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On a large sunfish Ranzania typus from the Southwest coast

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Title On a large sunfish Ranzania typus from the
Southwest coast
 
Creator Ebenezer, I P
Joel, J J
 
Subject Demersal Fisheries
 
Description A sunfish (or trunkfish), Ranzania typus, measuring 616 mm total length and a maximum depth of
310 mm was caught at Erayumanthurai on the southwest coast (Kanyakumari district, Tamil
nadu) on 2-3-1984 in a shore seine. The gear had operated a distance of 1 km from the shore, up
to a depth of 22 m. Coloured bluish, tending towards dark above and to silvery below, it had a
smooth skin with small hexagonal plates. Six streaks of lighter colour with darker borders,
emanated from near the dorsal margin between the snout and the gill slit, curved downwards to
the ventral profile. The posterior three streaks were branched and contained dark spots, mostly
round. Lips were produced forwards beyond teeth as a funnel, closing in a vertical slit.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1984
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/458/1/Article_9.pdf
Ebenezer, I P and Joel, J J (1984) On a large sunfish Ranzania typus from the Southwest coast. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 31 (3). pp. 360-361.