A Preliminary Estimate of Age and Growth of Two Populations of Dasyatid Stingray Urogymnus polylepis in Thailand
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Ageing Growth parameter Urogymnus polylepis Vertebra Von Bertalanffy
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Age and growth of the stingray Urogymnus polylepis were determined, for the first time, from bands in the vertebrae. Samples were obtained from naturally dying specimens in the two major rivers in central Thailand. Eighteen stingrays with disc length (DL) ranging between 30 and 187 cm were collected from the Chao Phraya River, while 53 fish ranging between 30 and 250 cm were collected from the Mae Klong River. The von Bertalanffy parameters were calculated for the Chao Phraya and the Mae Klong rivers as DL¥ = 195.6 and 301.3 cm, K = 0.26 and 0.11 ·year-1 and DL0 = 28.1 and 27.2 cm, respectively. The likelihood ratio test showed significant difference in growth between the two populations.
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Phomikong, P., Seehirunwong, S., & Jutagate, T. (2019). A Preliminary Estimate of Age and Growth of Two Populations of Dasyatid Stingray Urogymnus polylepis in Thailand. Journal of Fisheries and Environment, 43(3), 43–54. Retrieved from https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JFE/article/view/192537
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2. Beverton, R.J.H. and S.J. Holt. 1957. On the dynamics of exploited fish populations. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. London. 533 pp.
3. Cailliet, G.M. 2015. Perspectives on elasmobranch life-history studies: a focus on age validation and relevance to fishery management. Journal of Fish Biology 87: 1271-1292.
4. Cailliet, G.M. and J.K. Goldman. 2004. Age determination and validation in Chondrichthyan fishes. In: Biology of sharks and their relatives (eds. J.C. Carrier, J.A. Musick and M.R. Heithaus), pp. 399-447. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
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7. Dale, J. and K. Holland. 2012. Age, growth and maturity of the brown stingray (Dasyatis lata) around Oahu, Hawai’i. Marine and Freshwater Research 63: 475-484.
8. Fabens, A.J. 1965. Properties and fitting of von Bertalanffy growth curve. Growth 29: 265-289.
9. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. 2019. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. https://www.fishbase.org, version. Cited 2 Feb 2019.
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11. Harry, A.V. 2018. Evidence of systematic age underestimation in shark and ray ageing studies. Fish and Fisheries 19(2): 185-200.
13. Igbal, M. and I. Yustian. 2016. Occurrence of the giant freshwater stingray Urogymnus polylepis in Sumatra, Indonesia (Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 27(4): 333-336.
14. Ismen, A. 2003. Age, growth, reproduction and food of common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca L., 1758) in Iskenderun Bay, the Eastern Mediterranean. Fisheries Research 60(1): 169-176
15. Jacobsen, I.P. and M.B. Bennett. 2011. Life history of the black-spotted whipray Himantura astra. Journal of Fish Biology 78: 1249-1268.
16. Jutagate, T., C. Grudpan and A. Suvarnanraksha. 2016. Freshwater fish diversity in Thailand and the challenges on its prosperity due to river damming. In: Aquatic biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services, ecological research monographs (ed. S. Nakano), pp. 31-39. Springer, Berlin, Germany.
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20. Kwangkhang, W. 2016. Estimating age and growth of the Mekong tiger perch, Datnioides undecimradiatus (Roberts and Kottelat, 1994) by using hard structures. Kasetsart University Fisheries Research Bulletin 40(2): 29-38.
21. Last, P.R. and J.D. Stevens. 1994. Sharks and rays of Australia. CSIRO, Australia. 513 pp.
22. Martin, R.A. 2005. Conservation of freshwater and euryhaline elasmobranchs: a review. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85(5): 1049-1073.
23. Morioka, S., B. Vongvichith, J. Marui, T. Okutsu, P. Phomikong, P. Avakul and T. Jutagate. 2019. Characteristics of two populations of Thai river sprat Clupeichthys aesarnensis (Teleostei: Clupeidae), from Laos and Thailand, with information on gonad development. Fisheries Science 85(4): 667-675.
24. Natanson, L.J. and N.E. Kohler. 1996. A preliminary estimate of age and growth of the dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus from the South-West Indian Ocean, with comparisons to the western North Atlantic population. South African Journal of Marine Science 17(1): 217-224.
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27. Otake, T., I. Toshiaki and T. Sho. 2005. Otolith strontium: calcium ratios in a freshwater stingray, Himantura signifier Compagno and Roberts, 1982, from the Chao Phraya River, Thailand. Coastal Marine Science 29(2): 147-153.
28. Pauly, D. and J.L. Munro. 1984. Once more on the comparison of growth in fish and invertebrates. Fishbyte 2(1). 1-21.
29. R Development Core Team. 2016. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project.org/. Cited 5 Jan 2019.
30. SEAFDEC. 2017. Standard operating procedures (SOP) sharks, rays and skates data collection in the Southeast Asian Waters. Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Bangkok, Thailand. 41 pp.
31. Smirnov, N.V. 1939. Estimate of deviation between empirical distribution functions in two independent samples. Bulletin of Moscow University 2: 3-16.
32. Smith, W.D., G.M. Cailliet and E.M. Melendez. 2007. Maturity and growth characteristics of a commercially exploited stingray, Dasyatis dipterura. Marine and Freshwater Research 58: 54-66.
33. Tongnunui, S., F.W.H. Beamish and C. Kongchaiya. 2016. Fish species, relative abundances and environmental associations in small rivers of the Mae Klong River basin in Thailand. Agriculture and Natural Resources 50: 408-415.
34. Vidthayanon, C., I. Baird and Z. Hogan. 2013. Himantura polylepis. The IUCN red list of threatened species 2013: e.T195320A8956611. https://www.iucnredlist.org/. Cited 10 Jan 2019.
35. Walford, L.A. 1946. A new graphic method for describing the growth of animals. Biological Bulletin 90: 141-147.
36. Yeldan, H. and S. Gundogdu. 2018. Morphometric relationships and growth of common stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758) and marbled stingray, Dasyatis marmorata (Steindachner, 1892) in the northeastern Levantine Basin. Journal of the Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment 24(1): 10-27.
37. Yigin, C.C. and A. Ismen. 2012. Age, growth and reproduction of the common stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca from the North Aegean Sea. Marine Biology Research 8: 644-653.