7.text	03FC590B094AC12D3EF4FAC4FD672CD7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Monodactylidae D.S.Jordan & Evermann 1898	<div><p>MONODACTYLIDAE</p> <p>One species has been recorded from the tropical West African coast (Poll, 1954;</p> <p>Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 830).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094AC12D3EF4FAC4FD672CD7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094AC12D3E34FA67FDE02FD8.text	03FC590B094AC12D3E34FA67FDE02FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Monodactylus sebae (Cuvier 1829)	<div><p>Monodactylus sebae (Cuvier, 1829)</p> <p>Irvine name. Psettus sebae Cuvier and Valenciennes.</p> <p>Reference material. Onikan Pond, Lagos, Nigeria, coll. F. R. Irvine— BMNH 1949.3.17.31 (one: 38.6 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Cape Verde to Angola: entering rivers (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094AC12D3E34FA67FDE02FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094AC12D3E64FF28FDA828F2.text	03FC590B094AC12D3E64FF28FDA828F2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pagrus caeruleostictus (Valenciennes 1830)	<div><p>Pagrus caeruleostictus (Valenciennes, 1830)</p> <p>Irvine name. Pagrus ehrenbergi Cuvier and Valenciennes. A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra (?), March 1930 (Irvine 46)— BMNH 1930.8.26.46 (one: 148 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 274)— BMNH 1938.12.15.18 (one: 181 mm SL); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 401)— BMNH 1939.7.12.27 (one: 290 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola, including the Canary Islands. Also occurs in the Mediterranean and northwards to Portugal (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094AC12D3E64FF28FDA828F2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094AC12D3E3EFBA5FC9B2C35.text	03FC590B094AC12D3E3EFBA5FC9B2C35.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Spicara nigricauda (Norman 1931)	<div><p>* Spicara nigricauda (Norman, 1931)</p> <p>Irvine name. Coleosmaris nigricauda Norman.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, June 1930 (Irvine 101)— BMNH 1930.8.26.63–64 (two S  : 123.0, 128.3 mm SL of Coleosmaris nigricauda Norman, 1931).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Ghana to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>Described as a new species, Coleosmaris nigricauda, by Norman (1931: 359, figure 4) on the basis of Irvine’s material.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094AC12D3E3EFBA5FC9B2C35	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12A3E4BFDA5FE472A11.text	03FC590B094DC12A3E4BFDA5FE472A11.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chaetodipterus lippei Steindachner 1895	<div><p>Chaetodipterus lippei Steindachner, 1895</p> <p>Reference material. Accra (Irvine 132)— BMNH 1932.2.27.10 (one: 88 mm SL); Winneba (Irvine 180)— BMNH 1934.10.12.14 (one: 88.9 mm SL); Teshi, March 1936 (Irvine 208).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12A3E4BFDA5FE472A11	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12B3E19F982FCF9281D.text	03FC590B094DC12B3E19F982FCF9281D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chromis cadenati Whitley 1951	<div><p>Chromis cadenati Whitley, 1951</p> <p>Irvine name. Chromis chromis (Linnaeus). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 319)— BMNH 1939.7.12.29–30 (two: 139.2, 162 mm SL), BMNH 1975.5.29.29 (one: 133.8 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Ghana (Edwards, 1986). Whitley’s name was a replacement for Chromis lineatus Cadenat, 1950 (type locality: Senegal) which was preoccupied by Chromis lineatus Fowler and Bean, 1928 (type locality: Philippines) (Edwards, 1986).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12B3E19F982FCF9281D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12A3E13FC41FC112DF4.text	03FC590B094DC12A3E13FC41FC112DF4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Drepane africana Osorio 1892	<div><p>Drepane africana Osorio, 1892</p> <p>Irvine name. Drepane punctata (Linnaeus). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 49)— BMNH 1930.8.26.61–62 (two: 68.6, 84.1 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. West African coast between about Cape Verde and Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 1300 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12A3E13FC41FC112DF4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12A3EC7FCB7FBA02AA3.text	03FC590B094DC12A3EC7FCB7FBA02AA3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Drepanidae	<div><p>DREPANIDAE</p> <p>A single species occurs on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1954; Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 834–836) and was collected by Irvine. Family name normally Drepaneidae but spelt as above in Nelson (1994).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12A3EC7FCB7FBA02AA3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12A3EBAFF28FB1F282E.text	03FC590B094DC12A3EBAFF28FB1F282E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ephippidae Bleeker 1859	<div><p>EPHIPPIDAE</p> <p>Two species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 834–836) and both were collected by Irvine. On average about 550 tonnes of spadefishes are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12A3EBAFF28FB1F282E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12A3E1BFEFBFD982B1F.text	03FC590B094DC12A3E1BFEFBFD982B1F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ephippus goreensis Cuvier 1831	<div><p>Ephippus goreensis Cuvier, 1831</p> <p>Reference material. Anomabu, June 1930 (Irvine 107)— BMNH 1930.8.30.3 (one: 190 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Cape Verde to Gabon (Bauchot and Blanc, 1961b).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12A3E1BFEFBFD982B1F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094DC12A3EE0FA90FDA32CE6.text	03FC590B094DC12A3EE0FA90FDA32CE6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pomacentridae	<div><p>POMACENTRIDAE</p> <p>Eight species probably occur on the coast of Ghana and other Gulf of Guinea countries (Edwards, 1986). Three were reported by Irvine. The others which are present are: Chromis limbata (Valenciennes, 1833), C. multilineata (Guichenot, 1853), Microspathodon frontatus Emery, 1970 and Stegastes imbricatus Jenyns, 1842 (all photographed in Ghana by H. R. Lubbock in 1976) and probably Abudefduf hoefleri (Steindachner, 1881).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094DC12A3EE0FA90FDA32CE6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC12B3E3EFEA4FBA428F3.text	03FC590B094CC12B3E3EFEA4FBA428F3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Glyphisodon saxatilis (Linnaeus).