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Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch & Schneider 1801

Authors/Creators

  • 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

Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Figure 2K)

Material examined: India: Puducherry, Pillaichavadi fish landing centre, (12°0’31”, 79°51’ 31” NE 4892), 23.i.2020, 6 exs., leg. Nithya Mary [MBRC /ZSI/F- 2428].

Common Name: Lunar tail puffer, Green Rough-backed Puffer, Moontail Puffer, Spiny back Toadfish. Habitat: Marine-Demersal. Diet Pattern: Benthic Invertebrates.

Distribution: India: Puducherry, Andaman (Rao, 2003), West Bengal (Mahabatra & Lakra, 2015), Odisha (Pati et al., 2018), Tamil Nadu (Gopalakrishnan et al., 2012), Kerala (Kumar & Raghavan, 2015). Elsewhere: Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Japan to Australia (Randall, 1995).

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 398, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960, http://zenodo.org/record/13186261

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MBRC
Event date
2020-01-23
Verbatim event date
2020-01-23
Scientific name authorship
Bloch & Schneider
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Family
Tetraodontidae
Genus
Lagocephalus
Species
lunaris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch, 1801 sec. Mary, Ravitchandirane & Gunalan, 2021

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).
  • Mahabatra, B. K. and Lakra, W. S. 2015. Marine ornamental fish biodiversity of West Bengal. Inter. J. Sci. Res., 4 (8): 251.
  • Pati, S. K., Swain, D., Sahu, K. C., Sharma, R. M. and Mohapatra, A. 2018. Marine Fauna of Odisha, East Coast of India. An Annotated Checklist of Historical Data of 135 Years J. Aqua. Biol. Fish., 6: 1 - 115.
  • Gopalakrishnan, A., Divya P. R., Basheer, V. S., Raja Swaminathan, T., Kathirvelpandian, A., Bineesh, K. K., Rahul, G. K. and Jena, J. K. 2012. Macro flora and fauna of the Gulf of Mannar - A checklist. National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, U. P., India; 127 pp.
  • 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.
  • Randall, J. E. 1995. Coastal fishes of Oman. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii; p. 439.