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8 A. B. M. MOORE ET AL.<br />
Table I. Continued<br />
Number <strong>of</strong> individuals<br />
(% total <strong>of</strong> all species combined)<br />
Taxon<br />
Kuwait<br />
2008<br />
Kuwait<br />
2011 Qatar<br />
Abu<br />
Dhabi<br />
Total all<br />
sites<br />
Rhinobatos cf. punctifer — 1<br />
(0·14)<br />
3<br />
(0·15)<br />
Rays<br />
Dasyatidae<br />
Himantura fai — — — 1<br />
(0·24)<br />
Himantura imbricata 3<br />
(0·20)<br />
Himantura sp. B 17<br />
(1·12)<br />
Himantura uarnak species complex 14<br />
(0·92)<br />
Pastinachus sephen 72<br />
(4·75)<br />
Gymnuridae<br />
Gymnura cf. poecilura 9<br />
(0·59)<br />
Myliobatidae<br />
Aetobatus flagellum 13<br />
(0·86)<br />
Aetobatus cf. ocellatus 7<br />
(0·46)<br />
11<br />
(1·57)<br />
42<br />
(6·01)<br />
9<br />
(1·29)<br />
26<br />
(3·72)<br />
15<br />
(2·15)<br />
23<br />
(3·29)<br />
2<br />
(0·10)<br />
118<br />
(5·84)<br />
1<br />
(0·05)<br />
4<br />
(0·20)<br />
6<br />
(0·30)<br />
— 3<br />
(0·15)<br />
— 4<br />
(0·09)<br />
1<br />
(0·02)<br />
— 16<br />
(0·34)<br />
— 177<br />
(3·81)<br />
1<br />
(0·24)<br />
25<br />
(0·54)<br />
— 102<br />
(2·19)<br />
— 30<br />
(0·65)<br />
— — 36<br />
(0·77)<br />
— 10<br />
(0·22)<br />
Male(♂) <strong>and</strong> fe<strong>male</strong> (♀) <strong>size</strong> range<br />
(cm) (mean ± s.d. cm)<br />
♂ NA<br />
♀ 77–87 (82·0 ± 4·0)<br />
♂ NA<br />
♀ 124<br />
♂ 15–23 (19·3 ± 2·8)<br />
♀ 14–26 (19·9 ± 4·0)<br />
♂ 24–54 (41·9 ± 7·9)<br />
♀ 25–62 (40·6 ± 10·9)<br />
♂ 45–106 (87·8 ± 13·0)<br />
♀ 40–121(88·4 ± 20·1)<br />
♂ 35–96 (50·2 ± 11·0)<br />
♀ 32–89 (56·3 ± 11·2)<br />
♂ 33–69 (54·7 ± 7·9)<br />
♀ 37–94 (61·3 ± 19·2)<br />
♂ 27–58 (42·1 ± 9·7)<br />
♀ 33–74 (54·3 ± 14·5)<br />
♂ 105–155 (124·0 ± 15·5)<br />
♀ 61–125 (90·7 ± 32·3)<br />
Male<br />
<strong>maturity</strong><br />
(cm)<br />
NA<br />
NA<br />
18<br />
43<br />
84<br />
54<br />
48<br />
53<br />
119<br />
© 2012 The Authors<br />
Journal <strong>of</strong> Fish Biology © 2012 The Fisheries Society <strong>of</strong> the British Isles, Journal <strong>of</strong> Fish Biology 2012, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03210.x
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