Pinjalo pinjalo (Bleeker, 1850)

Ray, Dipanajan, Mohapatra, Anil, Mishra, S. S., Yennawar, Prasanna & Ghorai, Narayan, 2017, Snappers (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) of West Bengal coast with eight new records and a key for their identification, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 39-48 : 42

Pinjalo pinjalo (Bleeker, 1850)

( Pinjalo )

1850. Caesio pinjalo Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genoot. Kunst. Wet. , 23 (7): 10 (Java, Indonesia).

1985. Pinjalo pinjalo Allen, FAO Fish. Synop. , (125) 6: 139, pl. 25, Figure 91.

Material examined: MARC /ZSI/F 1676, 5 ex., 100-125 mm SL, Digha Mohona, 22.02.2011, Coll. D. Ray.

Diagnosis: D XI, 14; A III, 10; P 18; V I, 5; LL 49-50; GR

21. Body moderately deep, its depth 2.32-2.90 in SL; dorsal profile of head high, HL 2.87-3.35 in SL; snout short and pointed its depth 4.42-4.55 in HL; mouth small and oblique; maxilla reaching to below anterior border of eye; interorbital space convex and 2.42-2.62 in HL; eye large with adipose eyelid and 3.5-3.85 in HL. Lower edge of eye touching the line from snout tip to upper pectoral fin base. A sharply bent band of small teeth on vomer and an elongate band on palatine. Both above and below lateral line appear to rise obliquely toward dorsal profile; predorsal scales on top of head beginning above middle of eyes. 6 transverse rows of scales on preoperculum. 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th dorsal spines are longest; second anal spine longest and strongest; soft dorsal and anal rounded; caudal slightly emarginate.

Colour: Body pinkish, silvery white on lower sides and belly; dorsal, anal, caudal and pelvic fins with black margin; pelvic and anal fins yellowish.

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Papua ( Papua New Guinea), north to Taiwan (Froece and Pauly, 2013).In Indian coastal waters this species was reported from Andaman & Nicobar Island ( Rao, 2009); Kerala ( Naomi et al., 2011); Andhra Pradesh ( Barman et al., 2004); Gujarat ( Barman et al., 2000); Tamil Nadu ( Barman et al., 2011), Gulf of Mannar ( Varghese et al, 2011) and Maharashtra ( Barman et al., 2012).