First Record of Three Electric Rays (Order: Torpediniformes) from Odisha Coast, India

Authors

  • Sanmitra Roy
     Estuarine Biological Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Hilltop, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • Swarup Ranjan Mohanty
     Estuarine Biological Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Hilltop, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • Anil Mohapatra
     Estuarine Biological Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Hilltop, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • S. S. Mishra
     Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/122903

Keywords:

Gopalpur, Narcinidae, New Records, Odisha, Torpedinidae.

Abstract

This paper reports three species of elasmobranchs of the order Torpediniformes, Torpedo sinuspersici Olfers, 1831 and Torpedo fuscomaculata Peters, 1855 (Torpedinidae), and Narcine prodorsalis Bessednov, 1966 (Narcinidae), for the first time from Odisha coast. The specimens were collected from Gopalpur coast, southern part of Odisha state. Diagnostic characters of the species were presented to record their occurrence and distribution along Odisha coast.

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2020-12-31

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Roy, S., Mohanty, S. R., Mohapatra, A., & Mishra, S. S. (2020). First Record of Three Electric Rays (Order: Torpediniformes) from Odisha Coast, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 119(4), 480–485. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/122903

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Volume 119, Issue 4, 2019

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