Report on the rare quagga cat shark landed

Ambarish, Gop P and Kingsly, H Jose and Zacharia, P U (2017) Report on the rare quagga cat shark landed. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (233). pp. 28-29. ISSN 0254-380 X

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Abstract

Quagga catshark, Halaelurus quagga (Alcock, 1899) one of the rarest sharks in the family Scyliorhinidae (Order Carcharhiniformes) was observed at Muttom landing centre, Tamil Nadu on June 5 2017. It was landed as a bycatch in the demersal-trawl operated off Muttom at 150-200 m depths. The male specimen collected measured 298 mm in total length (TL) and its morphometrics were recorded

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: rare shark; quagga cat shark; landing; Halaelurus quagga
Subjects: Demersal Fisheries > Shark fisheries
Marine Fisheries > Fish landing
Divisions: CMFRI-Vizhinjam
Depositing User: Arun Surendran
Date Deposited: 26 Jun 2018 04:46
Last Modified: 26 Jun 2018 04:46
URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/12898

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