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


Abstract
Occasional specimens of C. macrolepidotus and C. bilineatus noticed in randomsample'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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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. Retrieved from https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJF/article/view/11997
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