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First Report of Magnificent Catshark, Proscyllium magnificum Last and Vongpanich, 2004 (Proscylliidae: Carcharhiniformes) from Bay of Bengal, Indian EEZ

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Title First Report of Magnificent Catshark, Proscyllium magnificum
Last and Vongpanich, 2004
(Proscylliidae: Carcharhiniformes) from Bay of Bengal, Indian EEZ
 
Creator Ranjan Kumar, Ravi
Venu, S
Akhilesh, K V
 
Subject New record
Shark fisheries
 
Description Present paper reports the occurrence of magnificent catshark Proscyllium magnificum Last
& Vongpanich, 2004 from Indian EEZ, off Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The two specimen
P. magnificum (22.7-32.8 cm TL) caught by deep sea trawlers off South of Sentinel Island at depth of 300 m and
landed at Junglighat fish landing centre, Port Blair formed material for the second report of P. magnificum after
original description and first report from India.
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10599/1/World%20Journal%20of%20Fish%20and%20Marine%20Sciences_CAtshark_2015_Akhilesh.pdf
Ranjan Kumar, Ravi and Venu, S and Akhilesh, K V (2015) First Report of Magnificent Catshark, Proscyllium magnificum Last and Vongpanich, 2004 (Proscylliidae: Carcharhiniformes) from Bay of Bengal, Indian EEZ. World Journal of Fish and Marine Sciences, 7 (6). pp. 479-481. ISSN 2078-4589