Open AccessRe-assessment of a recent Indian Ocean record of the endemic East Asian species Dendrochirus bellus (Actinopterygii: Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae)
Author(s) -
Mizuki Matsunuma,
Vinay P. Padate,
Hiroyuki Motomura
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
acta ichthyologica et piscatoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1734-1515
pISSN - 0137-1592
DOI - 10.3750/aiep/02332
Subject(s) - scorpaenidae , actinopterygii , fishery , geography , zoology , biology , fish <actinopterygii>
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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