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Landing of pelagic oceanic species are very rear specially rounded and elongate body shape fishes which normally escape in pelagic gillnets. This is the first confirmed record of pelagic oceanic species Gempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829 commonly called as snake mackerel from Pakistani waters. A sample measuring 83 cm collected from Karachi fish harbor...
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... Information about ribbonfish from Pakistan is limited and usually included in the list of described species occurring in Pakistan (Ahmad, 1988;Ahmad et al., 1973;Anonymous, 1955;Bianchi, 1985;Hoda, 1985Hoda, , 1988Hussain, 2003: Jaleel and Khalil, 1973, 1981: Majid, et al., 1992Psomadakis et al., 2015;Qureshi, 1969). Osmany et al. (2019) reported Gempylus serpens from the Pakistan coast whereas Zohra et al. (2020) reported Lepidocybium flavobrunneum from the Pakistan coast. Only limited studies have been made on any other aspects of biology of the ribbonfish along the coast of Pakistan. ...
... Its holotype (MNHN A-0808) is housed in Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris, France (Frickle et al., 2024). It was reported from Pakistan by Osmany et al. (2019), Froese and Pauly (2024), and from Exclusive Economic Zone (Nakamura and Parin, 1993). This species is known as circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (Heemstra, 2022b). ...
Families Scombrolabracidae, Gempylidae and Trichiuridae are represented by 1, 4 and 7 species respectively in Pakistan. All these species are benthopelagic and found on the continental shelf and slope areas. Two species Savalani hairtail (Lepturacanthus savala) and largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) are two common and commercially important species contributing substantially to the landings and export in Pakistan. L.savala is reported to be more abundant on the Sindh coast whereas T. lepturus is more common on Balochistan coast. Both species are harvested throughout the year in Pakistan using handline, longline, bottom-set gillnets and trawling. Tentoriceps cristatus is also rarely represented in commercial catches. Remaining species of three families are of rare occurrence. The paper are review the status of stocks of commercially important species of Family Trichuridae and made management advice.
... In general, records for G. serpens occur with the capture of a single specimen, even when nets are used as fishing gear (Lopes et al., 2003;Myoung et al., 2013;Osmany et al., 2019). For this reason, it can be considered a solitary species. ...
The presence of three adult specimens of the Snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829 (with 564-743 mm of standard length), on the southern coast of Veracruz, Mexico, has been recorded. Their morphological and meristic characteristics are presented here, and these characteristics concur with the ones
found in the western Atlantic. The presence, as well as the wide distribution and aggregation of the species in the southern Gulf of Mexico are confirmed
... A good number of the species are of brownish or blackish color (Nakamura and Parin 1993). Previously two species Neoepinnula orentalis, Gilchrist and Von Bond, 1924 and Gempylus serpensis Cuvier, 1829 were reported from Pakistan (Osmany et al. 2019).Present paper reports another species Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, Smith, 1843 for the first time from Pakistani waters with complete profile. ...
Five specimens of escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) were collected for the first time from Karachi Fish Harbor, Pakistan in March 2019. These specimens were caught by surface gillnet from the Khori Great Bank (Sindh coast) on 18 th March 2019 at a depth between 490 to 560 m. This is a new addition to the fish fauna of Pakistani water. Study was carried out with comprehensive profile.
