Occurrences of seven new records of goat fishes (family: Mullidae) from the coastal waters ofWest Bengal, India
Keywords:
Digha Mohona, Mullidae, new record, Perupeneus, Upeneus
Abstract
Thirty eight fish specimens of family Mullidae were collected during the ornamental faunal survey around the West Bengal coast. All these specimens were identified into seven species which are addition to the faunal resource of West Bengal. These seven species are: Perupeneus heptacanthus (Lacepede, 1802), Upeneus guttatus (Day, 1868), Upeneus luzonius (Jordon and Seale, 1907), Upeneus molucensis (Bleeker, 1855), Upeneus sundaicus (Bleeker, 1855); Upeneus taeniopterus (Cuvier, 1829) and Upeneus tragula (Richardson, 1846). The present paper gives the detailed description of all these seven species from West Bengal for the first time.
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Biradar, R. S. (1988). Fisheries statistics Course manual No-14. Central Institute of Fisheries Education (ICAR), Bombay. Pp.229.
Bleeker, P. (1855). Zesde bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische vauna van Amboina. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indïe. 8: 391-434.
Chatterjee, T.K., Ramakrishna, Talukdar, S. and Mukerjee, A.K. (2000). Fish and Fisheries of Digha Coast of West Bengal. Rec. Zool. Surv. Ind. Occ. 188 (i-iv): 1-87.
Cuvier, G. (1829). Le règne animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée, Paris: Chez Déterville. 2(xv): 406.
Day, F. (1868). New fishes of Madras. Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond). 1867: 935-942.
Eschmeyer, W.N. (1998). Catalog of Fishes, San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences. 3:2905. Gosami, B.C.B., 1992.
Marine fauna of Digha coast of West Bengal, India. J. mes. biol. Ass. India. 34(1-2) : 115-137.
Gupta, R.A., Mandal, S.K. and Paul, S. (1991). Methodology for collection and estimation of inland fisheries statistics in India. Central Inland Capture Fisheries research Institute (ICAR), Barrackpore West Bengal. Bull. No. 58 (Revised): Pp. 64.
Krishnan, S. Mishra, S.S. and Prabhakar, D. (2007). Fauna of Chennai Coast, Marine Ecosystem series. Zool. Surv. India., Kolkata. 1:132.
Manna, B. and Goswami, B.C.B., (1985). A checklist of marine & estuarine fishes of Digha, West Bengal, India. Mahasagar. 18(4) : 489-499.
Randall, J.E. and Kulbicki, M. (2006). A Review of the Goatfishes of the Genus Upeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) from New Caledonia and the Chesterfield Bank, with a New Species and Four New Records. Zoological Studies. 45(3): 298- 307.
Rao, D.V. (2003). Guide to reef Fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zool. Surv. India., Kolkata. Pp. 260-267.
Rao, D.V., Kamla, D. and Rajan, T.P. (2000). An account of Icthyofauna of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal, Rec. Zool. Surv. Ind., Kolkata. 178: 381.
Richardson, J. (1846). Report on the ichthyology of the seas of China and Japan. Rep. Br. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 15th Meeting (1845): 187-320.
Sabrah, M. M. and El-Ganainy, A. (2009). Observation on Biological Traits of Striped Goatfish (Upeneus vittatus ) and Freckled Goatfish (Upeneus tragula) from the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. World Journal of Fish and Marine Sciences. 1 (2): 121-128.
Talwar, P.K., Mukherjee, P., Saha, D., Paul, S. N. and Kar, S. (1994). Marine and estuarine fishes. In State Fauna Series: Fauna of West Bengal. Part-2 : Pp. 243- 342.
Thomas, P.A. (1969). The goat fishes (Family Mullidae) of the Indian Seas. Mem. Mar. Biol. Ass. India. 8(3): 1-174.
Uiblein, Franz. (2007). Goatfishes (Mullidae) as indicators in tropical and temperate coastal habitat monitoring and management'. Marine Biology Research. 3(5): 275-288.
Yennawar, P. and P. Tudu. (2010). New record of occurrence of Indian Yellow Boxfish: Ostracion cubicus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Digha, Northern East Coast of India. Records of ZSI. 110(1): 115-118.
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2016-06-30
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Ray, D., Mohapatra, A., & Yennawar, P. (2016). Occurrences of seven new records of goat fishes (family: Mullidae) from the coastal waters ofWest Bengal, India. International Journal of Experimental Research and Review, 5, 1-7. Retrieved from https://qtanalytics.in/journals/index.php/IJERR/article/view/1326
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