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Black kingfishes

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3052/
 
Title Black kingfishes
 
Creator Pillai, P K Mahadevan
 
Subject Fisheries Resources Assessment
 
Description Rachycentron canadus (Linnaeus) (=Elecate nigra) popularly called black kingfish is the only representative
Of the family, Rachycentridae. It is also known as cobia, surgeon fish and lemonfish. It is reported to occur in all the warm seas except along the coasts off southern Australia in the Indo-Pacific area and the Pacific coast of North America and is rarely reported along the Japanese coast. These fishes are pelagic in nature and prefer largely the open seas, but are also recorded in shallow coral reefs and rocky shores.Occasionally they are reported to lurk near pilings,wrecks, buoys or other objects, stationary or floating.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1982-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3052/1/Article_05.pdf
Pillai, P K Mahadevan (1982) Black kingfishes. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 39. p. 12.