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra (?), March 1930 (Irvine 74)— BMNH 1930.8.26.59 (one: 103.2 mm SL); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 255).</p> <p>Distribution. Both sides of the tropical Atlantic (Allen, 1991).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC12B3E3EFEA4FBA428F3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC12B3E74FD92FB262BC9.text	03FC590B094CC12B3E74FD92FB262BC9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Abudefduf taurus (Muller and Troschel 1848)	<div><p>Abudefduf taurus (Müller and Troschel, 1848)</p> <p>Irvine name. Glyphisodon hoefleri Steindachner. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 330)— BMNH 1939.7.12.28 (one: 82.7 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola and the Cape Verde Islands. Also occurs in the western tropical Atlantic (Edwards, 1986).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC12B3E74FD92FB262BC9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC12B3E32FB2CFCBB2C6B.text	03FC590B094CC12B3E32FB2CFCBB2C6B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bodianus speciosus (Bowdich 1825)	<div><p>Bodianus speciosus (Bowdich, 1825)</p> <p>Irvine name. Bodianus tredecimspinosus (Günther). A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, 35 miles east of Accra, May 1930 (Irvine 85)— BMNH 1930.8.30.8 (one: 178 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 268).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Guinea to Cameroon and around the Cape Verde Islands (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC12B3E32FB2CFCBB2C6B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC12B3EABFC98FC202A9F.text	03FC590B094CC12B3EABFC98FC202A9F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Labridae G.Cuvier 1816	<div><p>LABRIDAE</p> <p>About five species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Gomon and Forsyth in Quéro et al., 1990: 868–882) and four were recorded from Ghana by Irvine. See tables 1 and 2 for the other two species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC12B3EABFC98FC202A9F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC12B3EABFA3AFB792F21.text	03FC590B094CC12B3EABFA3AFB792F21.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scaridae Rafinesque 1810	<div><p>SCARIDAE</p> <p>Three species are known from the Gulf of Guinea coast of West Africa (Schultz, 1958) of which Irvine recorded one and collected two off Ghana. The two species collected by Irvine are listed below; the third is Nicholsina usta (Valenciennes, 1839).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC12B3EABFA3AFB792F21	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC12B3E3DFC26FCE92D95.text	03FC590B094CC12B3E3DFC26FCE92D95.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Xyrichtys novacula (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Xyrichtys novacula (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 167)— BMNH 1934.10.12.16 (one: 149 mm SL), BMNH 2001.5.2.29 (one: 155 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and coast of West Africa from Morocco to Gabon including the offshore islands. Also recorded in the western tropical Atlantic (Bauchot and Blanc, 1961a; Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC12B3E3DFC26FCE92D95	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094CC1283E5FF9C0FE4D28DC.text	03FC590B094CC1283E5FF9C0FE4D28DC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sparisoma rubripinne (Valenciennes 1839)	<div><p>Sparisoma rubripinne (Valenciennes, 1839)</p> <p>Irvine name. Callyodon hoefleri (Steindachner). Irvine’s specimen 56, listed under</p> <p>Callyodon (= Scarus) hoefleri is a Sparisoma and appears to be Sparisoma rubripinne.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 56)— BMNH 1930.8.26.60 (one: 173 mm SL); Accra, March 1935 (Irvine 302), specimen not found.</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea and Cape Verde Islands. Also occurs in the tropical western Atlantic (Randall in Quéro et al., 1990: 883–887).</p> <p>Irvine’s colour notes for Callyodon hoefleri (= Scarus hoefleri) appear to fit S. rubripinne more closely: ‘The colour is mottled brown above and on the sides, and pinkish beneath. The anal fin is red, the pectoral fins orange-coloured, and the pelvics red’.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094CC1283E5FF9C0FE4D28DC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094FC1283E32FE69FE472BAB.text	03FC590B094FC1283E32FE69FE472BAB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scarus hoefleri (Steindachner 1882)	<div><p>Scarus hoefleri (Steindachner, 1882)</p> <p>Irvine name. Specimen below was not listed in Irvine’s book.</p> <p>Reference material. Labadi, 1936, coll. K. W. Todd— BMNH 1938.12.15.21 (one: 345 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to the Congo (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094FC1283E32FE69FE472BAB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094FC1283ECEFD7EFBDD2A5B.text	03FC590B094FC1283ECEFD7EFBDD2A5B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinidae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>TRACHINIDAE</p> <p>Six species occur on the mainland coast of the Gulf of Guinea (Roux in Quéro et al., 1990: 893–895) and two were recorded from Ghana by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094FC1283ECEFD7EFBDD2A5B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094FC1283E1BFCEFFE472D2A.text	03FC590B094FC1283E1BFCEFFE472D2A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinus collignoni Roux 1957	<div><p>Trachinus collignoni Roux, 1957</p> <p>Irvine name. Trachinus lineolatus Fischer. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, 1936 (Irvine 210)— BMNH 1937.2.6.3 (one: 167 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Ghana to the Congo (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094FC1283E1BFCEFFE472D2A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094FC1283E19FBFCFDA82C59.text	03FC590B094FC1283E19FBFCFDA82C59.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Trachinus radiatus Cuvier 1829	<div><p>Trachinus radiatus Cuvier, 1829</p> <p>Reference material. Teshi, May 1930 (Irvine 100)— BMNH 1930.8.30.6 (one: 282 mm SL); Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 177)— BMNH 1934.10.12.18 (one: 204 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 267).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola including the Canary Islands. Also occurs in the Mediterranean and on the coast of southern Portugal (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094FC1283E19FBFCFDA82C59	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094FC1283EE6FAEDFC8B2F08.text	03FC590B094FC1283EE6FAEDFC8B2F08.