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Record of a rare Sharp-tail sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus Liénard, 1840 (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) landing from South-west coast of India

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Title Record of a rare Sharp-tail sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus Liénard, 1840
(Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) landing from South-west coast of India
 
Creator Nair, Rekha J
Sijo Paul,
Dinesh Kumar, S
 
Subject Fish landing
 
Description The family Molidae comprises epipelagic fish
commonly known as molas or ocean sunfish, which
are distributed in warm, tropical waters in all the
oceans (Matsuura, 2002). Among the sunfishes
described, Masturus lanceolatus is considered rare
on the Indian coast. Four species described in this
family are:Ranzania laevis (Pennant 1776), Mola
mola (Linnaeus 1758), Masturus lanceolatus
(Liénard 1840) and Mola ramsayi (Giglioli 1883),
which is restricted to the southern hemisphere
(Parenti 2003; Bass et al., 2005). M. lanceolatus,
commonly known as the sharptail mola, has broad
distribution in the western Atlantic, occurring from
Nova Scotia to south-eastern Brazil.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9921/1/4.pdf
Nair, Rekha J and Sijo Paul, and Dinesh Kumar, S (2013) Record of a rare Sharp-tail sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus Liénard, 1840 (Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) landing from South-west coast of India. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (218). p. 7.