Morphometric Characteristics of Silver Pomfret, Pampus argenteus of Family Stromateidae Collected from Fish Market of Quetta City of Pakistan

摘要

The current study was conducted to analyze some useful morphometric parameters of differentspecimen of Pampus argenteus of family Stromateidae in order to analyze their significance in systematics.A total of 160 samples of this species were collected from the fish market of Quetta city during the period fromAugust 2014 to March 2015. This species is very important from consumption and commercial point of viewas it is greatly being famous as food. About 14 morphometric characters were analyzed during this study. Asmorphometric characters have key consequence in systematic classification of fishes as well as helpful in sexualdifferentiation, hence, our present work would be valuable in observing the phenotypic variation betweenPampus argenteus.