Relationship between different linear dimensions of scale parameters of four species of Mugilidae from Karachi Coast, Pakistan | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries | ||
| Article 53, Volume 25, Issue 4, July and August 2021, Pages 871-881 PDF (528.69 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejabf.2021.195826 | ||
| Author | ||
| Zubia Masood et al. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present investigation was conducted to work out linear regression relationships among six parameters scale length (TLS), scale width (WDS), number of ctenii found in horizontal (HRS)and vertical rows (VRS) on the scale, total radii counts (RDS), the vertical distance between focus and outer posterior edge of scale (Rs) in four commercially important mugilid species viz., Liza melinoptera, Liza macrolepis, Valamugil speigleri and Mugil cephalus)of family Mugilidae. The obtained results revealed that the most correlations between scale length (TLS) or width (WDS) with the selected scale parameters (HRS, VRS & Rs) were found to be weak (r < 0.50) and highly significant at 5% level (t-test; p < 0.05). Thus, the present study adopted to focus the implication of some functional scale characters that could be used as valuable alternative tools in observing the systematic relationship between different genera or species or geographical variants of family Mugilidae. | ||
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