Porcostoma Dentata
The Dane seabream (''Porcostoma dentata''), also known as the Dane, is a species of marine Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. The Dane seabream is the only species in the monospecific genus ''Porcostoma''. This species is Endemism, endemic to the southwestern Indian Ocean off the coast of Southern Africa. Taxonomy The Dane seabream was first formally Species description, described as ''Chrysophrys dentatus'' by the ichthyologists John Dow Fisher Gilchrist, a Scot, and William Wardlaw Thompson, a South African, with its Type locality (biology), type locality given as Natal Colony, Natal. In 1938 James Leonard Brierley Smith reclassified this species in the monospecific genus ''Porcostoma''. This taxon is placed in the family Sparidae within the Order (biology), order Spariformes by the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World''. Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Sparinae, but t ...
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John Gilchrist (zoologist)
John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866–1926) was a Scottish ichthyologist, who established ichthyology as a scientific discipline in South Africa. He was instrumental in the development of marine biology in South Africa and of a scientifically based local fishing industry. Education and career Gilchrist was born in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland in 1866. His early education was at Madras College, St Andrews, Scotland. He studied at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and a Master of Arts (MA). He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition scholarship for advanced studies and research, which enabled him to study feeding in marine fishes. After further studies at the University of Munich and the University of Zurich he obtained his PhD in geology at Jena University in 1894. He studied marine biology in Naples, Monaco and the Isle of Man before returning to teach zoology at the University of Edinburgh. During his three months a ...
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