New Record of Two Species of Epinephelus (Perciformes:Serranidae:Epinephelinae) from Andaman Islands, India

Andaman Nicobar Islands situated in the Bay of Bengal between 6°45´-13 45´ N and 92°10´-94°15´ E consist of 572 islands, islets and rocks and covers a distance of almost 750 km North-South, with a coastline of 1962 km, and bring in for India, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 600 thousand km². A comprehensive and authoritative account of fishes of the Indian region including Andaman and Nicobar Islands was published by Francis Day (1870). Herre (1941) listed 490 species of fishes. Talwar (1990) prepared a comprehensive list of fishes consisting of 724 species; followed by Rajan (2002) and Rajan et al. (2013) listed a total of 1434 species of fish including 48 species of groupers. Randall and Heemstra (1991) described 110 species of groupers from Indo-Pacific region.