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International Journal of Marine Science 2014, Vol.4, No.25, 227-230
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New record of the keeltail pomfret,
Taractes rubescens
(Jordan & Evermann,
1887) (Perciformes: Bramidae) from the Sea of Oman
Laith A. Jawad
1
, Juma M. Al-Mamry
2
, Haithem K. Al-Busaidi
2
1. Manukau City, Auckland, New Zealand
2. Marine Science and Fisheries centre, Ministry of agriculture and Fisheries, Muscat, Oman
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International Journal of Marine Science, 2014, Vol.4, No.25 doi: 10.5376/ijms.2014.04.0025
Received: 13 Feb., 2014
Accepted: 19 Mar., 2014
Published: 27 Apr., 2014
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Jawad et al., 2014, New record of the keeltail pomfret,
Taractes rubescens
(Jordan & Evermann, 1887) (Perciformes: Bramidae) from the Sea of Oman,
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230 (doi: 10.5376/ijms.2014.04.0025)
Abstract
A specimen of the keeltail pomfret
Taractes rubescens
(890 mm) was collected from off the coast of
Muscat City,
Sultanate of Oman on the Sea of Oman and constitutes the first record in
the Sea of Oman and northern extension in its range.
Keywords
Sea of Oman; New records; Keeltail pomfret; Range extension
Introduction
The Family Bramidae comprises 20 species in seven
genera (Mead, 1972; Mundy, 2005; Thompson, 2003).
Although the members of the Family Bramidae are
distributed world-wide, the only record of a bramid
species from the northwestern Indian Ocean is that of
Ali and McNoon (2010) from the Aden Gulf, Arabian
Sea., No previous record of any members of the
family Bramidae is present in the Omani waters
(Randall, 1995; Manilo and Bogorodsky, 2003).
In this paper we report on the occurrence of the
keeltail pomfret,
Taractes rubescens
in the waters of
Sea of Oman. This record represents the north east
extension of the distribution of this species, the
second record of a bramid species in the northern
part of the Indian Ocean and the first record for the
Omani waters.
Materials and Methods
The specimen was obtained by long line at 200 m
depth over sandy-muddy bottom off the coast of
Muscat City in the Sea of Oman (Figure 1).
Morphometric and meristic details
were recorded
following Fischer and Bianchi (1984) and Carvalho-Filo
et al. (2009); the data are presented in Table 1.
Standard length (SL), from tip of snout to base of
caudal fin, was used for proportional measurements,
and total length (TL) for the maximum length of
specimens. Fish specimen was fixed in 10% formalin
and stored in 70% ethanol. Measurements were made
with ruler dial callipers to the nearest cm. The
specimen was deposited in the fish collection of
the
Marine Science and Fisheries Centre, Ministry
of
Fisheries Wealth, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman,
catalogue number OMMSTC 1230.
Figure 1
Site of collection of
Taractes rubescens
from the Sea
of Oman, Sultanate of Oman
Results
(Jordan & Evermann, 1887)
(Figure 2, a,b; Table 1).
Steinegeria
rubescens
Jordan & Evermann 1887:467
[type locality: Off Pensacola, Florida, Gulf of Mexico,
U. S. A.