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

Authors

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/139663

Keywords:

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

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Alakesh Pradhan, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700091

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Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra, Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata – 700016

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Marine Fish Section, Z.S.I., Kolkata

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2019-08-06

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Pradhan, A., Medhi, K., Mahapatra, B. K., & Mishra, S. S. (2019). First Record of Two Labroid Fishes of the Genera <i>Halichoeres</i> and <i>Cheilinus</i> (Perciformes: Labridae) from Northern Bay of Bengal. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 119(3), 246–250. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/139663

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