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Catalogue of Fishes from the Laccadive Archipelago in the Reference Collections of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute.

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Title Catalogue of Fishes
from the Laccadive Archipelago
in the Reference Collections of the
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute.
 
Creator Jones, S
 
Subject Bibliography
CMFRI Bulletins
Marine Fisheries
 
Description During the early years of this Institute the emphasis was rightly placed on the
collection and identification of the more economically important and common species
of fishes occurring in the coastal waters of the mainland of India for reference purposes.
In recent years, however, the workers here have covered a wider field and have been
able to increase appreciably our knowledge of the ichthyofauna of our seas by adding
to the collections several new or little known species. At present over 600 species are
available in the general collections of this Institute and a catalogue of the same will be
published as one of the future Bulletins. The present Bulletin lists 527 species of fishes
from the Laccadives alone.
Of the areas within the Indian Union, the Laccadive Archipelago had remained
little known from the ichthyological point of view till very recently. In the monumental
work of Francis Day on the “Fishes of India”, in which nearly 1400 species are dealt
with, not a single species is recorded from the Laccadives. What little information we
have since then has been based mainly on the pioneering work of Alcock during the
cruises of I.N.S. Investigator towards the close of the last century. When the study on
the fish and fisheries of the Laccadive Archipelago was initiated by me about 15 years
ago hardly about 50 species, mostly bathypelagic, were known from there and no
specimen from the area was available in the Institute’s collections. Over 500 species
of fishes have been collected since then, making a total of nearly 600 species so far
recorded from the Laccadives, and this has in a way helped to make this one of the
intensively studied areas in the Indian Ocean. Several of the species listed in this
Bulletin are new records.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1969
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/569/1/Bulletin_8.pdf
Jones, S (1969) Catalogue of Fishes from the Laccadive Archipelago in the Reference Collections of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. Technical Report. CMFRI.