S. Al-Muhanna, Israa Abdul Ameer Al-Kraety, S. Banoon
{"title":"Molecular detection of spa gene among Staphylococcus aureus isolated from mastitis","authors":"S. Al-Muhanna, Israa Abdul Ameer Al-Kraety, S. Banoon","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V8I0.589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V8I0.589","url":null,"abstract":"From June to September 2020, among thirty gram-positive bacteria grown with mannitol salt agar, seventeen Staphylococcus aureus isolates were described. Staphylococcus aureus isolates were described in the initial identification based on the colonial morphology, microscopic analysis, and biochemical tests. The final identification was performed using an automated VITEK-2 compact system. The spa genes were detected by the genotyping method using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. The results showed that the spa gene comprised 19 isolates (63.3%) of S. aureus .","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"8 1","pages":"16-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46947653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karyology of an endemic Oxynoemacheilus simavicus (Balık & Bănărescu, 1978) (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)","authors":"Muradiye Karasu Ayata, S. Karakuş, M. Gaffaroğlu","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V8I1.541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V8I1.541","url":null,"abstract":"The diploid chromosome number and chromosome morphologies of endemic Oxynoemacheilus simavicus (Balik & Bănărescu, 1978) were revealed out from Gediz River, Turkey. Metaphase chromosomes were obtained from head kidney cells. The diploid chromosome number was found as 50 and karyotype was consisted 13 pairs of biarmed and 12 pairs of uniarmed chromosomes. Fundamental arm number was calculated as 76. The obtained results shall contribute to nemacheilid chromosomal studies.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"8 1","pages":"14-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45787474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphometric characteristic and condition factor of snakeskin Gourami (Trichogaster pectoralis) from Sungai Batang Swamp, Indonesia","authors":"A. Ahmadi","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V8I1.301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V8I1.301","url":null,"abstract":"The Snakeskin gourami ( Trichogaster pectoralis ) from Sungai Batang swamp, Indonesia has high commercial value and high pressure on population due to fishing, while the fish growth condition is poorly studied. A total of 848 fish ranging 75-200mm (119.14±18.43mm) (TL) and 5-132g (29.76±14.76g) were sampled to estimate its length-weight relationship and condition factors. Local fishermen mostly collected them using horizontal gill-net and also electrofishing device. Based on the results, the Snakeskin gourami grow allometrically ( b =2.7748-2.8971), indicating that fish becomes slender as the length increases. Total length and weight of female were significantly higher than those of male ( P 0.05). The mean K values for male and female were 1.64±0.24 and 1.66±0.21, respectively, indicating that fish in the swamp is in good condition.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"8 1","pages":"19-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43224827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehrnaz Ghanbarzadeh, E. Kamrani, M. S. Ranjbar, A. Salarpouri, C. Walters
{"title":"Reproductive biology of Indian halibut, Psettodes erumei from the northern Persian Gulf and Oman Sea (Teleoststei: Psettodidae)","authors":"Mehrnaz Ghanbarzadeh, E. Kamrani, M. S. Ranjbar, A. Salarpouri, C. Walters","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V8I1.434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V8I1.434","url":null,"abstract":"The reproductive biology of Indian halibut, Psettodes erumei , a commercially valuable flatfish species, in the northern Persian Gulf and Oman Sea was studied. A total of 433 specimens were collected monthly from October 2016 to November 2017, and their length, weight, sex, gonad and liver weight, and maturity status were recorded. Monthly variations in Gonado-somatic index showed two obvious peaks in the spawning period in both sexes. Observations from the seasonal maturation curve, the frequency distribution of the female gonadal development stages and the condition factor confirmed recent findings that the spawning periods have two peaks, a higher peak in April-May (spring) and a lower peak in October (autumn). The size at first maturity of females was estimated to be 38.20 cm in total length. The absolute fecundity ranged from 18072 to 332171 eggs while the relative fecundity ranged from 22 to 161 eggs/g. Absolute fecundity was positively correlated with body related parameters (total length/weight) and with gonad weight. Combined, the information provided in this study could be useful for resource managers to set seasonal closure during peak spawning periods and implement minimum size limits above the size at first maturity to let the fish spawn at least once before capture.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46631697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Koochaknejad, A. Ghazilou, M. Sharifinia, H. Ershadifar, K. Kor
