Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

Ray, Dipanjan

• New Records of Four Squirrelfishes (Beryciformes:Holocentridae) from the Coastal Waters of West Bengal, India

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ¹, Prasanna Yennawar ², Narayan Ghorai ³

Affiliations
1 Marine Aquarium & Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha-721428, IN
2 Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad-500048, IN
3 Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal-700126, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 115, No 2 (2015), Pagination: 207-211

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The fishes of family Holocentridae (Order Berciformes) are characterized by having large eyes, brilliant colouration with red predominating and spiny squamation (Shimizu & Yamakawa, 1979). The family represented by 8 genera and 65 species throughout the world (Nelson, 2006), however, 19 species from 4 genera were reported so far in Indian waters (Talwar, 1991). The two subfamilies of this group, Holocentrinae (squirrelfishes) and Myripristinae (soldierfishes) are distributed worldwide from tropical to warm temperate waters in shallow water on coral reefs or rocky bottom. The family is well known for sound production and nocturnal habit, hide in caves during day and come out at night for feeding. These fishes are very hardy in aquariums and attractive for the bright colouration.

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• First Report of Two Jawfishes (Perciformes: Opistognathidae) from Northern East Coast of India

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ¹

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1 Marine Aquarium & Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha 721 428, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 115, No 1 (2015), Pagination: 109-112

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The jawfishes family Opistognathidae represents total 81 species throughout the world under 3 genera, of which genus Opistognathus Cuvier, 1816 comprises 65 species (Biswas et al., 2013). In Indo-Pacific region comprises about 40 species of jawfishes some of them unidentified (Smith-Vaniz and Yoshino, 1985). In Indian coastal water only 7 species were reported (Smith-Vaniz, 2009, 2011 and Biswas et al., 2013): O. albicaudatus Smith-Vaniz, 2011; O. annulatus (Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Klausewitz, 1961); O. cyanospilotus Smith-Vaniz, 2009; O. nigromarginatus Ru¨ppell, 1830; O. rosenbergii Bleeker, 1856; O. macrolepis Peters, 1866; and O. pardus Smith-Vaniz et al., 2012.

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• First Report of Brassy Chub, Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) from Northern East Coast of India

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ¹

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1 Marine Aquarium & Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha-721 428, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 113, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 71-73

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Sea chubs belonging to the family Kyphosidae generally inhabit rocky zones and coral reefs of tropical and temperate marine waters worldwide (Sakai and Nakabo, 1995). There are six sub-families, sixteen genera and about 45 species belonging to the family Kyphosidae (Nelson, 2006).

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• New Record of Convict Surgeonfish Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Chilika Lake

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Anil Mohapatra ¹, Dipanjan Ray ¹, Prasad Chandra Tudu ¹

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1 Marine Aquarium & Regional Center, Zoological Survey of India, Foreshore Road, Digha-721428, West Bengal, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 113, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 75-77

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Chilika lagoon, the largest coastal wetland, situated between 19° 28-19° 54' N latitude and 85° 05-85° 38' E longitude and an internationally famous Ramsar Site, is regarded as the store house of rich living aquatic resources. With unique ecological characteristics resulting from two antagonistic hydrological processes (Fresh water inflow and sea water influx), Chilika has no parallel in the tropical world. Fisheries is most important natural resource of Chilika which provides direct or indirect livelihood for nearly 0.2 million fisherfolk.

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• New Records of Two Reef Fishes Gymnothorax reticularis, Bloch, 1795 (Family: Muraenidae) and Scarus ghobban, Forsskal, 1775 (Family: Scaridae) from West Bengal Coast, India

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Prasanna Yennawar ¹, Prasad Chandra Tudu ², Dipanjan Ray ², Anil Mohapatra ²

Affiliations
1 Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad 500048 AP, IN
2 Marine Aquarium & Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha 721428 WB, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 113, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 129-135

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There are numerous studies carried out so far on Icthyofaunal diversity of West Bengal (Manna and Goswami, 1985; Goswami, 1992; Talwar et al.,1992; Chatterjee et al., 2000; Das et al., 2007, Yennawar et al., 2011) which did not report the occurrence of Indo-Pacific Banded Eel Gymnothorax reticularis, Bloch, 1795; family Muraenidae and Blue-Barred Parrotfish Sarus ghobban, Forsskal, 1775 of family Scaridae recently collected from West Bengal coastal waters.

