First Record of Bengal Sand diver, Trichonotus cyclograptus (Alcock, 1890) (Family: Trichonotidae) from Southern Part of East Coast, India

Authors

  • Sanmitra Roy
     Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha
  • Goutham Sambath
     Marine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, 130, Santhome High Road, Chennai - 600028
  • Anil Mohapatra
     Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha
  • Rajkumar Rajan
     Marine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, 130, Santhome High Road, Chennai - 600028

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/137739

Keywords:

New Record, Tamil Nadu, Trichonotidae.

Abstract

This paper brings the first distributional record of a sand diver fish of the family Trichonotidae: Trichonotus cyclograptus (Alcock, 1890) from the southern part of East Coast, India. The specimen reported was collected from the fish landing site at Kasimedu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Until now, only one species of the family Trichonotidae i.e., Trichonotus setiger Bloch & Schneider, 1801 has been reported from southern part of east coast, and the present report adds the tally to two species under this family for this region. Though Trichonotus cyclograptus (Alcock, 1890) was originally described from Odisha coast, only recently this species has been reported from the coast of West Bengal. The present report confirms the distribution of this species along the Indian coast of Bay of Bengal, and the probable case of endemism to this region due to the absence of reports from elsewhere since its original description.

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2019-12-31

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Roy, S., Sambath, G., Mohapatra, A., & Rajan, R. (2019). First Record of Bengal Sand diver, <i>Trichonotus cyclograptus</i> (Alcock, 1890) (Family: Trichonotidae) from Southern Part of East Coast, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 119(4), 489–491. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/137739

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Volume 119, Issue 4, 2019

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