Length-Weight Relationship of Two Goat Fish Species Parupeneus Heptacanthus (Lacepède, 1802) and Upeneus Moluccensis (Bleeker, 1855), (Family Mullidae) From Tuticorin Coast of Tamil Nadu, India

Length-weight relation of three species of goatfish from the south-east Arabian Sea

“…from New Caledonia andMatthews et al (2019) from American Samoa with b= 3.07, whileKaruppasamy et al (2019) observed allometric growth pattern from Chendering, Terengganu, Malaysia, while from New CaledonianKulbicki et al (2005) got a negative allometric growth pattern of b value 2.883 which may be attributed to the ecological factors such as variation in temperature, spawning conditions, food supply and habitat preferences. The other mullid species reportedly shows a positive allometric growth pattern.…”

“…The length-weight relationships of U. sulphureus have been studied from different regions of India (Ali, 1978;Reuben et al, 1994;Adarsh and James, 2016) and the World (Prayitno et al, 2020;Vahabnezhad et al, 2020;Clarito and Suerte, 2021). The length-weight relationships of P. heptacanthus have been studied from Tuticorin by Karuppasamy et al (2019). Such information on these species is lacking from the southeast Arabian Sea and this study aims to provide information on the lengthweight relationship (LWR) of U. guttatus, U. sulphureus and P. heptacanthus from these waters.…”