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

Authors

  • Dipanjan Ray
     Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur - 721655, West Bengal
  • Anil Mohapatra
     Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha
  • Swarup Ranjan Mohanty
     Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/129067

Keywords:

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

Abstract

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.

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2018-06-17

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Ray, D., Mohapatra, A., & Mohanty, S. R. (2018). First report on occurrence of a rare fish, Keeltail Pomfret: <i>Taractes rubescens</i> (Jordan and Evermann, 1887) from Northern part of East coast of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 118(2), 194–197. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/129067

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Volume 118, Issue 2, 2018

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