Length-weight relationship (LWR), condition factor (K) and feeding habits of Coilia dussumieri, Nemapteryx nenga Nibea soldado from Santubong Estuary, Sarawak, Malaysia were reported in the present study. The sampling was conducted during non-monsoon season monsoon April to November 2017 at Buntal, Penambir Demak rivers using three-layered gillnets. A total 182 fish samples caught measured for ...

This shark has been listed among Chilean species based on Randall and Cea-Egaña (1984), who gave a listing of vernacular names for the fishes of Easter Island (Pequeño 1989). Grove and Lavenberg (1997) record having photographed Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller 1905) at Salas y Gomez Is. There are no data to our knowledge of anyone examining specimens captured at either Easter Is...

White sharks are highly migratory apex predators, globally distributed in temperate, sub-tropical, and tropical waters. Knowledge of white shark biology and ecology has increased recently based on research at known aggregation sites in the Indian, Atlantic, and Northeast Pacific Oceans; however, few data are available for the Northwest Pacific Ocean. This study provides a meta-analysis of 240 o...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the chemical composition of different extracts of Merremia borneensis (M. borneensis) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). METHODS The dried leaves powder was extracted with methanol at room temperature by using Soxhlet extractor. Methanol crude extracts of M. borneensis were extrastel with hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and butanol. RESULTS Qualitative a...

In April 2009, a wild maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus, was captured in an area of cerrado in Brasília, DF, Brazil, with screw worm maggots in external wounds. Fifty larvae were bred in the laboratory and eight adults of Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) emerged 10 days after pupation. This is the first report of a myiasis by C. hominivorax in a free-living maned wolf in Brazil.