Lutjanus quinquelineatus (Bloch, 1790)

Swain, Ritanjali, Kisku, Subash, Nayak, Lakshman, Mishra, Subhrendu Sekhar & Patro, Shesdev, 2022, First record of four snapper fishes (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Odisha, East coast of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (1), pp. 43-49 : 44-45

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.

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Figure 3. Lutjanus quinquelineatus (Bloch).