Melichthys vidua (Richardson, 1845)

Patankar, Vardhan, Paranjape, Akhila, Tyabji, Zoya, Wagh, Tanmay & Marathe, Aniruddha, 2018, Occurrence and distribution of tetraodontiform fishes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Check List 14 (3), pp. 529-537 : 531

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/14.3.529
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA8E50-FF95-FF9D-FCCF-FE63FB445457
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Melichthys vidua (Richardson, 1845)
status

Treatment

Melichthys vidua (Richardson, 1845) View in CoL

We observed 1 individual at Rutland Island in South Andaman region. Body brown with yellowish snout and pectoral fins; white dorsal and anal fin with black mar- gins; white tail with wide pink margin.

Copyright notice

No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Tetraodontiformes
Family	Balistidae
Genus	Melichthys

Specimens

Downloads & Links

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF

Version History

Contribution History