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Uranoscopidae	<div><p>URANOSCOPIDAE</p> <p>Three species probably occur along the mainland Gulf of Guinea coast (Poll, 1959; Roux in Quéro et al., 1990: 897–898), one which was collected by Irvine from Ghana. The other two species which may be expected are Uranoscopus albesca Regan, 1915 and U. cadenati Poll, 1959.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094FC1283EE6FAEDFC8B2F08	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094FC1293E27F9DDFE4729FD.text	03FC590B094FC1293E27F9DDFE4729FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Uranoscopus polli Cadenat 1951	<div><p>Uranoscopus polli Cadenat, 1951</p> <p>Irvine name. Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Anomabu, June 1930 (Irvine 111)— BMNH 1930.8.26.58 (one: 191 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from at least Ghana to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094FC1293E27F9DDFE4729FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094EC1293EDDFE89FD99288C.text	03FC590B094EC1293EDDFE89FD99288C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Acanthuridae	<div><p>ACANTHURIDAE</p> <p>Irvine used the older family name Teuthididae. A single species has been recorded from the mainland coast of West Africa (Poll, 1959; Bauchot, 1966a) and was collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094EC1293EDDFE89FD99288C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094EC1293E52FE59FBFF2BBB.text	03FC590B094EC1293E52FE59FBFF2BBB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner 1876	<div><p>Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876</p> <p>Irvine name. Teuthis monroviae (Steindachner).</p> <p>Reference material. Ningo, May 1930 (Irvine 80)— BMNH 1930.8.26.69–70 (two: 93.2, 253 mm SL); Accra, 1935 (Irvine 303–det. Ach. F. R. I. 1938); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 257)— BMNH 1938.12.15.25 (one: 92.5 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Cape Verde Islands and coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola over hard substrata (Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 962–964).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094EC1293E52FE59FBFF2BBB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094EC1293E0AFC3FFC442C19.text	03FC590B094EC1293E0AFC3FFC442C19.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scomber colias Gmelin 1789	<div><p>Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, May 1930 (Irvine 84)— BMNH 1930.8.26.71 (one: 195 mm SL); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 315).</p> <p>Distribution. In warm temperate and subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea (Collette and Nauen, 1983; Collette, 1999).</p> <p>Until recently S. colias has been considered a junior synonym of a cosmopolitan species S. japonicus Houttyn, 1782 but recent studies by Collette (1999) indicate that Atlantic and Indo-Pacific populations of chub mackerels should be recognized as two separate species with S. colias being the valid name for the Atlantic species. On average about 130 000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a very important fishery species.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094EC1293E0AFC3FFC442C19	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094EC1293EC2FD4EFC122A6B.text	03FC590B094EC1293EC2FD4EFC122A6B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scombridae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>SCOMBRIDAE</p> <p>About 11 species have been recorded from the Gulf of Guinea (Collette and Nauen, 1983) and seven were recorded by Irvine from Ghana. On average about 450 000 tonnes of scombrids are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making this family one of the most important fishery groups.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094EC1293EC2FD4EFC122A6B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094EC1293E15FAACFB8D2F08.text	03FC590B094EC1293E15FAACFB8D2F08.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Thunnus obesus (Lowe 1839)	<div><p>Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839)</p> <p>Irvine name. Parathunnus obesus (Lowe).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, July 1938 (Irvine 282, head and tail only)— BMNH 1938.12.15.22 (one: ca 210 cm HL).</p> <p>Distribution. Pantropical species (Collette and Nauen, 1983).</p> <p>On average about 70 000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a very important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094EC1293E15FAACFB8D2F08	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B094EC1263EFBF9DDFDF128BD.text	03FC590B094EC1263EFBF9DDFDF128BD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sarda sarda (Bloch 1793) sarda (Bloch 1793	<div><p>Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793)</p> <p>Irvine name. Listed correctly under the name above apart from one specimen (A. P. Brown 1) mistakenly listed under Scomberomorus tritor.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 397)— BMNH 1939.7.12.31 (one: 322 mm FL); Labadi, 27 January 1936 (A. P. Brown 1; head and tail only)— BMNH 1937.2.6.5 (1 head: 106 mm HL).</p> <p>Distribution. In the eastern Atlantic known from Norway to South Africa including the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Also known from the western Atlantic from Massachusetts to northern Argentina (Collette and Nauen, 1983).</p> <p>About 3500 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species. The fishery appears to have expanded greatly in the last few years.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B094EC1263EFBF9DDFDF128BD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0941C1263E04FB37FB082CC3.text	03FC590B0941C1263E04FB37FB082CC3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Auxis rochei (Risso 1810)	<div><p>Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810)</p> <p>Irvine name. Auxis thazard (Lacepède). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, June 1931 (Irvine 139)— BMNH 1932.27.17 (one: 296 mm FL; determined as A. rochei by B. Collette).</p> <p>Distribution. Cosmopolitan in warm seas (Collette and Nauen, 1983).</p> <p>On average about 2500 tonnes of Auxis spp. are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making them significant fishery species. The two species of Auxis (A. rochei and A. thazard) are not too difficult to tell apart if you have fresh material in good condition but old museum material can be difficult to determine.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0941C1263E04FB37FB082CC3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0941C1263E52FE4AFDA12D6F.text	03FC590B0941C1263E52FE4AFDA12D6F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque 1810)	<div><p>Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810)</p> <p>Irvine name. Listed correctly under the name above but one specimen (A. P. Brown 4) was misidentified as Auxis rochei (Risso).