Re-assessment of a recent Indian Ocean record of the endemic East Asian species Dendrochirus bellus (Actinopterygii: Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae)

Matsunuma, M.; Padate, V.P.; Motomura, H.

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Re-assessment of a recent Indian Ocean record of the endemic East Asian species Dendrochirus bellus (Actinopterygii: Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae)

Matsunuma, M.; Padate, V.P.; Motomura, H.

Source : Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria. 48(1); 2018; 79-81.

URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02332
http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/5288

Date: 2018

Document Type: Journal article

Abstract:

A review of a recent record of Dendrochirus bellus (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) from the Gulf of Mannar, south-eastern India, indicated that the specimens on which the record was based were most likely Dendrochirus brachypterus (Cuvier, 1829), conforming to most diagnostic characters of the latter.

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