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Pregnant female spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna (Muller & Henle, 1839) landed at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin

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Title Pregnant female spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna
(Muller & Henle, 1839) landed at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin
 
Creator Sivadas, M
Ranjith, L
Sathakathullah, S M
John James, K
Suresh Kumar, K
 
Subject Shark fisheries
 
Description Pelagic sting ray, Pteroplatytrygon violacea
(Boneparte, 1832) belongs to the family Dasyatidae
(largest stingray family) and the family comprises 8
genera and 89 valid species (Froese and Pauly, 2012).
In Indian waters, about 50 species of rays have been
recorded so far, of which 18 species belong to the family
Dasyatidae (Raje et al., 2002; 2007). In India, P. violacea
has been previously reported by Akhilesh et al. (2008)
and Zacharia et al. (2009).
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9428/1/9.pdf
Sivadas, M and Ranjith, L and Sathakathullah, S M and John James, K and Suresh Kumar, K (2013) Pregnant female spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna (Muller & Henle, 1839) landed at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). p. 18.