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Serranid Fishes of the Okinawa Islands (I)

Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University. Natural science Volume 23 Issue 2 Page 197-208
published_at 1973-10
Title
Serranid Fishes of the Okinawa Islands (I)
Creators Katayama Masao
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The author visited Okinawa for research of fishes durmg the period from 10 to 17 May, 1973 and collected many serranid fishes at the fish market in Naha and Itoman, where they are abundant and very important food fishes. In 1960, the author published the treatise on serranid fishes in Japan, in which, however, he omitted these fishes in the Okinawa Islands, which had been under the rule of the United States of America. The serranid fishes in the Okinawa Islands have been briefly described by JORDAN and STARKS(1907), SNYDER(1912), SCHMIDT(1930), AOYAGI(1942,'43,'49), KAMOHARA(1964) and GUSHlKEN(1972). In the present paper is given a detailed description of the species of Serranidae known to inhabit the waters of the Okinawa Islands. In the present study, the standard length means from the tip of the snout to the end of the hypural
Languages eng
Resource Type departmental bulletin paper
Publishers 山口大学教育学部
Date Issued 1973-10
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[ISSN]0513-1693
[NCID]AN00243950
Schools 教育学部