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First record of occurrence of Boulenger’s anthias Sacura boulengeri (Heemstra, 1973), Family: Serranidae, in Indian waters

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Title First record of occurrence of Boulenger’s anthias Sacura boulengeri (Heemstra, 1973), Family: Serranidae, in Indian waters
 
Creator Thomas, Sujitha
Sreeram, Miriam Paul
George, Rani Mary
Naomi, T S
Sanil, N K
 
Subject New record
Demersal Fishes
Fish and Fisheries
 
Description Previously known only from the Gulf of Oman off Muscat and Pakistan off Sindh, this record is the first
from Indian waters for Boulenger’s anthias, Sacura boulengeri. Morphometric and meristic characters of
the specimens collected from the west coast of India complement those of the specimens from the Gulf of
Oman (05 adult males; lectotype) and Pakistan (01 adult male) examined by Heemstra and Randall (1979)and Moazzam and Osmany (2004) respectively. Hitherto known only from male specimens, the present study records the morphometric and meristic characteristics of a female specimen. The identification key provided by Heemstra and Randall (1979) requires to be revised as the number of gill rakers present in the lower limb of the first gill is lesser than that stipulated as a diagnostic character in the earlier works.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2241/1/Sujitha_Thomas.pdf
Thomas, Sujitha and Sreeram, Miriam Paul and George, Rani Mary and Naomi, T S and Sanil, N K (2008) First record of occurrence of Boulenger’s anthias Sacura boulengeri (Heemstra, 1973), Family: Serranidae, in Indian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 50 (1). pp. 69-73.