Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki and Kimura, 1998

Mishra, Subhrendu Sekhar, Saren, Saresh Chandra & Sengupta, Anwesha, 2018, First record of Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki and Kimura 1998 (Perciformes: Gerreidae) from North-eastern coast of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (2), pp. 202-202 : 202-

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/119983

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scientific name

Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki and Kimura, 1998
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Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki and Kimura, 1998 View in CoL

1998. Gerres infasciatus Iwatsuki and Kimura, Ichthyol. Res. , 45(1): 79, Fig. 1 View Figure 1 (Type locality: Samut Prakan, Thailand, northern Gulf of Thailand) .

Material examined: ZSI F 11896/2, 2 ex., 108.8-114.6 mm SL, Azadgarh fish market, Tollygunge, Kolkata , West Bengal, 25/10/2013, S.S. Mishra; ZSI F 11887/2, 2 ex., 108.9-127.7 mm SL, Balugaon fish market, Odisha, 06/02/2017, Dr. Basudev Tripathy and party; ZSI F 12520/2, 3 ex., 125.7-143.8 mm, Visakhapatnam Fishing harbour, Andhra Pradesh, 31/08/2016, Dr. A. Mohapatra and party .

Diagnostic characters: Body oblong and laterally compressed; body depth 2.1 to 2.2 times in Standard Length (SL); dorsal profile of body forms almost a sharp angle at the origin of dorsal fin (elevated back); mouth terminal, small, strongly protractile; interorbital width little shorter than eye; snout length shorter than eye diameter; jaws with minute teeth; predorsal distance equal to or slightly less than greatest body depth. Dorsal fin long, single, with IX spines and 10 rays, second spine elongate, more than half of SL; anal fin with III spines and 7 rays; pectoral fin with 15-16 rays (17 in one specimen); pelvic fin with I spine and 5 rays. Gill rakers short, 4 + 8 on first arch; upper gill rakers shorter than lower. Pectoral fin long and pointed, reaching to anal fin origin; caudal fin deeply forked. Sides of head and body covered with large cycloid to finely ctenoid deciduous scales; lateral line scales 40 or 41 to caudal fin base, with 3-4 scales on caudal fin; 3 rows of cheek scales; 4½ scale rows between lateral line and 5 th dorsal spine base. Normally the second dorsal fin in G. infasciatus is more than 50% of SL. In the specimens studied here Colour: Generally silvery, with brownish tinge dorsally and yellowish tinge ventrally; no vertical bands on body at the time of collection and in preserved condition; distal part of pelvic fin white.

Distribution: Gulf of Thailand ( Iwatsuki and Kimura, 1998), east coast of India ( Fukuhara et al., 2006), Red Sea and Arabian Gulf ( Iwatsuki et al., 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Gerreidae

Genus

Gerres

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Gerreidae

Genus

Gerres

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