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12 A. B. M. MOORE ET AL.<br />
(a)<br />
100<br />
Small<br />
non-carcharhinids<br />
75<br />
50<br />
Larger sharks<br />
Common small<br />
100 cm max L T<br />
Mature <strong>male</strong>s (%)<br />
(b)<br />
25<br />
0<br />
C. arabicum (64)<br />
M. mosis (19)<br />
C. macrostoma (36)<br />
P. r<strong>and</strong>alli (39)<br />
100<br />
Benthic<br />
R. acutus (901)<br />
R. oligolinx (92)<br />
L. macrorhinus (151)<br />
C. dussumieri (732)<br />
C. macloti (15)<br />
C. amblyrhynchoides (3)<br />
C. brevipinna (14)<br />
C. leucas (20)<br />
C. amboinensis (26)<br />
C. leiodon (14)<br />
C. limbatus (52)<br />
C. sorrah (150)<br />
Carcharhinus spp. (36)<br />
S. mokarran (6)<br />
Bentho-pelagic<br />
75<br />
50<br />
25<br />
0<br />
H. sp. B (110)<br />
P. sephen (36)<br />
H. uarnak complex (21)<br />
G. cf. poecilura (19)<br />
A. flagellum (22)<br />
A. cf. ocellatus (7)<br />
A. nich<strong>of</strong>ii (47)<br />
A. cf. milvus (15)<br />
Rhinoptera spp. (83)<br />
Fig. 3. Percentage <strong>of</strong> <strong>male</strong> (a) sharks <strong>and</strong> (b) rays (see Table I) that were assessed as mature ( )orimmature<br />
( ). The number <strong>of</strong> <strong>male</strong>s assessed for each species are presented in parentheses. L T , total length.<br />
brevipinna (Müller & Henle 1839), blacktip shark Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller<br />
& Henle 1839) <strong>and</strong> great hammerhead Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell 1837)] were relatively<br />
unimportant in terms <strong>of</strong> overall abundance (
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