First Report of Reef associated fish,  Apolemichthys xanthurus  (Pomacanthidae) from Andhra Pradesh coast, India

Sanmitra Roy; Swarup R. Mohanty; Anil Mohapatra

doi:10.1134/S0032945219050138

First Report of Reef associated fish, Apolemichthys xanthurus (Pomacanthidae) from Andhra Pradesh coast, India

Authors: Roy S.¹, Mohanty S.R.¹, Mohapatra A.¹
Affiliations:
1. Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India
Issue: Vol 59, No 5 (2019)
Pages: 823-826
Section: Short Communications
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0032-9452/article/view/168405
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945219050138
ID: 168405

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The present paper reports one reef associated fish species of the family Pomacanthidae, Apolemichthys xanthurus (Bennett, 1833) for the first time from the Andhra Pradesh coast. The specimen was collected from Kumbhabhishekam fishing harbour, Kakinada. Current manuscript deals with species description, morphometric and meristic characters to record its occurrence along Andhra Pradesh coast.