Length-weight relationships and condition factor of three fish species from Taleghan River (Alborz Province, Iran)

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Length-weight relationships and condition factor of three fish species from Taleghan River (Alborz Province, Iran)

Mazaher Zamani Faradonbe, Soheil Eagderi, Saied Shahbazi Naserabad

Corresponding Author : Soheil Eagderi

Fisheries Department, Natural Resources Faculty, University of Tehran, Karaj. Iran.

Email ID : soheil.eagderi@ut.ac.ir

Received : 2014-01-15 Accepted : 2014-01-19 Published : 2014-01-19

Abstract : Length-weight (LWR), length-length (LLR) relationships and condition factor (K) were calculated for three fish species of Taleghan River (Alborz Province, Iran). In total 113 fish specimens were collected by electrofishing, anesthetized in 1% clove solution in the field and immediately their weights and lengths measured, finally all samples returned to river. The values of the parameter slope in the length–weight relationship were 2.966 for Barbus ciry, 2.96 for Capoeta gracilis and 3.053 for Oxynoemacheilus bergianus. The all relationships between TL, FL and SL were linear (for all cases: r2> 0.98). Also, the coefficient K in the condition factor equation were calculated 0.898 for B. ciry, 0.833 for C. gracilis and 0.830 for O. bergianus.

Keywords : Length-weight, Condition factor, Taleghan River, Caspian Sea basin

Citation : Zamani Faradonbe. et al.. (2015). Length-weight relationships and condition factor of three fish species from Taleghan River (Alborz Province, Iran). J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology, V2I3. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.890176

Copyright : © 2015 Soheil Eagderi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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