Recording of Hermaphroditism in Sardinella Maderensis Caught in Lattakia Marine Waters-Syria

R.H. Alshikh Rasheed¹ , M.Y. Galiya² , Z.A. Almajid³ , Hussam Eddin Laika⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.9 , Issue.3 , pp.30-33, Jun-2022

Online published on Jun 30, 2022

Copyright © R.H. Alshikh Rasheed, M.Y. Galiya, Z.A. Almajid, Hussam Eddin Laika . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Clupeid fish occupies the first place in the economic fisheries in the world, as the annual catch rate of its species has reached (11) million tons (more than 20% of the general catch of fish in the world), of which more than a thousand tons are caught annually in the Mediterranean [1] [2]. While doing our current research entitled: "Study of diet, age and growth, and determination of the concentrations of some trace elements in Sardinella maderensis (Lowe, 1838) fish in marine waters of Lattakia coast", after collecting about 350 sardines in the period from 20/10/2021 to 28/04/2022, and when studying the gonads and stages of sexual maturity for those individuals, we found a case of hermaphroditism in one individual of Sardinella maderensis fish, 13 cm long and 18.05 g, caught on 17/03/ 2022 using the gill net, after examining and comparing the data of our current research and with the reference data, we confirm the existence of this phenomenon among individuals of Sardinella maderensis fish in our Syrian marine environment, and it is recorded for the first time.

Key-Words / Index Term :
hermaphroditism, Sardinella maderensis, Syrian marine waters.

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