Cytotaxonomic Studies in Four Species of Genus Puntius (Hamilton, 1822) from Central India

Study of some morphometric and meristic characteristics of Alepes vari (Cuvier, 1833) collected from the Arabian coast

“…This might be because the ratio of increase in different morphometric characters with a complete body length from larval to adult stages may not always show similar consistency in their growth rates. Moreover, there are no significant variations were observed in linear relationships between total body length and all selected morphometric characters for males, females of Alepes vari of this study, which was in harmony with Begum et al (2008) and Saroniya et al (2013), who also found homogeneity in growth rates of various morphometric traits of males and females of Mystus gulio, Puntius chola and Puntius sophore with increment in total body length. Whereas, Tiwari and Qureshi (2003) had also observed the heterogeneity in growth rates of various morphometric traits of males and females of Rita pavimentata with total length and found slightly faster growth rates in some morphometric characters of females than males, which might be due to variations in their physiological activities.…”

“…The overall findings of linear regression relationships between total body length (TL) and all morphometric characters of males, females, and combined sexes of Alepes vari reveals strong and significant correlations (r>0.70; p<0.05) except the pectoral-fin height (PFH) and pelvicfin length (PelFL) that accessible a very weak or moderate type of correlation, as obtainable in Tables 3a, 4a and 5a respectively. Hence, the results of morphometric characters show a positive allometric growth pattern (A+), which reveals the direct relationship between total body length and growth of various body parts of this species, which was following Hoque (1984), Begum et al (2008) and Saroniya et al (2013). However, some workers like Marr (1955) and Tandon (1962) have also observed no significant relationships (p>0.05) between various morphometric characters with the total body length of fish.…”