Abstract
The morphometric measurements are presented for commercially important Cyprinids species (mahseer, snow trout,
silver carp and grass carp) from Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir during 2015-2016. The minimum and maximum range,
mean, standard deviation, percentage of various parameters in total length and head length were estimated. The
correlation was carried out for 16 important characters in relation to total length and head length. The coefficients of
correlation (r) for various characters ranged from 0.13 to 0.99 for mahseer, 0.79-0.99 for snow trout, 0.76-1.00 for grass
carp and 0.76 to 0.99 for silver carp. This indicates that snow trout, grass carp and silver carp exhibited a high degree of
interdependence of the various characters, while mahseer have a lower degree of interdependence. This study may be
used as baseline because limited or no information regarding to morphometric measurements of these species is
available.
