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Diversity and distribution of cardinal fishes in Indian coastal waters with an occurrence report of spot fin cardinal fish Apogon queketti from Central south west coast of India
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http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11637/
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Diversity and distribution of cardinal fishes in Indian coastal waters with an occurrence report of spot fin cardinal fish Apogon queketti from Central south west coast of India |
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Saravanan, Raju
Purushottama, G B Rohit, Prathibha |
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Demersal Fishes |
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The family Apogonidae is a specious family with 346 species, in which most of them marine and some thrive in brackish water. These are commonly referred to as cardinal fishes, which seldom reaches a maximum size of 20cm . Sixty five species of this family have been reported from Indian waters. Apogon queketti is a valid species and two taxa have been synonymized with this viz., Apogonichthys queketti and Jaydia queketti. The genus Apogon which contains 108 valid species are mostly marine, living on sandy and muddy bottom of the continental shelf. |
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Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
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2017
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NonPeerReviewed |
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text
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en
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http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11637/1/Diversity%20and%20distribution%20of%20cardinal%20fishes%20in%20Indian%20coastal%20waters_R%20Saravanan_2017.pdf
Saravanan, Raju and Purushottama, G B and Rohit, Prathibha (2017) Diversity and distribution of cardinal fishes in Indian coastal waters with an occurrence report of spot fin cardinal fish Apogon queketti from Central south west coast of India. [Image] |
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