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

S. S. Mishra ¹, S. C. Saren ¹

Affiliations
1 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata–700 016, IN

Abstract

The fish family Labridae, commonly called as wrasses, is the second largest family of marine fishes in the world, which comprise 71 genera and 520 species (Froece and Pauly, 2015). There occurs 85 species belonging to 28 genera in Indian waters (Gopi and Mishra, 2014). However, it does not include the monotypic genus Xiphocheilus Bleeker. Westneat (2001) observed that this genus confined in distribution to the tropical western Pacific, extending into the Indian Ocean only in an area to the west of the Malay Peninsula. Froece and Pauly (2015) followed the same distributional range for this species.

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R. P. Barman ¹, S. C. Saren ¹, S. S. Mishra ¹

Affiliations
1 Fish Division, Zoological Survey of India, F.P.S.Building, Kolkata-700016, IN

Abstract

During the course of the identification of the fishes of old collections in the holding of the National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India, one specimen of the genus Lutjanus Bloch, 1790 was found. The specimen was compared with known species of the genus and the identity of this species is confirmed to be Lutjanus vitta (Quoy & Gaimard, 1828) which is commonly known as Brown stripe snapper.

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