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On an unusual massive recruitment of the reef fish Ctenochaetes strigosus (Bennet) (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) to the Minicoy atoll and its significance

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Title On an unusual massive recruitment of the reef fish
Ctenochaetes strigosus (Bennet) (Perciformes:
Acanthuridae) to the Minicoy atoll and its significance
 
Creator Pillai, C S G
Mohan, Madan
Kunhikoya, K K
 
Subject Coral Reefs
Marine Biodiversity
 
Description A sudden influx, and subsequent settlement, of C. strigosus in enormous
numbers in the lagoon and on reef flats of Minicoy island, where, but for a couple
of specimens dealt with by Jones and Kumaran (1980, this species was almost
unknown, is reported. The fish, ranging in length from 50 to 82 mm, which had
been obviously leading thus far a pelagic life, were in stages past postlarval, and
were already in the process of metamorphosing into adult, with gonads in stages
up to Stage III maturity.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1983
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/491/1/Article_09.pdf
Pillai, C S G and Mohan, Madan and Kunhikoya, K K (1983) On an unusual massive recruitment of the reef fish Ctenochaetes strigosus (Bennet) (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) to the Minicoy atoll and its significance. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 30 (2). pp. 261-268.