Impact of microplastic pollution on the marine environment and its biota is a major concern globally. Gulf Mannar (GoM) Palk Bay (PB) are two important biodiversity hotspots along south-east coast India. However, in recent years intense tourism fishery activities have made ecosystem these ecologically significant coastal zones vulnerable to contamination. Hence, comparative study seasonal distr...

Abstract Reverse phase dispersive liquid- liquid microextraction (RP- DLLME) coupled with spectrophotometry is introduced for the detection of total phenol in the muscle tissue of fishes, such as Sphyraena genie, Otolithes ruber, Rastrelliger kangurta, Lutjanus johnii and Barbus Subquin Cunciatus. Phenols in fish tissues were extracted by ultrasonic bath and derivatization with 4- aminoant...

Few studies have examined seasonal diet variation and trophic relationships among fishes in shallow subtropical waters. We sampled consecutive wet and dry seasons within Biscayne Bay, Florida, USA, to examine seasonal diet and feeding habit variation in juvenile gray snapper Lutjanus griseus (GS), bluestriped grunt Haemulon sciurus (BSG), seabream Archosargus rhomboidalis (SB) and great barracu...

THE FISH FAMILIES Sphyraenidae, Mugilidae, and Atherinidae have been assigned to the percesocine fishes by all authors, and many would include only these (e.g., Berg, 1940: 368). Others have expanded the group in various ways (e.g., Boulenger, 1904: 636). Most commonly, however, such expansion has extended only to the family Polynemidae (e.g., Regan, 1912: 846) or, in recent years, to the polyn...