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New Distributional Record of Deep Sea Snake Fish Acanthocepola indica (Day, 1888) from the Southwest Coast of India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13836/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41208-019-00131-9
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-019-00131-9
 
Title New Distributional Record of Deep Sea Snake Fish
Acanthocepola indica (Day, 1888) from the Southwest Coast of India
 
Creator Mahesh, V
Asokan, P K
Jeena, N S
Vinod, K
Koya, K P Said
Zacharia, P U
 
Subject Demersal Fishes
 
Description Deep sea snake fishes or band fishes belonging to the Family Cepolidae are widespread in eastern Atlantic, but rare in the central
Indo-Pacific Ocean.A specimen of Acanthocepola sp. measuring 556mmin total length (TL) weighing 139 g was collected from
a multiday trawler, operated off the southwest coast of India and landed at Beypore Fisheries harbour, Calicut, Kerala on 9th
November 2017. The species was identified as A. indicus based on morphometric and meristic characteristics which was later
confirmed by DNA barcoding.
 
Date 2019
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13836/1/Thalassas_2019_Mahesh%20V_Acanthocepola%20indica%20Band%20fish%20Cepolidae%20Calicut%20India.pdf
Mahesh, V and Asokan, P K and Jeena, N S and Vinod, K and Koya, K P Said and Zacharia, P U (2019) New Distributional Record of Deep Sea Snake Fish Acanthocepola indica (Day, 1888) from the Southwest Coast of India. Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences. pp. 1-6. ISSN 0212-5919