Suresh Kumar, K and Kannan, K and Ranjith, L and Sivadas, M and Madan, M S (2013) Large sized oilfish Ruvettus pretiosus (Cocco, 1833) ever recorded from Gulf of Mannar, south-east coast of India. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). pp. 23-24.
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Abstract
Ruvettus pretiosus belonging to the Family Gempylidae of perciform fishes is closely related to Scombridae. Gempylidae fishes are commonly called as snake mackerels or escolars and this family has 16 genus and 24 valid species. R. pretiosus is one of the large sized fishes with the maximum record of 300 cm total length (Nakamura and Parin, 1993). It is bentho-pelagic, reported to be distributed along the tropical and temperate seas of the world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Large sized oilfish; Ruvettus pretiosus; Gulf of Mannar; south-east coast of India |
| Subjects: | Demersal Fishes |
| Divisions: | CMFRI-Tuticorin |
| Depositing User: | Arun Surendran |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2013 08:13 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2015 15:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/9433 |
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