Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

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The jawfishes family Opistognathidae represents total 81 species throughout the world under 3 genera, of which genus Opistognathus Cuvier, 1816 comprises 65 species (Biswas et al., 2013). In Indo-Pacific region comprises about 40 species of jawfishes some of them unidentified (Smith-Vaniz and Yoshino, 1985). In Indian coastal water only 7 species were reported (Smith-Vaniz, 2009, 2011 and Biswas et al., 2013): O. albicaudatus Smith-Vaniz, 2011; O. annulatus (Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Klausewitz, 1961); O. cyanospilotus Smith-Vaniz, 2009; O. nigromarginatus Ru¨ppell, 1830; O. rosenbergii Bleeker, 1856; O. macrolepis Peters, 1866; and O. pardus Smith-Vaniz et al., 2012.
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