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Comments on the four new species of ribbon-fishes (Family Trichiuridae) recently reported from India

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Title Comments on the four new species of ribbon-fishes
(Family Trichiuridae) recently reported from India
 
Creator James, P S B R
 
Subject Ribbon Fishes
 
Description Gupta (1966) described briefly two new species of ribbon-fishes of the genus
Trichiurm Linnaeus, viz., T. gangeticus and T. pantului from the Hooghly estuarine
system, strangely enough, without citing earlier literature on the group. Subsequent
to this report, Dutt and Thankam (1966) described two more new species of
trichiurid fish from Waltair, namely Trichiurus russelli and Lepturacanthus serratus.
Later, Gupta (1967) gave further details on the two species he reported. As one
with some experience with the fishes of the family Trichiuridae from India, I felt
the need to comment in detail on these new species based on examination of holotypes,
paratypes, other material in my possession and the published details, the
particulars of which are given in this paper. In this connection, it was also felt
essential to re-examine the types of at least certain species which have been synonymised
with Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus and Lepturacanthus savala (Cuvier) available
at the British Museiun, Paris Museum and Leiden Museum as well as published
details of such species since the new species are supposed to have close affinity to
them and also because the authors of the new species have not paid attention to
this aspect. Particulars of these, made available to the author from the Museums
mentioned above are discussed at the relevant places in the text. There are several
other aspects of these fishes studied by me which have a bearing on these new species
but they remained unpublished for some time. These are dealt with in detail in
the memoir on the ribbon-fishes of family Trichiuridae of India, (James, 1967).
where brief comments on the four new species are also given in the Addendum
 
Publisher MBAI/CMFRI
 
Date 1967
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/981/1/Article_08.pdf
James, P S B R (1967) Comments on the four new species of ribbon-fishes (Family Trichiuridae) recently reported from India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 9 (2). pp. 327-338.