Histological analysis was carried out on ovarian development in the picnic seabream, Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskål 1775) caught estuarine waters of Calicut, Kerala, India from January to December 2016. Four developmental phases oocyte were identified viz., oogonia proliferation and transformation into primary oocyte, growth phase, secondary phase maturation these are similar those described for...

An ovigerous female of Argulus matuii Sikama, 1938 was collected from the body surface a yellowfin seabream Acanthopagrus latus (Houttuyn, 1782) in cove facing Bungo Channel off Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. This represents new host record for A. matuii, and is herein described. female, which fixed preserved 70% ethanol, showed prominent coloration, i.e., six streaks yellow fringed with dark...