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• First Report on the Occurrence of Four Fishes of Family:Nemipteridae from Digha on the East Coast of India

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Anil Mohapatra ¹, Prasad Chandra Tudu ¹, Dipanjan Ray ¹, Prasanna Yennawar ¹

Affiliations
1 Marine Aquarium & Regional Center, Zoological Survey of India, Foreshore Road, Digha-721428, West Bengal, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 113, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 145-149

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Fishes from family Nemipteridae are of the major component of fishery along Indian coast which consists of 24 species from 3 genera in India out of 64 species from 5 genera throughout the world (Barman and Mishra, 2009; Fishbase, 2010). These snapper-shaped fishes inhabitant of shallow coastal waters of the Indo-west Pacific region have considerable importance because of its edible value. Despite of its fishery importance, occurrences of this family is list reported throughout northern east coast of India.

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• Occurrence of Pennat Coral Fish, Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) along Digha Coast, India

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Prasanna Yennawar ¹, Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ¹

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1 Marine Aquarium & Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha 721428 WB, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 112, No 3 (2012), Pagination: 121-122

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The family Chaetodontidae popularly known as Butterfly fish is an important aquarium fish distributed in coral reefs of tropical and subtropical regions (Allen et at, 1998). They are also important bio-indicator species for assessing the health of coral reefs as they feed on coral polyps (Hourigan et al., 1988). There are 128 species from 13 genera available worldwide (Froese and Pauly, 2012), out of which 38 species from 4 genera reported in Indian waters (Rajan, 2010).

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• First Report of Fusilier Fish Family Caesionidae (Perciformes) from Northern Part of East Coast of India

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ²

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal – 721655, IN
2 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-On-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha - 761002, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 117, No 3 (2017), Pagination: 295-297

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Three species of fishes i.e, of the family Caesionidae, Caesio caerulaurea Lacepede, 1801, Caesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853 and Pterocaesio tessellata Carpenter, 1987 are reported for the first time from West Bengal coast. The family Caesionidae has also been reported for the first time from the northern part of east coast of India. The said species are the first record from northern part of east coast of India.

Keywords

First Report, Caesio caerulaurea, C. xanthonota, Pterocaesio tessellata, West Bengal Coast.

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References

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• First report on occurrence of a rare fish, Keeltail Pomfret: Taractes rubescens (Jordan and Evermann, 1887) from Northern part of East coast of India

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ², Swarup Ranjan Mohanty ²

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur - 721655, West Bengal, IN
2 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 118, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 194-197

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Authors collected one specimen of Taractes rubescens (Jordan and Evermann, 1887) of 655 mm. from Digha Mohana, West Bengal and reported as first occurrence of this species from Northern part of east coast of India as well as from the West Bengal coast.

Keywords

Bramidae, East Coast of India, First Report, West Bengal Coast.

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• First report of a fish of the family Aploactinidae from West Bengal coast

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ²

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur – 721655, West Bengal, IN
2 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 118, No 4 (2018), Pagination: 437-439

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The species i.e., Cocotropus roseus Day, 1875 have been reported for the first time from West Bengal coast on the basis of eight specimens collected from Shankarpur fishing harbour. The specimens were collected during winter along with some specimens of genus Minous.

Keywords

Cocotropus roseus, East Coast of India, New Record.

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• First Record of a Rare Sunfish, Mola mola (Linnaeus, 1758) from Coastal Waters of West Bengal, India

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Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ², Mrinmay Ghorai ³, Prasad Chandra Tudu ⁴, Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra ⁵

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur – 721655, West Bengal, IN
2 Estuarine Biological Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 721428, Odisha, IN
3 Department of Zoology, Panskura Banamali College, Panskura – 721152, West Bengal, IN
4 Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha - 721428, West Bengal, IN
5 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700016, West Bengal, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 119, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 81-84

Abstract

The rare Ocean sunfish, Mola mola (Linnaeus 1758), is reported herewith first time from West Bengal coast of India based on two specimens collected from Digha Mohona (21°37.843'N, 87°32.827'E) by using trawl nets. This forms the second sunfish species from this coast after Ranzania laevis was recorded 18 years back. Past records of this species in Indian waters also discussed.

