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Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2001 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 169-170
Research Article

First Records of Three Fishes from the Coastal Waters of Pakistan

Syed Ajazuddin
Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
Muzammil Ahmed
Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
This paper deals with the systematic study of three species of fishes collected by otter-trawling, beam trawling and gill-netting which are new to the coastal waters of Pakistan. The three species are Pisodonophis boro (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822), Muraenesox bagio (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822) and Siderea picta (Ahl, 1789). The occurrence, diagnosis, colour and geographical distribution of three species are described in this paper.
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