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First record of pelican flounder, Chascanopsetta lugubris from Malabar region

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Title First record of pelican flounder, Chascanopsetta lugubris
from Malabar region
 
Creator Manojkumar, P P
 
Subject New record
Flat fishes
 
Description Pelican flounders are distributed in
the Eastern Atlantic: Gulf of Guinea
round the Cape to Natal, South Africa.
Western Atlantic: Florida, USA and
the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil.
Indo-Pacific: off the eastern coast of
Africa and off India and Sri Lanka to
Japan. Few specimens of Chascanopsetta
lugubris (Alcock), 1894, belonging to
Chascanopsetta lugubris
the family Bothidae was observed in
the discarded sample collected from
Puthiappa Fisheries Harbour on
16.8.2010.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16189/1/CMFRI_NL_2010_126_16.pdf
Manojkumar, P P (2010) First record of pelican flounder, Chascanopsetta lugubris from Malabar region. CMFRI Newsletter Cadalmin (126). p. 16.