Kinds and Abundance of Fish Larvae in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
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I. Southern part of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden: 75 larvae m -2 (22 samples), II. Cape
Guardafui to Mombasa: 28 larvae m -2 (59 samples), III. Open Ocean between East Africa
and South India: 18 larvae m- 2 (20 samples), IV. West coast of India: 42 larvae m- 2
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(53 samples), V. Gulf of Oman: 695 larvae m- 2 (27 samples), VI. Southern Persian Gulf:
40 larvae m -2 (30 samples),
According to the forms of fish larvae found, subareas II and III were oceanic; these