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First Report of the Banded Driftfish Psenes arafurensis (Gunther, 1889) from the Indian Coast

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15908/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41208-022-00394-9
10.1007/s41208-022-00394-9
 
Title First Report of the Banded Driftfish Psenes arafurensis (Gunther, 1889) from the Indian Coast
 
Creator Mahesh, V
Koya, K P Said
Jeena, N S
Kumar, Rajan
Asokan, P K
Vinod, K
Rahangdale, Shikha
Zacharia, P U
 
Subject New record
Demersal Fishes
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description Driftfshes belonging to the family Nomeidae are distributed circumtropically. Among them, four species of the genus
Psenes, namely Psenes arafurencis, P. cyanophrys, P. maculatus and P. pellucidus are reported from the Indian Ocean. A specimen of Psenes sp. collected from a multiday trawler, operated of the southwest coast of India was identifed as Psenes arafurensis based on morphometric and meristic characteristics which were further confrmed using DNA barcoding and phylogenetic analysis. The earlier doubtful report on the species extending distribution to the Arabian Sea was in 1939 by Norman without a morphological description of the species. The study claims to be the frst documentation of the species from the Arabian Sea as well as from Indian waters.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2022
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15908/1/Thalassas%20An%20International%20Journal%20of%20Marine%20Sciences_2022_Mahesh%20V.pdf
Mahesh, V and Koya, K P Said and Jeena, N S and Kumar, Rajan and Asokan, P K and Vinod, K and Rahangdale, Shikha and Zacharia, P U (2022) First Report of the Banded Driftfish Psenes arafurensis (Gunther, 1889) from the Indian Coast. Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, 38. pp. 565-571. ISSN 0212-5919