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First record of Silver moony, Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh

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Title First record of Silver moony, Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758)
from Visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh
 
Creator Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
Das, Madhumita
Uma Mahesh, V
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
Krishna, Jonna
 
Subject New record
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description A specimen of Monodactylus argenteus (Fig. 1)
was collected from the commercial trawler at
Visakhapatnam fishing harbour on 6th August 2013.
After detailed morphological examination, the
specimen was fixed with 5% formalin and deposited
at the marine fish museum of VRC of CMFRI,
Visakhapatnam. The morphometric measurements
were taken to the nearest mm and the specimen
identified as M. argenteus is the first report on its
occurrence along Visakhapatnam, east coast of India
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9613/1/9.pdf
Behera, Pralaya Ranjan and Das, Madhumita and Uma Mahesh, V and Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Krishna, Jonna (2013) First record of Silver moony, Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (217). pp. 11-12.