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POPULATION STRUCTURE, LENGTH WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATIVE GROWTH OF THE CALTROP SNAIL MUREX TRIBULUS IN BARDAWIL LAGOON, NORTH SINAI, EGYPT

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Fisheries and Aquaculture

Abstract

Population structure of the caltrop snail Murex tribulus at Bardawil lagoon, North Sinai, Egypt had been studied to evaluate their community structure in their habita. A total of 2400 individuals of Murex tribulus were randomly collected from landing site during the fishing season in Bardawil lagoon from June 2019 to February 2020 and from June 2020 to February 2021. The relationships between total length (TL) and total width (TW) of males (with total width range from 15 to 29.6 mm) and females (with total width range from 15.8 to 35.6 mm( and combined sexes (with total width range from 15 to 35.6mm) were determined to quantify shell size. Relative growth showed negative allometric growth (where b>1) was observed in males and females of M. tribulus in terms of the following body parts: top length (PL), bottom length (BL), aperture length (AL) and aperture width (AP) for males, females and combined sexes. The relationships between total length (TL) and (total weight TWt and flesh weight FWt) of M. tribulus illustrated a positive growth where b>1 for both sexes and combined sexes. However, the sex ratio was more or less constant throughout the season, except in August, January and February where females exceeds males. Generally, the total ratio for males and females was 1: 0.8.

DOI

10.21608/sinjas.2022.119197.1091

Keywords

population structure, relative growth, Length weight relationship, Murex tribulus, Bardawil Lagoon

Authors

First Name

Aya

Last Name

ElEssawy

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Dept. Fish Res., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

yoka.hassan442@gmail.com

City

North Sinai

Orcid

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First Name

Gaber

Last Name

Hassanen

MiddleName

D.I.

Affiliation

Dept. Fish Res., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

northsinai14@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0003-0199-6711

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Fac. Aquacul. and Marine Fisheries, Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

moh_sale@gmail.com

City

North Sinai

Orcid

-

First Name

Reyad

Last Name

Radwan

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Dept. Econ. And Rural Develop., Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

Email

adyismail@gmail.com

City

North Sinai

Orcid

-

First Name

Nesreen

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Dept. Marine Sci., Fac. Sci., Suez Canal Univ., Egypt.

Email

kadry1339@yahoo.com

City

Ismailia

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-

Volume

11

Article Issue

2

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33852

Issue Date

2022-04-01

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2022-01-30

Publish Date

2022-04-01

Page Start

293

Page End

310

Print ISSN

2314-6079

Online ISSN

2682-3527

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Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences

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POPULATION STRUCTURE, LENGTH WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATIVE GROWTH OF THE CALTROP SNAIL MUREX TRIBULUS IN BARDAWIL LAGOON, NORTH SINAI, EGYPT

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22 Jan 2023