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Rachycentron canadum
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Description
22. Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus, 1766)
Cobia (Figure 23)
Materials examined: 4 ex., 26.06.2011; Mohana, Digha; Reg No. MARC /ZSI/F1849.
Description: D: VII, 26-33; A: II, 22-28. Head broad and depressed. First dorsal fin with short but strong isolated spines, not connected by a membrane. Caudal fin lunate in adults, upper lobe longer than lower. Back and sides dark brown, with 2 sharply defined narrow silvery bands.
Distribution: Worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters, Western Atlantic, Eastern Atlantic, Indo-West Pacific.
Remarks: The fish has minor commercial value & gamefish. Size: 200 cm.
Notes
Published as part of Yennawar, Prasanna, Mohapatra, Anil & Tudu, Prasad Chandra, 2017, An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal, pp. 4 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117289, http://zenodo.org/record/10913757
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MARC
- Event date
- 2011-06-26
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-06-26
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Rachycentridae
- Genus
- Rachycentron
- Species
- canadum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus, 1766) sec. Yennawar, Mohapatra & Tudu, 2017