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First Record of Strongspine Silver-Biddy Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801) (Pisces: Gerreidae) from Iraqi Marine Territorial Waters | ||
| Basrah Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 26, 1 (special Issue), 2013, Pages 178-183 PDF (0 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.33762/bagrs.2013.111654 | ||
| Author | ||
| Atheer H. Ali | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Seven specimens of strongspine silver-biddy Gerres longirostris (Lacepède, 1801) were collected from marine territorial water of Iraq near Khor Al-Ummiah during December 2012 and February 2013. Meristic and morphometric characters expressed as percentage of standard length of this species was given. This species is easy distinguished from other two gerreid [G. filamentosus Cuvier, 1829 and G. oyena (Forsskål)] known from Iraq by absence of an elongated second dorsal spine and having less percentage of body depth to standard length in the former (33-37.8 in compared to 42.9-51.4) and from G. oyena by having both higher counts of pored lateral line scales (44-46 in compared to 35-39) and higher number of scale rows above lateral line (6-7.5 in compared to 4.5-5.5). The present records bring the total number of Gerres species in Iraq to three species. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Gerres longirostris; Gerreidae; Marine fish; First Record; Iraq | ||
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