On a record of Epinnula orientalis Gilchrist & Von Bonde, a bathypelagic fish, from the Konkan Coast

Rao, K V Narayana (1964) On a record of Epinnula orientalis Gilchrist & Von Bonde, a bathypelagic fish, from the Konkan Coast. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 7 (1). pp. 217-218.

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Abstract

During the fifteenth cruise of R. V. VARUNA in August 1962 to the Karwar Ratnagiri section of the Arabian Sea it was possible to conduct some experimental fishing. In one of the hauls made at a place (14 "49' N; 72° 50' E.) with the midwater trawl from a depth of 300 meters, one specimen of EpinnuJa orientalis Gilchrist & yon Bonde (92 mm. in total length and 73 mm. in standard length) was captured along with several other deep water fishes mostly belonging to the families Myctophidae and Chauliodontidae.

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