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Mustelus mustelus
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Mustelus mustelus
TL ranged between 55 and 133 cm for males and between 50 and 141 cm for females. Common TL ranged from 73 to 88 cm for males and from 77 to 100 cm for females. This species was founded in all months of year. Females constituted 57.7% of species catches. Its caught appeared a significant difference between seasons (X 2 = 11.600, P = 0.009), peak of season landing was in winter (Fig. 2d), while a high percentage of juveniles was recorded in spring (Fig. 3d). According to [7] males and females of M. mustelus (Syrian coast) species matured at 101 cm and 105 cm TL , respectively. Thus, immature males and females contributed 90% and 83% of species catches (Fig. 4d).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Triakidae
- Genus
- Mustelus
- Species
- mustelus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Alkusairy & Saad, 2018
References
- [7] Ali F. M., Reproductive biology and feeding of two cartilaginous fish Mustelus mustelus and Rhiobatos cemiculus in Syrian marine waters, PH. D. Thesis Tishreen University. Syria. Pp. 182 (2009) (In Arabic with abstract in English).