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Diel changes in the vertical distribution of larval cutlassfish Trichiurus japonicus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2018

Daichi Uehara
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Jun Shoji
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Yuichiro Ochi
Affiliation:
School of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Shuhei Yamaguchi
Affiliation:
School of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Kazumitsu Nakaguchi
Affiliation:
School of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Jun-Ya Shibata
Affiliation:
Environmental Research and Management Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8513, Japan
Takeshi Tomiyama*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: T. Tomiyama, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan email: [email protected]

Abstract

Diel vertical migration of the cutlassfish Trichiurus japonicus larvae were investigated by consecutive 24-h collections at 3-h intervals at a station in the central Seto Inland Sea, Japan in June and September. Only one larva was collected in June 2017, while 224 and 40 larvae were collected in September 2016 and 2017, respectively. Larvae were present only at depths of ≥ 11 m during the day, whereas they were present at depths of 1, 6, 11 and 16 m during the night. Migration was observed in larvae in which swim bladder formation was completed. A similar pattern, namely nocturnal occurrence at shallow depths only of the developed larvae, was observed in another 24-h survey, suggesting that the swim bladder regulates the upward movement of larvae at night.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2018 

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