{"title":"Short term temporal variation of mangrove fish assemblage in Chabahar Bay (Oman Sea)","authors":"E. Koochaknejad, A. Ghazilou, M. Sharifinia, H. Ershadifar, K. Kor","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V7I4.524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V7I4.524","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to assess the temporal variation in fish assemblage in Chabahar Bay mangrove habitat. Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) sampling method was applied to record the fish presence. Fishes were sampled monthly from June 2017 to April 2018 at daylight time (9:00 to 14:00) during high tide. Water temperature, turbidity, and salinity were recorded at the time of sampling. During the study, a total of 17 species belonging to 12 families were identified. A mbassis gymnocephalus was found as the dominant fish throughout the year except in November and December. The most abundant fish fauna in numbers was characterized by the following five species: Ambassis gymnocephalus (53.38%), Sardinella sp. (17.13%), Terapon jarbua (4.79%), Rhabdosargus sarba (3.25%) and Acanthopagrus berda (2.9%). ANOSIM showed that significant differences in the assemblage structure occurred among months (R=0.613, P < 0.001), and the CLUSTER analysis, together with the SIMPROF test showed that December is significantly different in term of fish assemblage. Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) on species-environment correlations revealed that temperature and turbidity were the main parameters influencing fish occurrence in the mangrove habitat of Chabahar Bay. The overall diversity (Shannon–Wiener, Simpson’s Index of Diversity, and Pielou’s evenness), as well as functional diversity indexes (FRic and FDis), was higher in autumn and spring pointing out that the diversity is higher when the temperature had the closest value to averaged value.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"7 1","pages":"338-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stock structure delineation of an endangered mahseer, Tor putitora (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from two Indian rivers by morphological and meristic attributes","authors":"Y. K. Rawal, Apneet Kaur, P. Rani, I. S. Sidhu","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V7I4.533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V7I4.533","url":null,"abstract":"An understanding of the stock is a basic requirement for the management of the fishery resources. The endangered mahseer, Tor putitora (Hamilton, 1822) is a commercially important fish distributed extensively in the foothills of Himalayas. Box plots and multivariate statistical tools like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) were used to delineate the stocks of T. putitora from two Indian rivers, Yamuna and Satluj using 6 meristic and 24 morphometric characteristics. A comparison of the morphometric and meristic characters using box plots revealed variations in eye diameter (ED), length of rostral barbel (LRB), standard length (SL), pre-anal distance (PAD), distance between pectoral and pelvic fin (DPP), distance between pelvic and anal fin (DPA), length of dorsal fin (LDF), length of pectoral fin (LpecF), length of pelvic fin (LpecF) and length of caudal fin (LCF) for distinguishing populations from these two rivers. Upon PCA, the first three principal components accounted for 69.66% of total variance in head parameters whereas for total length, the first 5 principal components accounted for 73.23% of total variance. For meristic characters, the first two PCs explained 75.65% of the total variance. The step-wise DFA retained only one function for morphometric as well as meristic characters explaining 100% of the variance. The Wilks’ lambda tests for morphometric and meristic data indicated differences between the populations of T. putitora from both the rivers.