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Observations on the distribution and biology of a few bathypelagic fishes from the South-West Coast of India

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Title Observations on the distribution and biology of a few bathypelagic
fishes from the South-West Coast of India
 
Creator Mathew, Grace
Jayasankar, P
Sivakami, S
Narayanaswamy, J
 
Subject Pelagic Fishes
 
Description This paper dads with the biology, distribution and abundance of a few bathypelagio fw
viz. Psenopsis obscura Hecldrich, Trlchiurus auriga Klunzinger, Chlorophthalmus agassizi Bonaparte,
Neoepinnuh orientalis Oilohrilt and van Bonde and Ariomma indica (Day, based on the oolldon mado
by FORV Sagar Sampada. In the he bd~bstwscdl latitudes 8"30' N to 1039' N and longitude 7595' E to
763TE, off Ponnani to Triv-at depthsbeyond 300 m, thm bathypelagio fishes conrtituted 98% of
the tobltrawl catoh of 36 t of the total fish oatch: Psenopsis obscura 46.37% Trichiurus auriga 13.46%
Chlorophthalmus spp. 18.2O/6, N. oriantalis 1.8%, and A. indica 0.5% The rize of C. agassizi ranged
from 150 to 230 mm.C. bicornia from 213 to 395 nun, Psenopsis obscura from 141 to 215 mm, T.
auriga fmm215 to 395 mm adA. indlca fiom 105 to 171 mm. The length-weight relationship of these
species wan also worked out.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1993
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/471/1/Vol_40_No_4%3B207-212.pdf
Mathew, Grace and Jayasankar, P and Sivakami, S and Narayanaswamy, J (1993) Observations on the distribution and biology of a few bathypelagic fishes from the South-West Coast of India. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 40 (4). pp. 207-212.