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 338); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 390)— BMNH 1939.7.12.32 (one: 290 mm SL, 311 mm FL; H   of Euthynnus alletteratus aurolitoralis Fraser-Brunner, 1949); Labadi, January 1935 (A. P. Brown 4)— BMNH 1937.2.6.2 (one: 300 mm SL, 321 mm FL; P     of Euthynnus alletteratus aurolitoralis Fraser-Brunner, 1949; listed under Auxis rochei by Irvine).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania and Cape Verde Islands to Angola. Also known from the Mediterranean Sea and the western Atlantic.</p> <p>Fraser-Brunner (1949: 626, figure 2b) used Irvine’s material as the basis for splitting E. alletteratus into two subspecies. Fraser-Brunner’s subspecific designation, which separates West African (‘southern’ populations) of the species from ‘northern’ ones from the Mediterranean and North Atlantic (south to Senegal and Brazil), does not appear to have been recognized by later workers. The characters he used to separate the two subspecies were vague and the number of specimens examined very small (only the two specimens above for the ‘southern’ aurolitoralis subspecies).</p> <p>On average about 3000 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species. Catches have declined greatly since the early 1990s.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0941C1263E52FE4AFDA12D6F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0941C1273E3EFA63FC11283D.text	03FC590B0941C1273E3EFA63FC11283D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scomberomorus tritor (Cuvier 1831)	<div><p>Scomberomorus tritor (Cuvier, 1831)</p> <p>Irvine name. Listed under the name above but other material listed under this species as ‘Labadi (A. P. Brown 1—head and tail only)’ is Sarda sarda (see above).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 16)— BMNH 1930.3.24.41 (one: 266 mm FL); Accra, 1935 (Irvine 304–det. Ach. F. R. I. 1938); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 318).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from the Canary Islands and Dakar to Angola. Enters estuaries (Collette and Nauen, 1983).</p> <p>On average about 1400 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0941C1273E3EFA63FC11283D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0940C1273EA9FEF4FE6A2B4C.text	03FC590B0940C1273EA9FEF4FE6A2B4C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gobiidae	<div><p>GOBIIDAE</p> <p>At least 23 species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Miller in Quéro et al., 1990: 925–951) and five were recorded from Ghana by Irvine (see also tables 1, 2). Irvine included the mudskipper Periophthalmus in the Gobiidae, where it is now generally considered to belong, although it has often been placed in its own family Periophthalmidae. We consider it under the Gobiidae following Nelson (1994).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0940C1273EA9FEF4FE6A2B4C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0940C1273E2FFD05FC362ADA.text	03FC590B0940C1273E2FFD05FC362ADA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gobioides africanus (Giltay 1935)	<div><p>Gobioides africanus (Giltay, 1935)</p> <p>Irvine name. Gobioides ansorgii Boulenger. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November 1938 (Irvine 356)— BMNH 1939.7.12.33 (one: 132.3 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Congo: entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>Gobioides ansorgii Boulenger, 1909 is also present in the region and can be distinguished by its more elongate body. It has 19–21 soft dorsal rays compared to about 15 soft dorsal rays (Giltay, 1935) in G. africanus.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0940C1273E2FFD05FC362ADA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0940C1273ED0F9C8FC122FD8.text	03FC590B0940C1273ED0F9C8FC122FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Labrisomidae Clark Hubbs 1952	<div><p>LABRISOMIDAE</p> <p>A single species has been recorded from the mainland coast of tropical West</p> <p>Africa (Bauchot, 1966b) and was collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0940C1273ED0F9C8FC122FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0940C1273E5DFB9AFE122F08.text	03FC590B0940C1273E5DFB9AFE122F08.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus 1766)	<div><p>Periophthalmus barbarus (Linnaeus, 1766)</p> <p>Irvine name. Periophthalmus koelreuteri (Pallas). A junior synonym.</p> <p>Reference material. Botiano Lagoon, near Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 72)— BMNH 1930.8.26.72–74 (three: 133.0– 136.2 mm SL); no locality, 1931 (Plumptre)?— BMNH 1934.10.12.19 (one: 98.2 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coasts, lagoons and estuaries of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola including the Gulf of Guinea islands (Miller in Quéro et al., 1990: 958–959).</p> <p>A recent study by Murdy (1989) indicates that Gobius koelreuteri Pallas, 1770, Periophthalmus papilio Bloch and Schneider, 1801, P. gabonicus Duméril, 1861 (type locality: Gabon), and P. erythronemus Guichenot in Duméril, 1861 (type locality: Senegal) are all junior synonyms of P. barbarus. This species is the only Periophthalmus in West Africa and is endemic to the eastern tropical Atlantic. Murdy (1989) designated a neotype for P. barbarus from Liberia and also noted that the purported type locality of ‘ Tranquebar, India’ for P. papilio must be presumed an error.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0940C1273E5DFB9AFE122F08	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243EBAFE4DFB452B6C.text	03FC590B0943C1243EBAFE4DFB452B6C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Blenniidae Rafinesque 1810	<div><p>BLENNIIDAE</p> <p>No blenniids were listed by Irvine (1947) but specimens of two species collected by him were found in the Natural History Museum collections. Another dozen species of combtooth blennies may be expected off the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1959; Bauchot, 1966b; Bath in Quéro et al., 1990: 905–915).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243EBAFE4DFB452B6C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243E10FAA2FC1C2F3B.text	03FC590B0943C1243E10FAA2FC1C2F3B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brotula barbata (Bloch 1801)	<div><p>Brotula barbata (Bloch, 1801)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, February 1930 (Irvine 41)— BMNH 1930.8.26.76 (one: 390 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from southern Senegal to Angola. Also known from the tropical western Atlantic (Nielsen et al., 1999).