Checklist of order Tetraodontiformes (Actinopterygii) from Puducherry Coasts, Southeast Coast of India with Nine New Records
Author
Mary, S. Nithya
Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Lawspet - 605008, Puducherry, India; Email: sofinithy @ gmail. com
Author
Ravitchandirane, V.
Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Lawspet - 605008, Puducherry, India; Email: sofinithy @ gmail. com
Author
Gunalan, B.
Thiru Kolanjiappar Government Arts College, Virudhachalam - 606001, Tamil Nadu, India
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2021
121
3
393
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journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960
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Triacanthus biaculeatus
Bloch 1786
(
Figure 2A
)
Material examined
:
India
: Puducherry,
Pillaichavadi Fish Landing Centre
(
12°0’31”N
,
79°51’31”E
),
24.xi.2020
,
4 exs.
, leg.
Nithya Mary
[
MBRC
/ZSI/F-2444]
.
Common Name: Shortnose
Tripod fish. Habitat: Marine-demersal. Diet Pattern: Benthic Invertebrates.
Distribution
:
India
:
Puducherry
; Andaman (
Rao, 2003
),
Laccadive
(
Jones & Kumaran, 1980
),
Kerala
(
Kumar & Raghavan, 2015
),
Tamil Nadu
(
Murugan & Namboothri, 2012
),
West Bengal
(
Mahabatra & Lakra, 2015
).
Elsewhere
: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf Eastward through the Bay of Bengal to eastern
Australia
, northward to southern
Japan
and
China
(
Matsuura, 2001
).