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First record of Pomadasys furcatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) from Saurashtra coast of Gujarat

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Title First record of Pomadasys furcatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
from Saurashtra coast of Gujarat
 
Creator Dash, Gyanaranjan
Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen
Sreenath, K R
Koya, Mohammed
Mojjada, Suresh Kumar
Bharadiya Sangita, A
Kiran, K
 
Subject New record
Fish landing
 
Description A single specimen of the Banded grunt,
Pomadasys furcatus (Schneider, 1801) belonging to
the family Haemulidae was collected at Bhidiya near
Veraval landing centre on 22nd December, 2012. The
fish was caught by a single day boat locally called
as “Hodi” operated at a depth of 10-20 m near
Veraval. The fish was 33.3 cm long and weighed
608 g. It is mainly a tropical reef associated fish
distributed in Indo-west Pacific region. Earlier the
fish has been reported from Andaman and Nicobar
islands of India. Though known to be distributed in
the Western Indian Ocean, hitherto it has not been
reported from Gujarat.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9494/1/22.pdf
Dash, Gyanaranjan and Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen and Sreenath, K R and Koya, Mohammed and Mojjada, Suresh Kumar and Bharadiya Sangita, A and Kiran, K (2013) First record of Pomadasys furcatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) from Saurashtra coast of Gujarat. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (216). pp. 23-24.