Report on egg mass of Hound needle fish Tylosurus crocodilus

Ratheesh Kumar, R and Sruthy, V L and Padua, Shelton and Sajeela, K A and Lavanya, R and Joseph, Reena V and Parvathy, R and Rohit, Prathibha (2022) Report on egg mass of Hound needle fish Tylosurus crocodilus. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series (252). pp. 28-29. ISSN 0254-380X

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Abstract

During an oceanographic cruise of ICAR-CMFRI on board FV Silver Pompano on November 2021, a bunch of pale-yellow spherical egg consisting of about thousand numbers connected by strong filaments on the chorion were obtained while undertaking experimental trawling in off Kochi region at 20-meter depth (Fig 1). After taking photographs and enumeration of the egg bunch, a small sub sample was taken for further analysis and the remaining eggs were released back into the sea immediately. The collected egg samples were preserved in 95% ethanol and brought to lab for further analysis. Preserved eggs were observed and photographed in the lab by Nikon SMZ 25 stereo zoom microscope.

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