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First record of African Sailfin Flying Fish Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes, 1847) (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae), from the waters off Andaman Islands, India

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Title First record of African Sailfin Flying Fish Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes, 1847) (Beloniformes: Exocoetidae), from the waters off Andaman Islands, India
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Creator Y. Gladston
S.M. Ajina
J. Praveenraj
R. Kiruba-Sankar
K.K. Bineesh
S. Dam Roy
 
Subject African Sailfin Flying Fish
Andaman Islands
India
 
Description Not Available
Although the species is known to Western Pacific and
Indian ocean from Marshall island to Japan to southern
Africa and Red Sea; eastern Mediterranean from port
Said to Gulf of Sirda and Near Rhodes Islands (Ben- Tuvia
1966; Fischer & Bianchi 1984; Parin 1986), the present
study records a new geographic distribution of P. mento.
Hence the Andaman waters as mentioned previously
may harbour two Parexocoetus species, P. brachypterus
and P. mento, similar as per the conclusion of Fischer &
Bianchi (1984) from the Mediterranean Sea.
In Andaman & Nicobar Islands, both the species are
caught in selective lesser sardine gill nets as bycatch. The
present record on the species is an additional species to
biodiversity database of fishes of Andaman waters.
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Date 2021-07-20T04:37:21Z
2021-07-20T04:37:21Z
2020-10-26
 
Type Journal
 
Identifier Gladston, Y., Ajina, S.M., Praveenraj, J., Kiruba-Sankar, R., Bineesh, K.K. and Roy, S.D., 2020. First record of African Sailfin Flying Fish Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes, 1847)(Beloniformes: Exocoetidae), from the waters off Andaman Islands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 12(14), pp.17032-17035.
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Language English
 
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Publisher www.threatenedtaxa.org