Two specimens of Argyropelecus gigas and Conocara fiolenti were collected from off the city Salalah on Arabian Sea coasts Oman. The represent first confirmed record species northwestern quadrat Indian Ocean. Meristic morphometric characters match those described for these species.

30 An Evidence-Based Approach to the Use of Social Media to Promote Political Literacy among Youth in the Sultanate of Oman; Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Salim Said AlKindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Al-Khoud, Oman Abdullah Khamis Al-Kindi, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, College of Arts an...

In December 2002, large numbers of dead jellyfish, Crambionella orsini, were observed on the seabed over a wide area of the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman at depths between 300 m and 3,300 m. Moribund jellyfish were seen tumbling down the continental slope. Large aggregations of dead jellyfish were evident within canyons and on the continental rise. At the deepest stations, patches of rottin...

Sea water samples were collected from 32 stations in the southern part of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman during winter of 1987. Surface water of the Persian Gulf exhibited wide range and higher values of salinity (37.15-43.95, mean 40.02%) compared with lower values and narrow range (36.58-36.95, mean 36.74%) in the Gulf of Oman. Surface salinity did not reflect any significant relations...

The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) has been a species of global concern for decades. As an attempt to study health status of nesting green turtles, Blood biochemistry and hematological values were obtained from 18 clinically normal, nesting female green sea turtles on the northern coast of the sea of Oman. Mean curved carapace length (CCL) was 111±4 cm with a range of 103—122 cm. Barnacles were ...

Sea surface temperature (SST) and isothermal layer depth (ILD) are important oceanic parameters could play a significant role in understanding the upper thermal structure as well improve predictive capability of monsoons tropical oceans. In disparate departure from past research, present study investigates seasonal variability SST ILD association with monsoon cycle Arabian Oman regions by exami...

Sea turtles are widely distributed in temperate and tropical seas, and their carapace is often colonized by species of macroalgae. There have been several studies on the epibionts of loggerhead turtles, Caretta caretta Linnaeus, from different parts of the world (KITSOS, et al., 2005; PFALLER et al., 2006, 2008). The carapaces of loggerhead turtles represent an important substratum for a variet...

Cancer is a major health problem in Oman. It is reported that cancer incidence in Oman is the second highest after Saudi Arabia among Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Based on GLOBOCAN estimates, Oman is predicted to face an almost two-fold increase in cancer incidence in the period 2008-2020. However, cancer research in Oman is still in its infancy. This is due to the fact that medical inst...