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"7 1","pages":"323-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45300136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microscopic structure of the olfactory mucosa of onespot barb, Puntius terio (Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae)","authors":"S. K. Ghosh","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V7I4.514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V7I4.514","url":null,"abstract":"Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy were used to portray the cellular constituents lining the olfactory epithelium of teri barb, Puntius terio (Hamilton, 1822) (Cyprinidae: Smiliogastrinae). The olfactory organ holded 16 pairs of lamellae emitted from central raphe, consummate an oviform rosette. The multilamellar olfactory rosette was distinctively placed on the ground of nasal cavity and differentiated by specialized sensory and non-sensory territory. Sensory epithelium covered apical part and linguiform process of lamella while rest part is disguised by non-sensory epithelium. The sensory epithelium had two specific forms: ciliated receptor cells and microvillous receptor cells categorized by staining magnitude, texture and surface morphology. In divergence, the nonsensory epithelium was made up of stratified epithelial cells with microridges, cluster of ciliated non-sensory cells and secretory mucous cells. Basal cells were buried in the mucosa, presumed to be the progenitor of sensory or other supporting cells. Functional implication of cellular components on the olfactory lining was argued with feeding habits and behaviour of fish interested.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"7 1","pages":"306-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47130097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mojgan Zare‐Shahraki, Y. Keivany, E. Ebrahimi, A. Bruder, J. Flotemersch, K. Blocksom
{"title":"Length-weight relationships of seven fish species from the Karun River system, southwestern Iran","authors":"Mojgan Zare‐Shahraki, Y. Keivany, E. Ebrahimi, A. Bruder, J. Flotemersch, K. Blocksom","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V7I4.522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V7I4.522","url":null,"abstract":"Length‐weight relationships (LWR) for seven species from the Karun River system in Iran were provided. These species include Alburnus doriae , Alburnus sellal , Barbus karunensis , Capoeta coadi , Squalius berak , Turcinoemacheilus saadii and Rhinogobius lindberg . Fishes were collected in November and December 2018 and LWR is based on total length and weight of 2867 specimens calculated by equation W= aL b . The b value ranged from 2.92 to 3.25 and r 2 from 0.94 to 0.99. The length and weight range is presented for each species collected in the Karun River Basin.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"7 1","pages":"352-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42761564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Ali, Motae Sheikh Aideed, Mohammed Awadh Algurabi
{"title":"New records of Syngnathiform fishes (Teleostei: Syngnathiformes) from the Hadhramout coast, Gulf of Aden, Yemen","authors":"A. Ali, Motae Sheikh Aideed, Mohammed Awadh Algurabi","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V7I4.526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V7I4.526","url":null,"abstract":"Since the taxonomic work of A. Druzhinin in 1973, the number of valid fish species in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden remained almost unchanged, mainly due to lack of firmness and consistency in the conduct of scientific research. In order to confirm the scientific nomenclature of local fish, we conducted field follow-ups at landing and marketing sites throughout the Hadhramout coast, the Gulf of Aden. A review of all the previous studies and publications shows that some fish species have not been reported from the Gulf of Aden Gulf. Among these species, we collected three syngnathiform fishes including Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus (Bleeker, 1857) and Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, 1901 from the family Syngnathidae, and Aeoliscus punctulatus (Bianconi, 1854) from the family Centriscidae. Here, we describe the detailed characteristics of these fishes, which are new records for the coast of Hadhramout, Gulf of Aden.","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"7 1","pages":"314-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41334238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Silambarasan, P. Senthilkumaar, A. Sundaramanickam
{"title":"First record of Seamoths Eurypegasus draconis (Teleostei: Pegasidae) in the Tamil Nadu coast, India","authors":"K. Silambarasan, P. Senthilkumaar, A. Sundaramanickam","doi":"10.22034/IJI.V7I4.396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22034/IJI.V7I4.396","url":null,"abstract":"In the present study a single individual (64 mm SL) of Seamoths Eurypegasus draconis Linnaeus, 1766 was recorded from the Kasimedu fisheries harbour, Chennai coast. This is the first record of the species from mainland of India Chennai, Tamil Nadu coast and third record from Indian waters. After three decades the species were documented in the Indian coast. A systematic account of the species and distributions are provided. The species has been compared with earlier studies and similar species of E. papilio .","PeriodicalId":14599,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Ichthyology","volume":"7 1","pages":"356-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44317455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}