Fatty acid composition of eight species of Indian marine fish

Tropical fish oils were found to be relatively saturated. The species examined showed wide variations in myristic acid (2 to 11.3), palmitic (20 to 35) stearic (7 to 16), C_18:1 (7.9 to 24), C_20:5 (1 to 11) and C_22:6 (2 to 10). Mussel lipids and lipids of mullet contained very high percentages of odd numbered fatty acids.