Lutjanus vitta
Authors/Creators
- 1. PG Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur - 760007, Odisha, India; Email: shesdevpatro @ yahoo. com
- 2. Ayodhya Nagar-II line, Sales Tax Square, Brahmapur - 760010, Ganjam, Odisha, India
- 3. Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea - 761002, Ganjam, Odisha, India; Email: subhrendumishra @ gmail. com
Description
4. Lutjanus vitta (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824): Blackstriped snapper (Figure 4)
Material examined: EBEC /ZSI/F-13370, 1 ex., 239 mm SL, Gopalpur fish landing center, coll. R. Swain, 25 th November 2021.
Diagnosis: D X, 14; A III, 9; P 15; V 1, 5; LL 52; GL 9+10. Body depth 2.91 times and HL 2.67 times in SL; eye diameter 4.09 times and suborbital depth7.20 times in HL; preopercular notch and knob poorly developed; vomerine tooth patch crescentic without a medial posterior extension; tongue smooth, without teeth; 9 transverse scale rows on cheek; caudal fin slightly emarginated; scale rows oblique above lateral line but horizontal below. Colour: Dorsal profile of body brown with a greenish tinge, lower sides and abdomen pinkish white, with a dark broad median lateral stripe on sides.
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles, Sri Lanka to New Caledonia, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Gilbert Islands, northward to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan (Froece & Pauly, 2021). India – Andhra Pradesh (Barman et al., 2004), Tamil Nadu (Krishnan et al., 2007), Gujarat (Barman et al., 2000), Maharashtra (Barman et al., 2012), Karnataka (Barman et al., 2013), Kerala (Barman, 2017), Lakshadweep (Barman et al., 2014), Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Rao et al., 2000) and Odisha (present report).
Remarks: This species is reported from the southern neighboring state, Andhra Pradesh (Barman et al., 2004) most probably based on the distribution map given in Allen (1985), however it is not known to occur along West Bengal coast (Barman, 2017) to the north of Odisha. The present paper reports Lutjanus vitta as first record from the Odisha coast with material evidence.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EBEC , R
- Event date
- 2021-11-25
- Verbatim event date
- 2021-11-25
- Scientific name authorship
- Quoy & Gaimard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Species
- vitta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lutjanus vitta (Quoy, 1824) sec. Swain, Kisku, Nayak, Mishra & Patro, 2022
References
- Barman, R. P., Kar, S. and Mukherjee, P. 2004. Marine and Estuarine Fishes. Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, State Fauna Series, 5 (2): 97 - 311 (Publ. Zoological survey of India, Kolkata).
- Krishnan, S., Mishra, S. S. and Prabhakar, D. 2007. Fishes. Fauna of Chennai coast. Marine Ecosystem Series, 1: 119 - 287 (Publ. Zool. Surv. India, Kolkata).
- Barman, R. P., Mishra, S. S., Kar, S and Saren, S. C. 2012. Marine & Estuarine fishes. Fauna of Maharashtra, State Fauna Series, 20 (1): 369 - 480 (Publ. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata).
- Barman, R. P. 2017. A monograph on the snappers (Pisces: Perciformes: Lutjanidae) of India. Memoirs Zool. Surv. India, 22 (4): 1 - 87.
- Rao, D. V., Kamla Devi and Rajan, P. T. 2000. An account of Ichthyofauna of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal. Rec. zool. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No., 178: 1 - 434.
- Allen, G. R., 1985. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 6. Snappers of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of Lutjanidae species known to date. FAO Fish. Synop., 125 (6): 208 pp.