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New Sighting Records of Four Coral Reef Fishes from Andaman and Nicobar Islands


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1 Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair-744102, India
2 Dive India, Havelock, South Andaman, India
 

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The last few years have seen a significant increase of knowledge about the fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. During this study, four new record of fishes were made under 1 order, 2 families and 4 genera: Lepidozygus tapeinosoma (Bleeker, 1856), Neopomacentrus cyanomos (Bleeker, 1856), Pomacentrus pavo (Bloch, 1787), and Acanthurus auranticavus Randall, 1956 associated with coral reefs.
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P. T. Rajan
Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair-744102, India
N. Vikas
Dive India, Havelock, South Andaman, India

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The last few years have seen a significant increase of knowledge about the fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. During this study, four new record of fishes were made under 1 order, 2 families and 4 genera: Lepidozygus tapeinosoma (Bleeker, 1856), Neopomacentrus cyanomos (Bleeker, 1856), Pomacentrus pavo (Bloch, 1787), and Acanthurus auranticavus Randall, 1956 associated with coral reefs.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v116i3.156799