Keywords

First Record, Mola mola, Molidae, Sunfish, West Bengal.

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• Yennawar, P., Mohapatra, A. and Tudu, P.C. 2017. An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal. Rec. zool. Surv. India, 117(1): 4-21. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117289

• First Record of Butis Koilomatodon (Bleeker, 1849) (Gobiiformes:Eleotridae) from West Bengal, India

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Authors

Sk. Samim Hossin ¹, Dipanjan Ray ², Swarup Ranjan Mohanty ³, Anil Mohapatra ³, Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Life Science, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur – 721102, West Bengal, IN
2 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur - 721655, West Bengal, IN
3 Estuarine Biological Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea – 761002, Odisha, IN
4 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700016, West Bengal, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 119, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 85-87

Abstract

Occurrence of Butis koilomatodon (Bleeker, 1849) (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae) is reported for the first time from West Bengal, India based on two specimens collected from Sankarpur fishing harbour. Systematic account of the species is provided for distinction. Only eight species in the family Eleotridae were known from West Bengal earlier and the present report adds one more to the list.

Keywords

Butis koilomatodon, Digha Coast, Eleotridae, Gobiiformes.

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• First record of Genus Parabathymyrus Kamohara, 1938 (Anguilliformes: Congridae) from Eastern Indian Ocean

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Authors

Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ², David G. Smith ³, Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra ⁴

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur, Bajkul – 721655, West Bengal, IN
2 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Odisha - 761002, IN
3 Smithsonian Institution, Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Rd., Suitland MD 2076, US
4 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700 016, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 120, No 1 (2020), Pagination: 55-58

Abstract

Parabathymyrus macrophthalmus, Kamohara, 1938 is recorded for the first time from the eastern Indian Ocean based on one specimen (246 mm SL) collected from the Bay of Bengal. This record extends the range of the species from Western Pacific to the Eastern Indian Ocean. The Genus Parabathymyrus is also reported for the first time from India with its morphometric measurements.

Keywords

First report, Indian Ocean, Parabathymyrus, Range Extension, West Bengal.

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• First report of two species of the genus Minous Cuvier, 1829 (Scorpaeniformes: Synanceiidae) from Indian coast, with a key for the identification of Indian species

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Authors

Dipanjan Ray ¹, Anil Mohapatra ², Prasad Chandra Tudu ³, Subhrendu S. Mishra ²

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur − 721655, West Bengal, IN
2 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam − 761002, Odisha, IN
3 Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Digha − 721428, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 121, No 4 (2021), Pagination: 505-510

Abstract

Only four species of stonefish or stingfish of the genus Minous were known from India till date. The present paper reports range extension of three species to east coast of India, Bay of Bengal. Minous pictus Gunther, 1880 forms first record from Indian Ocean and Minous trachicephalus (Bleeker, 1855), first report from Indian waters. Further, occurrence of M. dempsterae Eschmeyer et al., 1979 is also recorded for the first time from the Bay of Bengal, extending its known distributional range from north-west coast of India to northern Bay of Bengal. A working key for identification of all species of the genus Minous from Indian waters is also provided for easy identification.

Keywords

Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, M. dempsterae, M. pictus, M. trachicephalus.

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• Notes on Carangids (Carangiformes: Carangidae) from West Bengal Coast with new records

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Authors

Dipanjan Ray ¹, Subhrendu S. Mishra ², Anil Mohapatra ³, Narayan Ghorai ⁴

Affiliations
1 Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, P.O. Kismat Bajkul, Bajkul – 721655, Purba Medinipur, IN
2 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal, IN
3 Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha, IN
4 Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Barasat – 700126, West Bengal, IN

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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 121, No 4 (2021), Pagination: 511-520

Abstract

Carangid diversity along West Bengal coast is discussed with additional record of five more species, viz, Alepes melanoptera, Carangoides talamparoides, Decapterus macrosoma, Seriolina nigrofasciata and Ulua mentalis along with taxonomic account from this region. With these reports of these five species the West Bengal state represents 41 species of carangids along the coast. Status of Caranx carangus (Bloch) from Indian coast discussed.

Keywords

rsity, First Report, Food Fish, New Records, Ichthyofauna.

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