Jia-Guang Xiao, Na Song, Zhi-Qiang Han, and Tian-Xiang Gao (2016) Reliance only on morphology to identify fishes to the species level is challenging when the diagnostic characters are similar among related taxa. Within the genus Sillago, differences among some nominal species are generally small and restricted to a few characters. In this study, a new species of Sillago (Sillago shaoi sp. nov.)...

Diverse anthropogenic activities including alteration of hydrological regime and agricultural development in the upstream river catchments modify structural components ecological roles species estuarine ecosystems. The present study compared diet, carbon (?13C) nitrogen (?15N) isotopic signals, trophic niches metrics redundancy predatory fish their potential phytodetritivore prey-fish between t...

To understand the community structure dynamics of fish eggs and larvae in Yellow River estuary, four trawl surveys were annually conducted between 2011 2014, including at 13 stations 18 2012 2014. A total 2540 143 collected during surveys, comprising 25 species, 8 orders, 16 families, 20 genera. During survey period, species numbers first decreased then increased, while abundances increased dec...

Monthly fish samples were collected from one location at Shatt Al- Basrah Canal July 2008 to June 2009, using coastal seine net of dimensions 80 m length and 8 height with a mesh size 10×10 mm. Water temperature, salinity water transparency measured. Fishes identified in the laboratory total lengths weights Catch per unit effort was estimated for 22 species during sampling period. The biotic fa...