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Soraia Barreto Aguiar Fonteles Santos2, Alessandra Cristina da Silva3 e Maria Selma Ribeiro Viana3
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RESUMO
ABSTRACT
The present paper presents some physiologic reproductive aspects for pescada do Piauí, Plagioscion squamosissimus
(Heckel, 1840), caught in the Pereira de Miranda reservoir, which is located in Pentecoste district (Ceará state,
Brazil). The study is based on monthly samples collected from August 1994 to July 1995. It is an important species
as it presents high abundance in the Pereira de Miranda reservoir and it is commercially important as a food in the
Northeastern region in Brazil. For microscopic and macroscopic gonad analyses it was sampled 202 individuals. Five
gonad stages were identified for female and three for male. The medium length for first spawn was estimated in 24.7
centimeters for female and in 24.2 centimeters for male. Females spawn all the year along but there are two periods
of reproductive peaks, the first one in February and the second in June.
Figura 1 - Células germinativas jovens em fase cromatina-nucléolo • Estádio IV (maturo) os ovários já ocupam
(Estádio I) do ovário de Plagioscion squamosissimus. grande porção da cavidade abdominal e apresen-
(%)
Vazzoler (1970) que, entretanto, divide o estádio II
40
(início de maturação) das fêmeas em dois estádios.
As Figuras 7 e 8 evidenciam que o compri- 20
100
90
I II III
80 100
70
Freqüência (%)
60 80
50
40 60
(%)
30
20 40
10
0 20
14,6 16,8 19,0 21,2 23,4 24,7 25,6 27,8 30,0 32,2 34,4 36,6 38,8 41,0
Conclusões
80
Freqüência (%)
70
60
50
40
30
A pescada-do-piauí, Plagioscion squa-
20 mosissimus, não apresenta dimorfismo sexual apa-
rente, nem mesmo no periodo reprodutivo. A
10
0
14,4 16,5 18,6 20,7 22,8 24,2 24,9 27,0