First record of four snapper fishes (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Odisha, East coast of India
Author
Swain, Ritanjali
PG Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur - 760007, Odisha, India; Email: shesdevpatro @ yahoo. com
Author
Kisku, Subash
PG Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur - 760007, Odisha, India; Email: shesdevpatro @ yahoo. com
Author
Nayak, Lakshman
Ayodhya Nagar-II line, Sales Tax Square, Brahmapur - 760010, Ganjam, Odisha, India
Author
Mishra, Subhrendu Sekhar
Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea - 761002, Ganjam, Odisha, India; Email: subhrendumishra @ gmail. com
Author
Patro, Shesdev
PG Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur - 760007, Odisha, India; Email: shesdevpatro @ yahoo. com
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2022
122
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journal article
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10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/167436
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3.
Lutjanus quinquelineatus
(Bloch, 1790)
: Five-lined Snapper (
Figure 3
)
Material examined:
EBEC
/ZSI/F-13366,
1 ex.
,
175 mm
SL, Gopalpur fish landing center, coll.
R
. Swain, 27
th
October 2021.
Diagnosis
: D X, 14; A III, 8; P 16;
V
1, 5; LL 60; GL 10+10. Body depth 2.73, head length 2.64 times in SL; eye diameter 3.31, suborbital depth 5.84 times in HL; less than eye diameter. Preopercular notch and knob well developed; vomerine tooth patch crescentic without a medial posterior extension; tongue smooth, without teeth; scale rows above lateral line rise obliquely; caudal fin emarginated.
Colour:
Body bright yellow; brownish dorsally; five bright blue stripes on sides; a round black spot on lateral line below soft part of dorsal fin; fins yellow.
Distribution
: Indo-West Pacific: from Persian Gulf and the Gulf of
Oman
to
Fiji
, north to southern
Japan
, south to New South Wales (
Australia
) and Lord Howe Island (Froece & Pauly, 2021).
India
–
Kerala
(
Pillay, 1929
),
Tamil Nadu
(
Murty, 1969
),
Andhra Pradesh
(
Barman
et al.,
2004
),
West Bengal
(
Ray
et al
., 2017
), Andaman &
Nicobar Islands
(
Day, 1871
, as
Genyoroge grammica
,
a synonym) and
Odisha
(present report).
Remarks
: This species is known to have distributed along coasts of both the neighboring states,
West Bengal
in the north (
Ray
et al
., 2017
) and
Andhra Pradesh
in the south (
Barman
et al
., 2004
) along the east coast. It was probably confused with
Lutjanus kasmira
(Fabricius, 1775)
in earlier works which is known to occur along the
Odisha
coast. The present report forms its first record from the
Odisha
coast.