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First Record of Two Labroid Fishes of the Genera Halichoeres and Cheilinus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Northern Bay of Bengal


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1 ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700091, India
2 ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Versova, Mumbai – 400061, India
3 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata – 700016, India
 

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Two species of fishes belonging to the family Labridae, Halichoeres zeylonicus (Bennett, 1833) and Cheilinus chlorourus (Bloch, 1791), are reported for the first time from Digha coastal waters, Northern Bay of Bengal. Morphometric and meristic measurements were taken and the specimens were deposited in Museums of the ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Kolkata Centre and Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. The present finding constitute occurrence and extension of the distributional range of these species to the north-eastern coast of India, earlier Indian records of which were confined to coral reef areas only.

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Cheilinus, First Report, Halichoeres, Labridae, North East Coast of India.
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  • First Record of Two Labroid Fishes of the Genera Halichoeres and Cheilinus (Perciformes: Labridae) from Northern Bay of Bengal

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Authors

Alakesh Pradhan
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700091, India
Kabin Medhi
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Versova, Mumbai – 400061, India
Bijay Kali Mahapatra
ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700091, India
Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata – 700016, India

Abstract


Two species of fishes belonging to the family Labridae, Halichoeres zeylonicus (Bennett, 1833) and Cheilinus chlorourus (Bloch, 1791), are reported for the first time from Digha coastal waters, Northern Bay of Bengal. Morphometric and meristic measurements were taken and the specimens were deposited in Museums of the ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Kolkata Centre and Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. The present finding constitute occurrence and extension of the distributional range of these species to the north-eastern coast of India, earlier Indian records of which were confined to coral reef areas only.

Keywords


Cheilinus, First Report, Halichoeres, Labridae, North East Coast of India.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi%2Fv119%2Fi3%2F2019%2F139663