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Unusual landing of the whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus at Cochin Fisheries Harbour

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9440/
 
Title Unusual landing of the whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus
at Cochin Fisheries Harbour
 
Creator Sobhana, K S
Seetha, P K
Kishore, T G
Divya, D D
Najmudeen, T M
Nair, Rekha J
Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe
Zacharia, P U
 
Subject Fish landing
Shark fisheries
 
Description T. obesus, the only member of its genus, is a small
shark usually not exceeding 1.6 m in length. This
species is easily recognisable by its slender body
and short but broad head, tubular skin flaps beside
the nostrils, and white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9440/1/21.pdf
Sobhana, K S and Seetha, P K and Kishore, T G and Divya, D D and Najmudeen, T M and Nair, Rekha J and Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe and Zacharia, P U (2013) Unusual landing of the whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus at Cochin Fisheries Harbour. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). pp. 31-32.