up the west coast, warm temperate waters of the Atlantic and southern Indian oceans) Order Beryciformes Family Berycidae – berycids Beryx, Beryx decadactylus Cuvier, 1829 (Saldanha Bay to Natal) Slender beryx, Beryx splendens Lowe, 1834 (Saldanha Bay to Natal) Short alfonsino, Centroberyx spinosus (Gilchrist, 1903) (False Bay and Storms River to Durban) Family Monocentridae – pineapple fishes Pineapple fish, Monocentris japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782) (Indo-West Pacific and Red Sea south to Mossel Bay)(Recorded from False Bay on at least two occasions) Family Trachichthyidae – slimeheads Gephyroberyx darwini (Johnson, 1866) (all round South African coast) Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett, 1896 (From Iceland to Morocco and Walvis Bay to off Durban) Black slimehead, Hoplostethus cadenati Quero, 1974 (West coast of Africa from 36°N – 26°S, and off Transkei) Hoplostethus mediterraneus Cuvier, 1829 (Namibia to Natal) Hoplostethus melanops (Weber, 1913) (Indo-West pacific from Indonesia to Natal, also off Namibia and Cape Town) Order Clupeiformes Family Clupeidae – herrings, sardines and pilchards Round sardinelle, Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, 1847 (Walvis Bay to Saldanha Bay) Pilchard or sardine, Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842) (Namibia to Mozambique) Family Dussumieriidae Roundherring, Etrumeus whiteheadi Wongratana, 1983 (Walvis Bay to KwaZulu-Natal) Family Engraulidae – anchovies Cape anchovy, Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 (Walvis Bay to Mozambique and Indo-Pacific) Order Elopiformes Family Elopidae – ladyfishes Atlantic ladyfish, Elops lacerta Valenciennes, 1846 (Atlantic coast to 23°S) Order Gadiformes Family: Bregmacerotidae – codlets Antenna codlet, Bregmaceros atlanticus Goode and Bean, 1886 (off south Cape and Natal coasts; circumtropical) Spotted codlet, Bregmaceros mcclellandi Thompson, 1840 (from Cape eastwards; circumtropical but not known from east Pacific) Bregmaceros nectabanus Whitley, 1941 (Cape eastwards to tropical Indo-West Pacific; Tropical eastern Atlantic) Family Gadidae – cods Cape rockling, Gaidropsarus capensis (Kaup, 1858) (Cape Town to East London) Comb rockling, Gaidropsaris insularum Sivertsen, 1945 (Cape Peninsula and West coast) Family Macrouridae – grenadiers Bathygadus favosus Goode and Bean, 1886 (off Cape Town) Bathygadus melanobranchus Vaillant, 1888 (Table Bay and Natal coast. Unverified, specimens missing) Surgeon grenadier, Coelorhinchus acanthiger Barnard, 1925 (off Namibia to Cape Point) Shovelnose grenadier, Coelorhinchus braueri Barnard, 1925 (Saldanha and Table Bay, Cape Point, East London; Angola to Mozambique) Abyssal grenedier, armoured rat-tail, russet grenadier, smoothscale rattail, Coryphaenoides armatus (Hector, 1875) (abyssal, all oceans except Arctic. One Atlantic record off South Africa) Coryphaenoides striaturus Barnard, 1925 (off Cape Point) Gadomus capensis, (Gilchrist and von Bonde, 1924) (Table Bay to Mozambique) Bigeye grenadier, Macrourus holotrachys Günther, 1878 (Cape Point