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Occurrence of slender threadfin bream, Nemipterus zysron (Bleeker, 1856) (Perciformes: Nemipteridae), from Tuticorin Coast

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Title Occurrence of slender threadfin bream, Nemipterus zysron
(Bleeker, 1856) (Perciformes: Nemipteridae), from Tuticorin Coast
 
Creator Kannan, K
Ranjith, L
Suresh Kumar, K
Sathakathullah, S M
John James, K
Madan, M S
 
Subject Fish landing
Threadfin Breams
 
Description On 26thMarch, 2013 a single specimen of slender
threadfin bream, Nemipterus zysron (Bleeker, 1856)
with total length 247.4 mm was collected from
Punnakayal landing centre. This specimen was
caught by the gill net operated between 20 and 50
m depth at a distance of 25 to 40 nautical miles
from the shore. Occurrence of N. zysron is reported
for the first time from the Tuticorin coast.
Nemipteridae family has 5 genus and 65 species. In
contrast with other Nemipterus species, N. zysron
was easily identified in the field by the presence of
yellow stripes in front of eye through nostrils and
from upper lip to beneath the eye. Body slender
and elongated, body depth 3.84 times SL; snout
length equal to diameter of eye; diameter of eye
3.14 times head length; lower margin of eye just
above a line from tip of snout to upper base of
pectoral fin
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9491/1/19.pdf
Kannan, K and Ranjith, L and Suresh Kumar, K and Sathakathullah, S M and John James, K and Madan, M S (2013) Occurrence of slender threadfin bream, Nemipterus zysron (Bleeker, 1856) (Perciformes: Nemipteridae), from Tuticorin Coast. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (216). p. 20.