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A new species of conger eel, Ariosoma (Congridae: Bathymyrinae), from the Bay of Bengal, India

  • 1. Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India-721655
  • 2. Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on Sea, Ganjam, Odisha, India-761002. & smrutirekhalucy@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8990-8311
  • 3. Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Kismat Bajkul, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India-721655 & khatua.tapan95@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1106-7027
  • 4. Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram, West Bengal, India-721507 & drzoology@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2522-6957
  • 5. Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on Sea, Ganjam, Odisha, India-761002. & anil2k7@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-7039
  • 6. Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on Sea, Ganjam, Odisha, India-761002. & subhrendumishra@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4672-8374

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Ray, Dipanjan, Acharya, Smrutirekha, Khatua, Tapan, Roy, Debnarayan, Mohapatra, Anil, Mishra, Subhrendu Sekhar (2022): A new species of conger eel, Ariosoma (Congridae: Bathymyrinae), from the Bay of Bengal, India. Zootaxa 5165 (1): 133-143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.1.8

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