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On the large sunfish landed near Mandapam

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Title On the large sunfish landed near Mandapam
 
Creator Victor, A C C
Kandasamy, D
Ramamoorthy, N
 
Subject Demersal Fishes
 
Description A sunfish, Ranzania laevis (Pennant) measuring
660 mm total length was caught on 5.3.1998 in shoreseine
near Mandapam in Palk Bay. In fresh condition
its colour was bluish with dark above and pale white
below with small hexagonal plates and smooth skin.
Six streaks of lighter colour bordered with dark descended
from snout to gill slits and curved downwards to
the ventral profile. The posterior three streaks were
branched with dark spots. The lips were produced forward
beyond the teeth closing as a vertical slit.
 
Publisher CMFRI, Kochi
 
Date 1998
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4536/1/Article_14.pdf
Victor, A C C and Kandasamy, D and Ramamoorthy, N (1998) On the large sunfish landed near Mandapam. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 157. pp. 26-27.