All Entries in the "Aquatic Animals" Category
Cultivable Species of Back Water Fishes and Molluscs
Sl.No. Group Name of Species 1. Milk fish (Poomeen) Chanos Chanos 2. Mullets (Kanambu) Mugil cephalusMugil dussumieriLiza tade L. macrolepis Lparsia Mugil cunnesius 3. Pearl spot (Kari meen) Etroplus suratensis 4. Sea bass Lates calcarifer 5. Crabs (Njandu) Scylla serrata, S. tranquebarica 6. Mussels Perna virids (Green mussel)Perna indica (Brown mussel) 7. Oyster Crassostrea madrasensis [...]
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Commercially Important Species of Shrimps in Kerala
Scientific Name English Name Malayalam Name Fenneropenaeus indicus Indian white shrimp Naran Penaeus monodon Tiger shrimp Kara Penaeus semisulcatus Green tiger shrimp Kuzhikara Fenneropenaeus merguiensis Banana prawn (brown shrimp) – Metapenaeus dobsoni Flower tail prawn (brown shrimp) Poovalan or Thelly Metapenaeus monoceros Indian prawn Choodan Metapenaeus affini Indian prawn (King shrimp) Kazhanthan Metapenaeus brevicornis Yellow shrimp [...]
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Cultivable Species of Brackish Water Fishes and Molluscs
Scientific Name English Name Malayalam Name Fenneropenaeus indicus Indian white shrimp [...]
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Scientific Names Of Fishes
No Malayalam name Species 1. അംജുപുല്ലി Trachinotus baillonii 2. അംബട്ടന് വാള Notopterus notopterus 3. അകൊലി Monodactylus argenteus 4. അകൊലി Platax orbicularis 5. അഗൊരി Alectis ciliaris 6. അഗോരി Alectis ciliaris 7. അഞ്ചുപുള്ളി Trachinotus baillonii 8. അടവ് Lactarius lactarius 9. അടവ് Lactarius lactarius 10. അണു Horaichthys setnai 11. അതുതിരുക്കൈ Pastinachus sephen 12. അന്പട്ട Opisthopterus tardoore 13. അന്പട്ട [...]
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Penguin
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Infraclass: Neognathae Order: Sphenisciformes Sharpe, 1891 Family: Spheniscidae Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white [...]
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Whales
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Eutheria Order: Cetacea Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea.The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises,which belong to suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales). This suborder also includes the sperm [...]
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Shark
Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago. Since that time, sharks have diversified into 440 species, ranging in size from the small dwarf lanternshark, Etmopterus perryi, a deep sea species of only 17 centimetres (6.7 [...]
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