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On the little known fish, Chirocentrus nudus Swainson from the Indian seas, and its comparison with Chirocentrus dorab (Forskal)

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Title On the little known fish, Chirocentrus nudus
Swainson from the Indian seas, and its comparison
with Chirocentrus dorab (Forskal)
 
Creator Luther, G
 
Subject Pelagic Fishes
 
Description Chirocentrus nudus Swainson (1839) is based on the brief description and drawing
of ' Wallah' (Telugu name) from the Visakhapatnam coast, India by Russell (1803).
Bleeker (1852) described a new species, Chirocentrus hypselosoma with C. nudus
Swainson as its synonym. Giinther (1868), Day (1878) and Weber and de Beaufort
(1913) considered C. hypselosoma synonymous to C. dorab (Forskal). A detailed
study made by Hardenberg (1930) to re-establish the two species, although indicated
that C. hypselosoma is distinct from C. dorab by the constant statistical differences
found in different characters, did not show any absolute difference in any diaracter
between the two species. However, it has been pointed out by him, as also by
Bleeker, that C. dorab is the more slender of the two species. Subsequent authors,
viz.. Fowler (1941), Smith (1949), Suvatti (1950), Deraniyagala (1952) Munro (1955)
and Robert et al. (1963) considered C. nudus to have priority over C. hypselosoma.
But Misra (1959) considered the genus Chirocentrus to be monotypic consisting of
C. dorab and Marshall (1964) believed that the genus Chirocentrus consisted of
' probably only one species'.
 
Publisher MBAI CMFRI
 
Date 1966
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1006/1/Article_18.pdf
Luther, G (1966) On the little known fish, Chirocentrus nudus Swainson from the Indian seas, and its comparison with Chirocentrus dorab (Forskal). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 8 (1). pp. 193-201.