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First Record of Triacanthus nieuhofii Bleeker, 1852 (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthidae) from Northern East Coast of India


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1 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha - 761002, India
2 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700016, West Bengal, India
 

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The Silver tripodfish, Triacanthus nieuhofii Bleeker, 1852, is reported for the first time from the West Bengal coast along the northern part of the Bay of Bengal, based on two specimens collected from Shankarpur fishing harbour and Digha Mohana, Digha, West Bengal, India. This species might co-exist in the entire Bay of Bengal coast and but often confused as Triacanthus biaculeatus due to very similar external morphology.

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Fish, New Record, West Bengal Coast.
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Authors

Swarup Ranjan Mohanty
Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha - 761002, India
Anil Mohapatra
Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha - 761002, India
Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700016, West Bengal, India

Abstract


The Silver tripodfish, Triacanthus nieuhofii Bleeker, 1852, is reported for the first time from the West Bengal coast along the northern part of the Bay of Bengal, based on two specimens collected from Shankarpur fishing harbour and Digha Mohana, Digha, West Bengal, India. This species might co-exist in the entire Bay of Bengal coast and but often confused as Triacanthus biaculeatus due to very similar external morphology.

Keywords


Fish, New Record, West Bengal Coast.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi%2Fv118%2Fi3%2F2018%2F118502