OBSERVATIONS ON SEX PROPORTIONS AND MATURITY TRENDS IN CYNOGLOSSUS BILINEATUS (LACEPEDE) AND C. MACROLEPIDOTUS (BLEEKER) AT CALICUT DURING 1968-73


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  • G Seshappa 865,III Cross Road, Srirampura, Bangalore 560021

Abstract

Occasional specimens of C. macrolepidotus and C. bilineatus noticed in random
sample's of the iMalabar sole were examined from 1968 to 1973. Males,
females and indetenminates formed 30.1%, 34.2% and 14.0%, respectively, in
C. macrolepidotus and 45.0%, 44.0% and 5.0%, respectively, in C. bilineatus. In
the former species, 95.2% of the females were in stage I while only 1% were in
stage IM, 4% in stage IV and nil in other maturity stages. In the latter species
70.5% of the females were in stage I, 4.6% each-in stages HI and V, 6.8% in stage
11 and 12.5% in stage IV.

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Author Biography

  • G Seshappa, 865,III Cross Road, Srirampura, Bangalore 560021
    865,III Cross Road, Srirampura, Bangalore 560021

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Vol. 27 No. 1 & 2 (1980)

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Seshappa, G. (2011). OBSERVATIONS ON SEX PROPORTIONS AND MATURITY TRENDS IN CYNOGLOSSUS BILINEATUS (LACEPEDE) AND C. MACROLEPIDOTUS (BLEEKER) AT CALICUT DURING 1968-73. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 27(1 & 2), 209-214. https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJF/article/view/11997