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On some interesting fishes from the southwest coast of India

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Title On some interesting fishes from the southwest coast of India
 
Creator Kuthalingam, M D K
Rajagopalan, M S
Sreenivasan, P V
Lazarus, S
Livingston, P
 
Subject Fish and Fisheries
 
Description The marine fish fauna occurring at Vizhinjam usually consists of a variety of interesting species and this note deals with the diagnostic characters of nine species of
fishes which were collected during field trips. These are: Velifer africanus, Samaris cristatus, Aspidonotus tractus, Uraspis helvola, Thyrsoidea macrura, Chihmyeterus
orbicularis, Diodon hystrix, D. holacanthus and D, maculifer. Of these Velifer africanus is a new record to the Indian Seas. Thyrsoidea macrura described herein isthelongest specimen of giant moray eel hitherto recorded.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1973
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1786/1/Kuthalingam_877-881.pdf
Kuthalingam, M D K and Rajagopalan, M S and Sreenivasan, P V and Lazarus, S and Livingston, P (1973) On some interesting fishes from the southwest coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 15 (2). pp. 877-881.