Original scientific paper
MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MYLOPHARYNGODON PICEUS (RICHARDSON, 1845) (CYPRINIDAE, PISCES) FROM SCADAR LAKE
Marijana Krivokapić
; OOUR Biološki Zavod, Titograd
Drago Marić
; OOUR Biološki Zavod, Titograd
Abstract
This work is a contribution to the study of morpho-logical-taxonomic characteristics of Mylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1845) from Scadar Lake.
Material was gathered in Scadar Lake in subla-custric source Raduš in January 1989. 26 morpho-metric and 9 meristic characters were treated on 43 specimen according Vuković's and Ivanović's scheme (1971). Postdorsal and postcentral distance and the length of a tail three was measured in a straight line to be more precise.
We must particularly underline that Mylopharyngodon piceus has, comparing it hith other similar autochthonous species, bigger inter-eyes area which makes 54,2% of a head length while the least value is 50,9%. Blacks grass carp is similar to Leuciscus cephalus (L.), but it differs from it because it has darker body, less mouth bigger inter-eye area, bigger anteanal distance, less tail tree etc.
The body length of black grass carp varies from 114,0 to 273,0 mm and up to the present has not been found a bigger specimen. But in literature we can find that it can have the body length up to 1 m. (Berg 1949; Zašev 1961). This fact shows us that non grown up specimen were treated in above mentioned experiment. The results can be seen on the tables 1 and 2.
Keywords
Morphological characteristics; Mylopharyngodon piceus; Skadar lake
Hrčak ID:
77112
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Publication date:
20.6.1990.
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