</p> <p>On average about 450 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a significant fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243E10FAA2FC1C2F3B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243E46FD31FD2C2A48.text	03FC590B0943C1243E46FD31FD2C2A48.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Entomacrodus cadenati Springer 1966	<div><p>Entomacrodus cadenati Springer, 1966</p> <p>Reference material. Axim, Ghana, ca 1938, coll. F. R. Irvine and Miss V. J. Foote— BMNH 2002.1.19.4–14 (11: 30.9–56.3 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to the Congo and the Cape Verde Islands (Springer, 1966).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243E46FD31FD2C2A48	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243D89FF28FD8728B0.text	03FC590B0943C1243D89FF28FD8728B0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Labrisomus nuchipinnis (Quoy and Gaimard 1824)	<div><p>Labrisomus nuchipinnis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)</p> <p>Reference material. Anomabu, near Cape Coast, June 1930 (Irvine 110)— BMNH 1930.8.26.75 (one: 85.0 mm SL), BMNH 1932.2.27.21–22 (two: 87.5, 97.6 mm SL); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 329)— BMNH 1939.7.12.34 (one: 68.3 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Shallow coastal waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic (Bauchot, 1966b).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243D89FF28FD8728B0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243EB9FB1EFD202C00.text	03FC590B0943C1243EB9FB1EFD202C00.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ophidiidae Rafinesque 1810	<div><p>OPHIDIIDAE</p> <p>Placed in the family Brotulidae by Irvine. Only one species is likely to be found in inshore waters in the Gulf of Guinea (Nielsen and Nybelin, 1963) and this was recorded by Irvine from Ghana.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243EB9FB1EFD202C00	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243E2AFC15FB572D44.text	03FC590B0943C1243E2AFC15FB572D44.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scartella cristata (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Scartella cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Elmina, Ghana — BMNH 1935.5.20.1 (one: 48.5 mm SL); Axim, Ghana, ca 1938, coll. F. R. Irvine and Miss V. J. Foote— BMNH 2002.1.19.15 (one: 40.9 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to the Congo and in the Mediterranean. Also occurs in the tropical western Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243E2AFC15FB572D44	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0943C1243ED3F9C6FCDF2FD8.text	03FC590B0943C1243ED3F9C6FCDF2FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Stromateidae Rafinesque 1810	<div><p>STROMATEIDAE</p> <p>A single species occurs on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea (Haedrich in Quéro et al., 1990: 1021) and was collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0943C1243ED3F9C6FCDF2FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0942C1253EBEFAACFD102CE8.text	03FC590B0942C1253EBEFAACFD102CE8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Mugilidae Jarocki & Jarocki 1822	<div><p>MUGILIDAE</p> <p>Six species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Thomson in Quéro et al., 1990: 855–859). Although six species were recorded by Irvine, specimens of only three species were found and there was evidence of confusion in identification (see also table 2). On average about 10 000 tonnes of grey mullets are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0942C1253EBEFAACFD102CE8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0942C1253E31FBBCFC1B2C19.text	03FC590B0942C1253E31FBBCFC1B2C19.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sphyraena guachancho Cuvier 1829	<div><p>Sphyraena guachancho Cuvier, 1829</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 18); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 339); Accra, January 1938 (Irvine 395)— BMNH 2001.5.2.31 (one: 145 mm SL; in very poor condition and not determinable with certainty); Accra, January 1939 (Irvine 396)— BMNH 1939.7.12.38 (one: 293 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Both sides of the tropical Atlantic. On the coast of West Africa known from Senegal to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0942C1253E31FBBCFC1B2C19	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0942C1253E41FDEEFE232AEA.text	03FC590B0942C1253E41FDEEFE232AEA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus 1758) sphyraena (Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 181)— BMNH 1934.10.12.20 (one: ca 350 mm SL); Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 339)— BMNH 2001.5.2.30 (one: 304 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Madeira, Canaries, Cape Verde Islands and coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola. Also occurs in the Mediterranean and northwards to the Bay of Biscay, and in the western Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>A barracuda seen by Irvine, which was 180 cm in length and which he thought might have been this species, was likely to have been Sphyraena afra Peters, 1844, but could have been the Great barracuda, S. barracuda (Walbaum, 1792), which is uncommon in the area. Sphyraena sphyraena is only reported to a maximum length of 165 cm.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0942C1253E41FDEEFE232AEA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0942C1253ED2FE59FC682B5C.text	03FC590B0942C1253ED2FE59FC682B5C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sphyraenidae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>SPHYRAENIDAE</p> <p>Four species occur in the Gulf of Guinea (de Sylva in Quéro et al., 1990: 860–864) and two were reported from Ghana by Irvine. On average about 6000 tonnes of barracuda are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0942C1253ED2FE59FC682B5C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0942C1253E2EFF28FC1C288C.text	03FC590B0942C1253E2EFF28FC1C288C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 78)— BMNH 1930.8.26.68 (one: 281 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Morocco to South Africa (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 400 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a significant fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0942C1253E2EFF28FC1C288C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0942C1223E1CF9BDFB16285D.text	03FC590B0942C1223E1CF9BDFB16285D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Mugil cephalus Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Irvine names. Mugil cephalus Linnaeus and Mugil auratus Risso. The latter (Irvine 130) is a misidentification. Liza aurata is recorded in the eastern Atlantic from the British Isles as far south as Senegal but does not appear to occur in the Gulf of Guinea.