Published December 31, 2021 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Sufflamen fraenatum Latreille 1804

  • 1. Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Lawspet - 605008, Puducherry, India; Email: sofinithy @ gmail. com
  • 2. Thiru Kolanjiappar Government Arts College, Virudhachalam - 606001, Tamil Nadu, India

Description

Sufflamen fraenatum Latreille, 1804 (Figure 2F)

Material examined: India: Puducherry, Nallavadu fish landing centre, (11°51’32”, 79°48’56” NE 3543),25.i.2020,1 ex., leg. Nithya Mary [MBRC /ZSI/F- 2442].

Common Name: Masked triggerfish. Habitat: Marine-Reef Associated. Diet Pattern: Invertebrates/Zooplankton.

Distribution: India: Puducherry, Andaman (Rao, 2003), Andhra Pradesh (Barman et al., 2004), Tamil Nadu (Abdussamad et al., 2009), and Kerala (Kumar & Raghavan, 2015). Elsewhere: East Africa south to Natal, South Africa (Smith & Heemstra, 1986).

Notes

Published as part of Mary, S. Nithya, Ravitchandirane, V. & Gunalan, B., 2021, Checklist of order Tetraodontiformes (Actinopterygii) from Puducherry Coasts, Southeast Coast of India with Nine New Records, pp. 393-404 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3) on page 396, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960, http://zenodo.org/record/13186261

Files

Files (993 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:1d1ff6beaba6cc8bfab8d4d784de1727
993 Bytes Download

System files (8.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:cd072dc98804cefdea8a3be04efdbd57
8.2 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

References

  • Rao, D. V. 2003. Guide to Reef Fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands; p. 1 - 555. (Published by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata).
  • Barman, R. P., Kar, S. and Mukherjee, P. 2004. Marine and Estuarine fishes. In: Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, State Fauna Series, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 5 (2): 97 - 311.
  • Abdussamad, E. M., Joshi, K. K., Balasubramanian, T. S., Zacharia, P. U and Jeyabalan, K. 2009. Emergence of triggerfishes (Family: Balistidae) as an alternate lucrative target fishery for trawls along the Tuticorin coast in Gulf of Mannar. Marine Fisheries Information Service T & E Ser., No. 199; p. 1 - 6.
  • Kumar, B. and Raghavan, R. 2015. A checklist of fishes of Kerala, India. J. Thr. Taxa. 7. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / jott. 2004.7.13.8036 - 8080.
  • Smith, M. M. and Heemstra, P. C. 1986. Tetraodontidae. In: M. M. Smith and P. C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin; p. 894 - 903. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 642 - 82858 - 4.