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On a bramble shark with 52 embryos

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4601/
 
Title On a bramble shark with 52 embryos
 
Creator Joel, J J
Ebenezer, I P
 
Subject Shark fisheries
 
Description The bramble shark is known to be a deep water species, also occurring in shallow water and along continental slopes at depths from 18 to 900 m. two female specimens of
the bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus measuring 262 and 220 cm total length and weighing respecitively 120 and 80 kg were caught off Thoothoor, a fishing village of
Kanyakumari district, by hooks and line at about 100 m depth. The present specimen, caught in October, had at least 52 well-developed embryos.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1991-02
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4601/1/Article_08.pdf
Joel, J J and Ebenezer, I P (1991) On a bramble shark with 52 embryos. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 108. p. 15.