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A note on the occurrence of reef inhabiting, red-bellied yellow tail fusilier, Caesio cuning from outside its known geographical array

IR@NIO: CSIR-National Institute Of Oceanography, Goa


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Creator	Padate, V.P. Rivonker, C.U. Anil, A.C.

Date	2010-04-04T14:22:27Z 2010-04-04T14:22:27Z 2010

Identifier	Marine Biodiversity Records, vol.3; 6 pp. http://hdl.handle.net/2264/3582

Description	The reef inhabiting fusilier, Caesio cuning, characterized by pinkish abdomen and yellow caudal fin exhibits shoaling behaviour and is known to be geographically distributed from the Gulf of Mannar to the Vanuatu Islands in the South Pacific. The present observation is evidence for the first record of this species off Goa, west coast of India, to be outside its known geographical array. The bay-estuarine and coastal region of Goa influenced by south-west monsoon receives nutrient-rich water during upwelling. Hence the region is highly productive and supports diverse marine assemblages. Moreover, the present observation reveals very low numbers (N=4) of this species in the light of the trawl hauls (N=92) with a core sampling effort of 146 hours, wherein it was found to occur only in two hauls. The paper also provides detailed insight into the description of C. cuning from this region with orthodox taxonomic methods including morphometry and meristic counts.

Language	en

Publisher	Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Rights	An edited version of this paper was published by Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Copyright [2010].It is tried to respect the rights of the copyright holders to the best of the knowledge. If it is brought to our notice that the rights are violated then the item would be withdrawn.

Subject	reef inhabiting Caesio cuning reef fish

Title	A note on the occurrence of reef inhabiting, red-bellied yellow tail fusilier, Caesio cuning from outside its known geographical array

Type	Journal Article