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On the composition of talassobathyal ichthyofauna and commercial productivity of Mozambique Seamount (the Indian Ocean)

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Ichthyofauna of the Mozambique Seamount of the Indian Ocean, judging from the results of YugNIRO from the 1970s to the 1980s numbers about 130 species of bathyal and bathyal-pelagic fish that belong to 44 families. Most species belong to the families Macrouridae (16), Alepocephalidae (14), Ophidiidae (13), Squalidae (8), and Gempylidae (6). Among them, the greatest numbers and prospects of commercial importance, as over other seamounts, have about ten species: Centroscymnus coelolepis (Somniosidae), Etmopterus granulosus (Etmopteridae), Diastobranchus capensis and Synaphobranchus oregoni (Synaphobranchuidae), Alepocephalus australis, A. productus, and Rouleina attrita (Alepocephalidae), Cetonurus globiceps (Macrouridae), and Allocyttus verrucosus (Oreosomatidae); to the number of potential items of fishery one can also assign Hydrolagus africanus (Chimaeridae), Chlamydoselachus anguinus (Chlamydoselachidae), Apristurus indicus (Scyliorhinidae), Halosaurospis microchir (Halosauridae), Bathytyphlops marionae (Ipnopidae), Coelorhinchus acanthiger, and Coryphaenoides striatura (Macrouridae), Antimora rostrata (Moridae), Lamprogrammus niger and Selachophidium guentheri (Ophidiidae), and Holostethus atlanticus (Trachichthyidae). Pelagic deep-water fish (Gonostomatidae, Sternoptychidae, Myctophidae, etc.) apparently do not form aggregations having a commercial importance.

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IORAN), Moscow, Russia

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  2. Southern Research Institute of Marine Fish Husbandry and Oceanography (YugNIRO), Kerch, Ukraine

    I. G. Timokhin

  3. Kerch State Marine Technological University (KGMTU), Kerch, Ukraine

    N. P. Novikov

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Parin, I.G. Timokhin, N.P. Novikov, Yu.N. Shcherbachev, 2008, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2008, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 309–314.

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Parin, N.V., Timokhin, I.G., Novikov, N.P. et al. On the composition of talassobathyal ichthyofauna and commercial productivity of Mozambique Seamount (the Indian Ocean). J. Ichthyol. 48, 361–366 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945208050019

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