“…The larval community of the Algoa Bay surf zones resembles that of other surf zone habitats within the same geographical province of South Africa. The number of species in these assemblages are comparable to those recorded for surf zones of other areas including Japan, 18 species (Senta & Kinoshita, ) to 100 species (Suda et al , ); Taiwan, 47 species (Yang & Senta, ); New Jersey, 47 species (Able et al , ); Gulf of Mexico, 69 species (Ruple, ); Brazil, 29 species (Godefroid et al , ); Mauritius, 112 species (Sato et al , ) and south‐western Australia, 95 species (Ayvazian & Hyndes, ). Several fish families are shared between this study and other studies, with three families, namely the Engraulidae, Gobiidae and Mugilidae, cosmopolitan to all surf zones.…”