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First record of the scyllarid lobster Scyllarides tridacnophaga from Chennai coast

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Title First record of the scyllarid lobster Scyllarides tridacnophaga
from Chennai coast
 
Creator Kizhakudan, Joe K
Krishnamurthy, S
Thiagu, R
 
Subject New record
Lobsters
 
Description Bottom set gillnet operations for crabs is a
common fishing practice along Chennai coast which
also brings in catches of sciaenids, flatfishes and
rays. One specimen of the giant clam killer lobster,
Scyllarides tridacnophaga Holthuis, 1967 (Infraorder:
Palinuridea; Superfamily Palinuroidea; Family:
Scyllaridae) was obtained in a bottom set gillnet cast
at 20 fathoms off Kovalam, Chennai, during July
2011. Although this species has been reported earlier
from Rameswaram and from the west coast, this is
the first report from Chennai coast. The species is
known to be distributed in the Indo-West Pacifc
region, from East Africa, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and
Pakistan to the west coast of Thailand.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9376/1/156.pdf
Kizhakudan, Joe K and Krishnamurthy, S and Thiagu, R (2013) First record of the scyllarid lobster Scyllarides tridacnophaga from Chennai coast. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (211). p. 13.