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Morphometric variations among three different populations of Cobia, Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus 1766) in Peninsular Malaysia


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S.M. Nurul Amin and Babatunde, T.A. and Ihab, M.M.M. and Usman, B. I. and Ara, R. (2016) Morphometric variations among three different populations of Cobia, Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus 1766) in Peninsular Malaysia. Sains Malaysiana, 45 (6). pp. 891-898. ISSN 0026-6039

Abstract

Cobia Rachycentron canadum, is one of the emerging aquaculture species but is usually a non-target resource in fisheries industry and within Malaysia, their landings are among the highest worldwide. Identification of stocks with unique morphological characters is important for effective management and sustainable utilization. Morphometric variations among three different cobia populations from Kedah, Terengganu and Johor were studied. All the morphometric characteristics varied among the three populations as all the elements of the first Eigen vector were positive. Discriminant analysis suggested that head depth (HD) and maximum body depth, (MaxD) were the most varied among the populations. Cobia populations from Kedah and Johor were in a single cluster in the dendrogram with a 63.69% similarity while Terengganu was in another cluster with a similarity of 8.01% from Kedah and Johor. The differences in the observed morphometry may be resulted from different trophic activities and/or habitat productiveness explored by each of the populations.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Keywords: Cobia; Malaysia; Morphometric variation; Population size; Rachycentron canadum
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 16 Oct 2017 10:27
Last Modified: 15 May 2018 06:36
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53342
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