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Occurrence of Iniistius pavo (Valenciennes, 1840) from Gujarat

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Title Occurrence of Iniistius pavo (Valenciennes, 1840) from Gujarat
 
Creator Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen
Koya, Mohammed
Dash, Gyanaranjan
Sreenath, K R
Bharadiya Sangita, A
Kamalia Kiran, R
 
Subject Fish landing
 
Description Iniistius pavo (Valenciennes, 1840) commonly
known as peacock wrasse belongs to the family
Labridae. Distributed in Chagos, Kenya, Mozambique,
Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa and lately reported
from Lakshadweep, the species is not reported
hitherto from the mainland of India. Most species (82%)
are found in the Indo-Pacific region, with Australia
having the largest labrid fish fauna (about 33% of the
species and 70% of the genera). This species usually
occurs solitary in lagoon and seaward reef areas with
fine to loose, coarse sand bottoms at depths of 7 to
30 m. The fish can dive into the sand when threatened.
Wrasses are active only during day time, burrowing in
the sand and sleeping in rock or coral shelters at night.
The present specimen was observed for the first time
at Veraval.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9487/1/15.pdf
Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen and Koya, Mohammed and Dash, Gyanaranjan and Sreenath, K R and Bharadiya Sangita, A and Kamalia Kiran, R (2013) Occurrence of Iniistius pavo (Valenciennes, 1840) from Gujarat. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (216). p. 16.