Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India

Morphometric characteristics of deepwater stingray Plesiobatis daviesi (Wallace, 1967) collected from the Andaman Sea

Volume 51 Issue 2

K. V. Akhilesh, Hashim Manjebrayakath, U. Ganga, N. G. K. Pillai and Manju Sebastine

Abstract

The present paper reports on the morphometric characteristics of two specimens of Plesiobatis daviesi collected during the deep-sea fishery resource survey of FORV Sagar Sampada in the northeastern Andaman Sea off Diglipur (13° 14 N lat; 93° 09� E long.) at 320 m depth and off Mayabandar (12° 48� N lat; 93° 07� E long.) at 369 m depth.

Keywords

Andaman Sea, deepwater stingray, Plesiobatis daviesi

Date : 22-02-2010