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Occurrence of cockatoo righteye flounder, Samaris cristatus (Gray, 1831) along the Malabar coast

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Title Occurrence of cockatoo righteye flounder, Samaris cristatus (Gray, 1831) along the Malabar coast
 
Creator Manojkumar, P P
Pavithran, P P
 
Subject Flat Fishes
 
Description Flatfishes are readily distinguished from all other
fishes by their compressed body and head with
both eyes on the same side, either on the right or
left. They belong to the order Pleuronectiformes and
are divided into eleven families Achiridae,
Achiropsettidae, Bothidae, Citharidae,
Cynoglossidae, Paralichthyidae, Pleuronectidae,
Psettodidae, Samaridae, Scophthalmidae and
Soleidae. The fishes belonging to the family
Samaridae have eyes on the right side of head. They
occur in all the oceans and about 20 species
belonging to three genera are found worldwide.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 2009
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3861/1/7.Man.pdf
Manojkumar, P P and Pavithran, P P (2009) Occurrence of cockatoo righteye flounder, Samaris cristatus (Gray, 1831) along the Malabar coast. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 199. pp. 11-12.