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    James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was...
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  • 1969, was formerly named the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, in honour of Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, who named and described the living...
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  • (James Leonard Brierley Smith, 1897–1968), South African ichthyologist James Lorrain Smith (1862–1931), Scottish pathologist James Morton Smith (1919–2012)...
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    The coelacanth "living fossil" was discovered by Smith's father, Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, a renowned ichthyologist. Pierre Terblanche, born...
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    was given as the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. In 1938 James Leonard Brierley Smith reclassified this species in the monospecific genus Pterogymnus...
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    College. On 14 April 1937 Margaret married her chemistry lecturer James Leonard Brierley Smith in Florida, Transvaal. They had one son named William. He is...
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  • than 2 metres (6.6 ft). This species was described in 1965 by James Leonard Brierley Smith from a type locality of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. It is distinguished...
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  • stands for Rhodes University Smith Institute and thus honours the South African ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith The following species are classified...
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    Latimeria (category Taxa named by J. L. B. Smith)
    Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, but he was away for Christmas. Unable to preserve the fish, she reluctantly sent it to a taxidermist. When Smith returned...
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    Trachinotus africanus (category Taxa named by J. L. B. Smith)
    species was described in 1967 by the South African ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897-1968) with the type locality given as Knysna. Trachinotus...
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