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Occurrence of Saurida isarankurai Shindo and Yamada 1972 from the west coast of India

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Title Occurrence of Saurida isarankurai Shindo and Yamada
1972 from the west coast of India
 
Creator Muthiah, C
Neelakanteswar, B
 
Subject Lizard fishes
 
Description A total of eight species of the genus Saurim, Val.
1849, viz. Saurida tumbil (Bloch, 1795), Saurida
gracilis Quay and Gaimard, 1824; Saurida
undosquamis (Richardson 1848). Sourido longimonus
Norman. 1939; Saurida micropectoralis Shindo and
Yamada 1972 Sourido wanieso Shindo and Yamada,
1972, Saurida isarankurai Shindo and Yamada. 1972
and Saurida pseudotumbil Dull and Vidya Sagar, 1981
are known to occur in the seas around India (Day 1877,
Munro 1955, Norman 1935, Rao 1977, Dutt and Vidya
Sagar 1981, Nanda and Ramamoorthi 1982, Fischer
and Whitehead 1974, Waples 1983). Dull and Vidya
Sagar (1981) reported S. isarankuurai from India on the
basis of material from Visakhapatnam and Kakinada,
but did not provide any description. Later Nanda and
Ramamoorthi (1982) reported this species again as a
new record from India on the basis of one specimen
from Porto Novo. While studying the taxonomy and
biology of lizardfishes from the wcst coast of lndia, we
collected several specimens of S. isarankuurai
 
Publisher Bombay Natural History Society
 
Date 1991
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7185/1/JBNHS_1991_Muthiah%20C.pdf
Muthiah, C and Neelakanteswar, B (1991) Occurrence of Saurida isarankurai Shindo and Yamada 1972 from the west coast of India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 88 (3). pp. 461-463.