The Family Dactylopteridae consists of beautifully colored flying and helmet gurnards. Their enlarged pectoral fins are week and used as a defense display or as a warning behavior (Breder, 1963). The anterior part of the large pectoral fin is used to pursuit food (Poss and Eschmeyer, 1999). The Dactylopterids are distributed widely on sandy bottoms in tropical, sub-tropical, and warm-temperate waters (Hubbs, 1933; Eschmeyer, 1986; 1990; Nelson, 1994; Owfi, 2021). These are non-commercial fishes, which mostly caught as by-catch during commercial trawling operations.
Farooq, S., & Muhammad, A. (2022). The first report on the occurrence of Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström, 1887) (Dactylopteriformes; Dactylopteridae) in the northern Arabian Sea. Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 21(2), 634-639. doi: 10.22092/ijfs.2022.126709
MLA
S. Farooq; A.A. Muhammad. "The first report on the occurrence of Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström, 1887) (Dactylopteriformes; Dactylopteridae) in the northern Arabian Sea". Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 21, 2, 2022, 634-639. doi: 10.22092/ijfs.2022.126709
HARVARD
Farooq, S., Muhammad, A. (2022). 'The first report on the occurrence of Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström, 1887) (Dactylopteriformes; Dactylopteridae) in the northern Arabian Sea', Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 21(2), pp. 634-639. doi: 10.22092/ijfs.2022.126709
VANCOUVER
Farooq, S., Muhammad, A. The first report on the occurrence of Dactyloptena peterseni (Nyström, 1887) (Dactylopteriformes; Dactylopteridae) in the northern Arabian Sea. Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 2022; 21(2): 634-639. doi: 10.22092/ijfs.2022.126709
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