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On the occurrence of the caridean prawn Thalassocaris lucida (Dana) in the stomach of Neothunnus macropterus (Temminck and Schlegel) from the Arabian Sea

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Title On the occurrence of the caridean prawn Thalassocaris lucida (Dana) in the stomach of Neothunnus
macropterus (Temminck and Schlegel) from the Arabian Sea
 
Creator George, M J
George, K C
 
Subject Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description On 8th January 1962, while on a regular research cruise of R. V. VARUNA, one specimen of a yellowfin tuna Neothunnus macropterus was caught on the trolling Une from a medium-sized shoal sighted outside the continental shelf oflF Quilon. The specimen was a male measuring 68, cm. in total length. On examination of the stomach it was found to be gorged with small-sized shrimp along with a few other items such as 1 small Caranx sp., 6 squids and 3 semi-digested unidentifiable
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1964
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1667/1/George_171-172.pdf
George, M J and George, K C (1964) On the occurrence of the caridean prawn Thalassocaris lucida (Dana) in the stomach of Neothunnus macropterus (Temminck and Schlegel) from the Arabian Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 6 (1). pp. 171-172.