Fao Species Identification Sheets For Fishery Purposes - Eastern Indian Ocean And Western Central Pacific. Bony Fishes

FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes

Eastern Indian Ocean - Fishing Area 57
and Western Central Pacific - Fishing Area 71

Bony Fishes: Families


edited by
W. Fischer
Fishery Resources Survey and Evaluation Service
Fishery Resources and Environment Division
FAO Department of Fisheries
Rome, Italy
and
P.J.P. Whitehead
British Museum (Natural History)
London, U.K.


FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Rome, 1974


Volume 1: Bony Fishes Technical Terms - Species Identification Sheets A to Cl




Vol. 1
Volume 2: Bony Fishes Species Identification Sheets Co to L




Vol. 2
Volume 3: Bony Fishes Species Identification Sheets M to Sci




Vol. 3
Volume 4: Bony Fishes Species Identification Sheets Sco to T - Index to Scientific and FAO English Names




Vol. 4

Table of Contents


The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

© FAO 1974

FOREWORD

The first set of FAO Species Identification Sheets for Fishery Purposes (2 volumes) covered the bony fishes, sharks and rays, crustaceans and molluscs of the relatively well-known Mediterranean basin (FAO Fishing Area 37). The present series (4 volumes, bony fishes only), covers the immensely larger and faunistically richer Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Central Pacific, reaching southward to southern Australia (Fishing Areas 57 and 71). Included is the Indo-Australian archipelago, a region with the richest marine fauna of any part of the world. For those who have worked there, the need for some guide to commercial species is obvious.

It might be claimed that the issuing of Identification Sheets for such a region is premature since it will be many years before the taxonomy of certain groups of fishes is properly understood. Hitherto it has been virtually impossible to correlate unequivocally the very considerable amount of fishery data collected in this region with particular species, genera or even in some cases families. The Species Identification Sheets should thus play a significant role in increasing the accuracy of the basic data obtained from resources surveys, or used in the compilation of fishery statistics, and in the planning of rational exploitation of fish stocks. They also provide a common framework of names and identifications for the exchange of information between fishery biologists, statisticians and economists.

This publication is the result of a fruitful cooperation between individual scientists, scientific institutions, projects operating in the area, regional fishery bodies, DANIDA and the Government of Thailand. Such collaboration is essential to the continued usefulness of the Sheets, their testing in the field and their subsequent revision.

However, the Sheets are in no respect final products. They constitute a working tool which, by the nature of the system adopted, can be continuously updated and augmented. Certainly, fishery projects in these two areas deserve what taxonomic help is available and, in particular, the benefit of recent work that has either not yet been published or is still buried in the specialist literature.

Hiroshi Kasahara
Director
Fishery Resources and Environment Division
Department of Fisheries


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


Fao Species Identification Sheets For Fishery Purposes - Eastern Indian Ocean And Western Central Pacific: Bony Fishespdf

Volume 1: Bony Fishes Technical Terms and Species Identification Sheets A to Clpdf

Introduction to this Editionpdf
User's guide
Bony Fishespdf
Technical Terms
List of Families which include Fishes of Economic Interestpdf
Aid to Identification of Families of Economic Interestpdf
A. Conspicuous Characters
B. Picture Guide to Families
Family Sheets (in alphabetical order)
Ariidae
Ariommidae

Balistidae
Bothidae
Carangidae
Centropomidae
Chanidae
Chirocentridae

Clupeidae

Volume 2: Bony Fishes Species Identification Sheets Co to Lpdf

Bony Fishes
Family Sheets (in alphabetical order)
Coryphaenidae
Cynoglossidae

Drepanidae
Elopidae

Engraulidae
Ephippidae
Formionidae
Gerreidae
Glaucosomidae

Harpadontidae
Lactariidae
Leiognathidae
Plate I
Plate II
Lethrinidae
Lutjanidae
Plate I
Plate II
Plate III

Volume 3: Bony Fishes Species Identification Sheets M to Scipdf

Bony Fishes
Family Sheets (in alphabetical order)
Megalopidae
Mugilidae

Mullidae
Muraenesocidae
Nemipteridae
Plate I
Plate II
Plate III
Pentapodidae
Polynemidae
Pomadasyidae

Pomatomidae
Priacanthidae
Psettodidae
Rachycentridae

Sciaenidae

Volume 4: Bony Fishes Species Identification Sheets Sco to T - Index to Scientific and FAO English Namespdf

Bony fishes
Family Sheets (in alphabetical order)
Scombridae
Serranidae
Siganidae
Sillaginidae
Soleidae

Sparidae
Sphyraenidae
Stromateidae

Synodontidae
Theraponidae
Trichiuridae
Index of Names