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Diversity and distribution of cardinal fishes in Indian coastal waters with an occurrence report of spot fin cardinal fish Apogon queketti from Central south west coast of India

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Title Diversity and distribution of cardinal fishes in Indian coastal waters with an
occurrence report of spot fin cardinal fish Apogon queketti from
Central south west coast of India
 
Creator Saravanan, Raju
Purushottama, G B
Rohit, Prathibha
 
Subject Demersal Fishes
 
Description The family Apogonidae is a specious family with 346 species, in which
most of them marine and some thrive in brackish water. These are
commonly referred to as cardinal fishes, which seldom reaches a maximum
size of 20 cm. Sixty four species of this family, have been reported from
Indian waters. Apogon quekettiis a valid species and two taxa have been
synonymised with this viz.,Apogonichthys queketti (Gilchrist, 1903) and
Jaydia queketti (Gilchrist, 1903). The genus Apogon which contains 108
valid species (Fraser & Allen, 2010) are mostly marine, living on sandy
and muddy bottom of the continental shelf. Nearly 15 species of
Apogonidae have been reported from the Minicoy Atoll ecosystem and
41species from the Gulf of mannar ecosystem. The spot fin cardinal fish
Apogon queketti has a widespread distribution throughout the Red Sea,
Mozambique, South Africa and Persian Gulf. This paper brings forth the
first documented report of this species along central west coast of India.
 
Publisher Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13045/1/Raju%20Saravanan_2018_Cardinal%20Fishes_IBC_2017.pdf
Saravanan, Raju and Purushottama, G B and Rohit, Prathibha (2018) Diversity and distribution of cardinal fishes in Indian coastal waters with an occurrence report of spot fin cardinal fish Apogon queketti from Central south west coast of India. In: Perspectives in Biodiversity of India. Centre for Innovation in Science and Social Action, Thiruvananthapuram, pp. 172-174. ISBN 978-81-937930-0-8