</p> <p>Reference material. Lagoons near Accra (?), 1930 (Irvine 114); Keta, November 1938 (Irvine 374 pt)— BMNH 1939.7.12.36 (one: 375 mm SL); Sakumo Lagoon, Accra, May 1931 (Irvine 130)— BMNH 1932.2.27.19–20 (two: 91.0, 91.4 mm SL; listed under Mugil auratus by Irvine).</p> <p>Distribution. Most warm seas: entering fresh water (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0942C1223E1CF9BDFB16285D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0945C1223E3DFD65FD202D9A.text	03FC590B0945C1223E3DFD65FD202D9A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Liza falcipinnis (Valenciennes 1836)	<div><p>Liza falcipinnis (Valenciennes, 1836)</p> <p>Irvine name. Mugil falcipinnis Cuvier and Valenciennes.</p> <p>Reference material. Anamabu, June 1930 (Irvine 112)— BMNH 1932.2.27.18 (one: 170 mm SL); south of Amedica, River Volta, May 1938 (Irvine 220), near Akuse, River Volta, May 1938 (Irvine 221)— BMNH 1938.12.15.54–55 (two specimens (220 and 221): 143, 158 mm SL respectively); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 331)— BMNH 1969.3.17.21– 22 in part (one: 72.8 mm SL); Ada, estuary of River Volta, November 1938 (Irvine 367); Keta, November 1938 (Irvine 380)— BMNH 1939.7.12.35 (one: 176 mm SL); Fana, Sekumu Lagoon, near Accra, November 1938 (Irvine 384)— BMNH 1969.3.17.21– 22 in part (one: 84.7 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola: entering fresh water (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0945C1223E3DFD65FD202D9A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0945C1223E51FA2BFC112FD8.text	03FC590B0945C1223E51FA2BFC112FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pentanemus quinquarius (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Pentanemus quinquarius (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 26)— BMNH 1930.3.24.40 and BMNH 1930.8.26.65–66 (three: 94.0– 109.1 mm SL); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 17)— BMNH 2001.5.2.32 (one: 132.5 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to Angola: entering rivers (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 3600 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0945C1223E51FA2BFC112FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0945C1223ED4FB5BFBD02C69.text	03FC590B0945C1223ED4FB5BFBD02C69.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Polynemidae Rafinesque 1815	<div><p>POLYNEMIDAE</p> <p>Three species occur off Ghana and neighbouring countries in West Africa (Poll, 1959; Njock in Quéro et al., 1990: 865–867), all of which support significant local fisheries. On average about 24 000 tonnes of threadfins are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making them very important to demersal fisheries.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0945C1223ED4FB5BFBD02C69	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0944C1233E3FFE40FB8D2BFD.text	03FC590B0944C1233E3FFE40FB8D2BFD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Galeoides decadactylus (Bloch 1795)	<div><p>Galeoides decadactylus (Bloch, 1795)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 24)— BMNH 1930.3.24.39 (one: 116 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 266); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 18)— BMNH 2001.5.2.33 (one: 172 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Canary Islands to Angola: entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 12 300 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it a very important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0944C1233E3FFE40FB8D2BFD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0944C1233E45FF28FC1128B5.text	03FC590B0944C1233E45FF28FC1128B5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Polydactylus quadrifilis (Cuvier 1829)	<div><p>Polydactylus quadrifilis (Cuvier, 1829)</p> <p>Reference material. Amedica, River Volta, May 1938 (Irvine 239)— BMNH 1938.12.15.56 (one: 163 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola: entering rivers (Quéro et al., 1990).</p> <p>On average about 4300 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000), making it an important fishery species.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0944C1233E45FF28FC1128B5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0944C1233E37FBB2FC222C4E.text	03FC590B0944C1233E37FBB2FC222C4E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Pontinus accraensis Norman 1935	<div><p>* Pontinus accraensis Norman, 1935</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, February 1930 (Irvine 40)— BMNH 1930.3.24.42 (H  : 173 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Mauritania, Senegal, throughout Gulf of Guinea to Angola (Eschmeyer, 1969).</p> <p>Described as a new species by Norman (1935a: 23) on the basis of Irvine material. Maximum size of specimens is 18.5 cm but Irvine indicated that it is said to grow to a length of 60–90 cm. Irvine noted that another specimen (not found) taken at Accra in 1935 (Irvine 308) might belong to this genus.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0944C1233E37FBB2FC222C4E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0944C1233E1AFA05FB462FD8.text	03FC590B0944C1233E1AFA05FB462FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scorpaena laevis Troschel 1866	<div><p>Scorpaena laevis Troschel, 1866</p> <p>Irvine name. Listed both under the name above and a second specimen (Irvine 65) as Scorpaena senegalensis Steindachner. The latter name is a junior synonym of S. laevis.</p> <p>Reference material. Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 272)— BMNH 1938.12.15.24 (one: 136.1 mm SL); Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 65)— BMNH 1930.8.30.9 (one: 204 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Congo including the Cape Verde Islands. Also reported from the Azores and Madeira (Eschmeyer, 1969).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0944C1233E1AFA05FB462FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0944C1233ED1FCBBFCB02AE6.text	03FC590B0944C1233ED1FCBBFCB02AE6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scorpaenidae	<div><p>SCORPAENIDAE</p> <p>About nine species occur in shallow (&lt;200 m deep) waters along the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Eschmeyer, 1969) and three were recorded by Irvine (under four names) from the coast of Ghana (see also table 1). Several other species occur in deepwater offshore. On average about 2200 tonnes of scorpionfishes are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0944C1233ED1FCBBFCB02AE6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203EB6FAD8FDD42CE0.text	03FC590B0947C1203EB6FAD8FDD42CE0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bothidae Smitt 1892	<div><p>BOTHIDAE</p> <p>Some 10 species have been recorded from the Gulf of Guinea, although two of these tend to occur only in waters over 100 m deep (Poll, 1959; Aldebert et al. in Quéro et al., 1990: 1027–1036), and two were reported by Irvine from the coast of Ghana (see also table 1).