Pristipomoides multidens (Day, 1871)

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 : 43

Pristipomoides multidens (Day, 1871)

(Goldbanded jobfish)

1871. Mesoprion multidens Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870 (3): 680 (Andaman Islands).

1985. Pristipomoides multidens : Allen, FAO Fish. Synop., (125) 6: 152, pl. 26, Figure 97.

Material examined: MARC /ZSI/F 2697, 1 ex., 370 mm SL, Digha Mohona, 03.10.2012, Coll. Dipanjan Ray.

Diagnosis: D X, 11; A III, 8; P 16; V I, 5; LL 50; GR 22. Body elongate, roboust its depth 3 in SL; HL 2.84 in SL; interorbital space flat and 4.06 in HL; eye diameter 5.28 in HL and snout 2.88 in HL; lower jaw slightly protruding; both jaws with an outer rows of conical teeth and an outer rows of villiform teeth; a pair of bigger canines well apart from each other situated near the anterior end of both the upper and lower jaws; vomerine teeth in a triangular villiform patch; tongue without teeth. Suborbital with is 28mm. Dorsal and anal fin base without scales; last soft rays of dorsal and anal fins extends into short filaments; caudal fin deeply forked. 7 rows of scales in cheek; scales above lateral line 7 and below lateral line 15.

Colour: Six longitudinal yellow bands along the body; two golden bands edged with dark blue on snout and cheek; brownish yellow vermiculations on front and top of head. Dorsal fin with reddish yellow spot; dorsal fin margin also reddish yellow.

Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, Arabian Sea and East Africa to Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Australia. (Froece and Pauly, 2013). In Indian coastal water this specie was reported from Andaman and Nicobar Islands ( Rajan, 2001); Andhra Pradesh ( Barman et al., 2004); Maharashtra ( Barman et al., 2012) and Gujarat ( Barman et al., 2000).