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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India
Additions to the reef fish fauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The present study records the occurrence of two Tetraodontiformes fishes, Thamnaconus multilineatus (Tanaka, 1918), Torquigener brevipinnis (Regan, 1903) and a blue banded wrasse, Choerodon typus (Bleeker 1856), new to Andaman and Nicobar Islands (A and N Islands). A single specimen of the monacanthid T. multilineatus of total length (TL) 181 mm was caught by a trawler operated off Mayabunder, Middle Andaman from a depth range of 30–50 m. T. brevipinnis of 81.5 mm TL was caught as bycatch by a gill netter targeting anchovies off Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island, South Andaman, from a depth of 25 m. c. typus of length range 113-120 mm was caught off Swaraj Island, South Andaman from a depth range of 30-50 m. This study represents the first distribution record of T. multilineatus in Indian waters.
Monacanthidae, puffer fish, first record, tetraodontidae, Eastern Indian Ocean
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