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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India

Volume 18 Issue 3

Record of the sunfish Masturus oxyuropterus (Bleeker) from the Indian Coast.

M. Devaraj, P. Nammalwar and R. Thiagarajan
Abstract

The sunfish Masturus oxyuropterus (Bleeker) is reported for the first time from the Indian Coast. The morphological features of the present specimen from the Gulf of Mannar and the distribution of this species are dealt with. The liver of the fish was found infested with seventy-two blastocysts of the cestode, Molicola horridus (Goodsir).

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Date : 31-12-1976