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b) Larval Abundance of the More Common Groups
Myctophids were the most abundant (Table 2). Without doubt, this family includes
also the greatest variation in species. At least 45 different species are represented in the
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material, but in those areas where the concentration of myctophid larvae was most
striking, i.e. in the Gulf of Oman and some stations between Bombay and Karachi, only a
single species, Benthosema pterota, made up the bulk of the samples. No other fish