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203EB6FAD8FDD42CE0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203D82FED0FB7828E7.text	03FC590B0947C1203D82FED0FB7828E7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chelidonichthys gabonensis (Poll and Roux 1955)	<div><p>Chelidonichthys gabonensis (Poll and Roux, 1955)</p> <p>Irvine name. Trigla hirundo Linnaeus. Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November (?) 1930 (Irvine 125)— BMNH 1932.2.27.24–25 (two: 149, 150 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Cape Verde to Angola (Richards, 1968).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203D82FED0FB7828E7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203EF6FDB8FB792B9F.text	03FC590B0947C1203EF6FDB8FB792B9F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dactylopteridae Gill 1861	<div><p>DACTYLOPTERIDAE</p> <p>A single species is found on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea (Poll, 1959;</p> <p>Eschmeyer and Dempster in Quéro et al., 1990: 690–691) and was collected by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203EF6FDB8FB792B9F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203E4FFD20FBFE2A97.text	03FC590B0947C1203E4FFD20FBFE2A97.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dactylopterus volitans (Linnaeus 1758)	<div><p>Dactylopterus volitans (Linnaeus, 1758)</p> <p>Irvine name. Cephalacanthus volitans (Linnaeus). Reference material. Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 165)— BMNH 1934.10.12.22</p> <p>(one: 240 mm SL); Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 252)— BMNH 1938.12.15.23 (one:</p> <p>260 mm SL); ‘Gold Coast’ (Irvine). Distribution. Both sides of the tropical Atlantic (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203E4FFD20FBFE2A97	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203E24FBF0FE472C08.text	03FC590B0947C1203E24FBF0FE472C08.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Psettodes belcheri Bennett 1831	<div><p>Psettodes belcheri Bennett, 1831</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 38)— BMNH 1930.3.24.43 (one: not studied, currently on loan).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203E24FBF0FE472C08	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203ECFFC28FD312D2F.text	03FC590B0947C1203ECFFC28FD312D2F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Psettodidae Regan 1910	<div><p>PSETTODIDAE</p> <p>A single genus and two species are known from West Africa (Nielsen in Quéro et al., 1990: 1024), of which one occurs on the coast of Ghana and other Gulf of Guinea countries (Nielsen, 1961).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203ECFFC28FD312D2F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203E2CF980FD692FD8.text	03FC590B0947C1203E2CF980FD692FD8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Syacium micrurum Ranzani 1840	<div><p>Syacium micrurum Ranzani, 1840</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, November 1930 (Irvine 121 A); Winneba, March 1933</p> <p>(Irvine 176)— BMNH 1934.10.12.21 (one: 240 mm SL); Keta, 1933 (Akpabla A 6). Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Mauritania to Angola (Nielsen, 1961).</p> <p>Also in the tropical western Atlantic.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203E2CF980FD692FD8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0947C1203EB1FF28FC01280F.text	03FC590B0947C1203EB1FF28FC01280F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Triglidae	<div><p>TRIGLIDAE</p> <p>Five species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Richards,</p> <p>1968) and one was recorded from Ghana by Irvine.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0947C1203EB1FF28FC01280F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213EBFFA2DFB992F28.text	03FC590B0946C1213EBFFA2DFB992F28.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Balistidae	<div><p>BALISTIDAE</p> <p>Four species are likely to be found in the Gulf of Guinea (Shipp, 1981) and two were recorded by Irvine from Ghana. On average about 75 tonnes of triggerfishes are reported to be caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213EBFFA2DFB992F28	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213EE5FDCEFB2A2A0B.text	03FC590B0946C1213EE5FDCEFB2A2A0B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cynoglossidae	<div><p>CYNOGLOSSIDAE</p> <p>Seven species occur in inshore waters off the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Nielsen, 1963; Munroe, 1990; Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 1050–1054) and one was recorded (under two different names) from Ghana by Irvine. One or two other species occur in deepwaters (&gt; 200 m depth) offshore. On average about 5000 tonnes of tonguesoles are caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213EE5FDCEFB2A2A0B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213E43FCDFFE0E2D5A.text	03FC590B0946C1213E43FCDFFE0E2D5A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cynoglossus senegalensis (Kaup 1858)	<div><p>Cynoglossus senegalensis (Kaup, 1858)</p> <p>Irvine names. Recorded both by the name above and as Cynoglossus goreensis Steindachner (a junior synonym).</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 17)— BMNH 1930.3.24.44 (one: 316 mm SL); estuary of the River Volta (Ada), November 1938 (Irvine 364 pt)— BMNH 1939.7.12.39 (one: 245 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to Angola (Nielsen, 1963).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213E43FCDFFE0E2D5A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213EC7FBECFB792DC9.text	03FC590B0946C1213EC7FBECFB792DC9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Echeneidae Rafinesque 1810	<div><p>ECHENEIDAE</p> <p>Seven species may be encountered in the Gulf of Guinea (Lachner and Post in</p> <p>Quéro et al., 1990: 725–728) and one was reported by Irvine from the coast of Ghana.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213EC7FBECFB792DC9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213E29FA9CFB5E2C99.text	03FC590B0946C1213E29FA9CFB5E2C99.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus 1758	<div><p>Echeneis naucrates Linnaeus, 1758</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 7)— BMNH 1930.8.26.77 (one:</p> <p>410 mm SL); Accra, January 1935 (Irvine 309); Accra, November 1938 (Irvine 355). Distribution. Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical seas (Lachner, 1966).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213E29FA9CFB5E2C99	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213EABFF28FB78284C.text	03FC590B0946C1213EABFF28FB78284C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Soleidae	<div><p>SOLEIDAE</p> <p>At least five species occur in inshore waters in the Gulf of Guinea (Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 1037–1049), but only one was recorded from the coast of Ghana by Irvine. On average about 10 000 tonnes of soles appear to be caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000). Several deepwater species are also present (Nielsen, 1963).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213EABFF28FB78284C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0946C1213E2AFE19FB932B3C.text	03FC590B0946C1213E2AFE19FB932B3C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Synaptura lusitanica Capello 1868	<div><p>Synaptura lusitanica Capello, 1868</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, October 1930 (Irvine 120)— BMNH 1932.2.27.23 (one: 298.3 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Congo. Also occurs in the Mediterranean and northwards to Portugal (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0946C1213E2AFE19FB932B3C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0959C13E3E62FC9DFC8A2AFA.text	03FC590B0959C13E3E62FC9DFC8A2AFA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Acanthostracion notacanthus (Bleeker 1862)	<div><p>Acanthostracion notacanthus (Bleeker, 1862)</p> <p>Irvine name. Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus). Misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Labadi, 1934 (M. J. Field 12)— BMNH 1938.12.15.26 (one: 135.1 mm SL). Label suggests October 1936 as date of collection.</p> <p>Distribution. Established populations are known from the Azores, St Helena and Ascension (Tyler, 1965). Tyler (1965) suggests that this specimen, which he examined, is likely to have been a stray.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0959C13E3E62FC9DFC8A2AFA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0959C13E3E52FA94FB792CA3.text	03FC590B0959C13E3E52FA94FB792CA3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus 1766)	<div><p>Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 20)— BMNH 1930.3.24.46–47 (two: 81.8, 101.5 mm SL); Winneba, March 1933 (Irvine 169).</p> <p>Distribution. Both sides of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic. On the coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola including offshore islands (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0959C13E3E52FA94FB792CA3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0959C13E3ECCFDD1FB382BC5.text	03FC590B0959C13E3ECCFDD1FB382BC5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ostraciidae Rafinesque 1810	<div><p>OSTRACIIDAE</p> <p>Two species occur in the Gulf of Guinea (Tyler, 1965) and one was reported by Irvine. Acanthostracion guineensis Bleeker, 1865 is reported from Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea but Irvine’s specimen appears to have been a stray A. notacanthus.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0959C13E3ECCFDD1FB382BC5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0959C13E3EEFFB88FDDF2DCF.text	03FC590B0959C13E3EEFFB88FDDF2DCF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tetraodontidae	<div><p>TETRAODONTIDAE</p> <p>Six species are known from the Gulf of Guinea, although one is only likely to occur well offshore (Poll, 1959; Shipp in Quéro et al., 1990: 1069–1072); two of these were recorded by Irvine from Ghana (one under two different names). Sporadic catches of up to around 125 tonnes per year of pufferfishes have been reported from the region (FAO, 2000).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0959C13E3EEFFB88FDDF2DCF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0959C13F3E28FA43FCDD29FD.text	03FC590B0959C13F3E28FA43FCDD29FD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ephippion guttifer (Bennett 1831)	<div><p>Ephippion guttifer (Bennett, 1831)</p> <p>Irvine name. Recorded both by the name above and as Tetraodon pustulatus Murray (a riverine species; S: BMNH 1866.6.14.5–6). The latter is a misidentification.</p> <p>Reference material. Accra (Irvine 131)— BMNH 1932.2.27.27 (one: 114 mm SL); Accra, November 1938 (Irvine 354)— BMNH 1939.7.12.40 (one: 74.1 mm SL; listed under Tetraodon pustulatus).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Angola, including offshore islands: entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0959C13F3E28FA43FCDD29FD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0958C13F3E63FE36FD872B84.text	03FC590B0958C13F3E63FE36FD872B84.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Batrachoides liberiensis (Steindachner 1867)	<div><p>Batrachoides liberiensis (Steindachner, 1867)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, June 1930 (Irvine 102)— BMNH 1930.8.30.11 (1 specimen: 173 mm SL).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Senegal to northern Angola (Roux, 1971; Collette and Russo, 1981).</p> <p>Irvine correctly noted that B. beninensis Regan, 1915 is a junior synonym (Collette and Russo, 1981).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0958C13F3E63FE36FD872B84	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0958C13F3EE2FE8AFC712891.text	03FC590B0958C13F3EE2FE8AFC712891.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Batrachoididae	<div><p>BATRACHOIDIDAE</p> <p>Four species occur in the Gulf of Guinea, one being recorded from Gabon to</p> <p>Angola only (Roux, 1971). Irvine recorded two from Ghana.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0958C13F3EE2FE8AFC712891	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
03FC590B0958C13F3E5BFD23FB632A78.text	03FC590B0958C13F3E5BFD23FB632A78.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Halobatrachus didactylus (Schneider 1801)	<div><p>Halobatrachus didactylus (Schneider, 1801)</p> <p>Reference material. Accra, March 1930 (Irvine 64)— BMNH 1930.8.30.10 (one: ca 305 mm SL); Winneba, March 1934 (Irvine 168).</p> <p>Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Morocco to Ghana. Also occurs in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal (Roux, 1971).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC590B0958C13F3E5BFD23FB632A78	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Edwards, A. J.;Gill, A. C.;Abohweyere, P. O.	Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C., Abohweyere, P. O. (2003): A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2213-2267, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210138359, URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930210138359
