Sucker Fish (Spearfish Remora) Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) Rare Occurrence in Mumbai Waters
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Sucker Fish (Spearfish Remora) Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) Rare Occurrence in Mumbai Waters |
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Creator |
Das, Thakur
Sundaram, Sujit |
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Rare occurrence
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Description |
Sucker fishes generally attach (themselves to many different marine vertebrates including sharks, rays, tarpons, barracudas, sailfishes, marlins, swordfishes, jacks, basses, groupers, ocean sunfish, sea turtles, whales and dolphins. The Family Echeneidae to which sucker fishes belong is divisible into two subfamilies, four genera and eight species, seven of which occur in the Western Indian Ocean (Fischer and Bianchi, 1984). |
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Fishing Chimes Office, Visakhapatnam
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Date |
2010
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Article
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text
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en
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http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16722/1/Fishing%20Chimes_2009_Sujit%20Sundaram_Vol%2029%20%2810%29.pdf
Das, Thakur and Sundaram, Sujit (2010) Sucker Fish (Spearfish Remora) Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) Rare Occurrence in Mumbai Waters. Fishing Chimes, 29 (10). p. 21. |
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