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During cruise I of the RV “Meteor” to the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, fish larvae were caught routinely from December 1964 to April 1965 (Fig. 1 in Babenerd et al., 1973 this volume). Following the ichthyogeographical classification of Lagler, Bardach and Miller (1967), the zones fished for larvae were: the neritic zone (water mass over the shelf), the epipelagic zone (oceanic surface water down to 200 m), and the mesopelagic zone (water between 200 and 1 000 m). The larval stages of mesopelagic fish species are found mainly in the epipelagic zone, therefore faunistic elements of the third zone were probably over represented.
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Nellen, W. (1973). Kinds and Abundance of Fish Larvae in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. In: Zeitzschel, B., Gerlach, S.A. (eds) The Biology of the Indian Ocean. Ecological Studies, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65468-8_38
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