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First record of the Indian golden-barred butterflyfish, Roa jayakari (Norman, 1939) (Family: Chaetodontidae) from the east coast of India

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Title First record of the Indian golden-barred butterflyfish, Roa jayakari (Norman, 1939) (Family: Chaetodontidae) from the east coast of India
 
Creator Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
Ranjith, L
Edward, Loveson L
Menon, Muktha
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
 
Subject East coast of India
First record
Roa jayakari
Range extension
 
Description 1512-1515
A single specimen of Roa jayakari measuring total length 85.3 mm weighing 15.3 g was collected from trawl bycatch of a multiday trawler of Visakhapatnam fishing harbour. Morphometric and eristic characters of the recorded specimen are described and discussed. Present occurrence of this species is the first record from east coast of India that is range extension of its known distribution within Indian Ocean.
 
Date 2016-07-21T09:34:14Z
2016-07-21T09:34:14Z
2015-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/jspui/handle/123456789/34953
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.44(10) [October 2015]