Record Details

Rare landing of Indian mottled eel, Anguilla bengalensis (Gray, 1831) from coastal waters of Karwar

CMFRI Repository

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9629/
 
Title Rare landing of Indian mottled eel, Anguilla bengalensis (Gray, 1831)
from coastal waters of Karwar
 
Creator Vaidya, N G
Sonali, S M
Philipose, K K
 
Subject Rare occurrence
Fish landing
 
Description A large sized freshwater eel, locally called
‘hemmalaga’ in Kannada and ‘kadai’ in Konkani was
landed by shore-seine (Yendi) on 26-07-2013 at
Aligadda landing centre in Karwar. The fish was
caught live and was observed to be very active. The
specimen was identified as Indian mottled eel,
Anguilla bengalensis (Gray, 1831) of family
Anguillidae. The specimen was an adult female with
a total length of 142 cm and weight of 6.82 kg.
Other morphometric measurements recorded were
as follows: The dorsal fin length (96 cm), anal fin
length (78.5 cm), pectoral fin length (11.5 cm), girth
(32.5 cm), head length (29 cm) and head width (18
cm). The specimen appears to be the largest record
of Anguilla bengalensis caught in the Indian coastal
waters. The maximum reported length and weight
of this species published in FishBase’ is 200 cm and
6 kg. A total length of 120 cm for this species is
reported by Menon et al (1998). Although the length
of the present specimen is only 142 cm the weight
seems to be the maximum reported so far.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9629/1/30.pdf
Vaidya, N G and Sonali, S M and Philipose, K K (2013) Rare landing of Indian mottled eel, Anguilla bengalensis (Gray, 1831) from coastal waters of Karwar. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (217). p. 38.