Length-weight relationship of three stomatopod species from the Mumbai coast, India

Crustaceana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (9) ◽  
pp. 1141-1149
Author(s):  
S. Kesavan ◽  
J. S. Jenishma ◽  
T. Nirmal ◽  
S. S. Kamath ◽  
K. M. Xavier ◽  
...  

Abstract Length-weight relationship (LWR) was estimated for three stomatopod species, namely Oratosquillina perpensa (Kemp, 1911), Harpiosquilla raphidea (Fabricius, 1798) and Miyakella nepa (Latreille, 1828) for the first time from the north-eastern Arabian Sea. Experimental fishing, using a shrimp trawl, was conducted fortnightly during September 2017 up to April 2018 along the Maharashtra coast. A total of 821 samples were collected. Length-weight relationship showed good fit with coefficient of determination () values varying from 0.9190 to 0.9612. In this study, b values ranged from 2.758 to 3.140. The LWRs of Oratosquillina perpensa and Miyakella nepa have not yet been reported in the SealifeBase.

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (7) ◽  
pp. 1469-1473
Author(s):  
Jini Jacob ◽  
P.R. Anilkumar ◽  
Rosamma Philip ◽  
Damodaran Rayaroth

A novel species of nematode belonging to the rare genus Psammonema Verschelde & Vincx, 1995 is described from the continental margin of the north-eastern Arabian Sea (214 m). Psammonema kuriani sp. nov. shows a different position of the lateral alae compared with the original genus diagnosis, hence an emended genus diagnosis is given. The genus Psammonema was previously described from the estuarine sediments of Indian Ocean region and the present study reports the genus from the deep sea for the first time.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Gladston ◽  
K. V. Akhilesh ◽  
C. Thakurdas ◽  
O. P. K. Ravi ◽  
S. M. Ajina ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
S. Kumar ◽  
R. Ramesh

Abstract. A temporal increase of ~5‰ in the average nitrogen isotopic composition (δ15NPON) of surface particulate organic nitrogen was observed in the open north-eastern Arabian Sea during January to late February-early March 2003, despite the presence of T. erithraeum (up to ~11%), a diazotroph that fixes atmospheric N2, in the latter period. Hydrographic conditions and residence time of nitrate in the water column suggested that this increase could be a combined effect of denitrification in the subsurface layer and inefficient utilization of nitrate entrained in the water column during January.


Symbiosis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. B. Padmakumar ◽  
Lathika Cicily ◽  
Anu Shaji ◽  
T. P. Maneesh ◽  
V. N. Sanjeevan

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Purushottama ◽  
Thakurdas . ◽  
V. Ramasubramanian ◽  
Gnyanaranjan Dash ◽  
K. V. Akhilesh ◽  
...  

Information on reproductive biology is presented for the grey sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon oligolinx Springer, 1964 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes), collected off the north-west coast of India in the Arabian Sea. A total of 711 individuals, of 27.0 to 93.0 cm total length (TL), 180 to 2600 g total weight (TW) were used for the study. The lengthweight relationships were significantly different between the sexes. The size-at  maturity (Lm50) for females and males was estimated to be 62.3 and 59.5 cm TL respectively. Number of embryos ranged from 1 to 7 and the size at birth was estimated between 25 to 30 cm TL. Overall sex ratio favoured the females slightly at the rate of 1.27:1. There was significant positive correlation between maternal TL and number of embryos (p<0.001). Dietary analysis of stomach contents (%IRI) revealed that R. oligolinx feeds primarily on teleosts (95.5%), cephalopods (3.2%) and crustaceans (1.2%). This study presents the first detailed biological observation on size, sex composition, size-at-maturity (Lm50) and length-weight relationship of R. oligolinx from the northern Arabian Sea.


2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 105858
Author(s):  
H. Midhun shah ◽  
B.R. Smitha ◽  
A.A. Mohamed Hatha ◽  
M. Sudhakar

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