First Report on the Occurrence of Four Fishes of Family:Nemipteridae from Digha on the East Coast of India

Fishes from family Nemipteridae are of the major component of fishery along Indian coast which consists of 24 species from 3 genera in India out of 64 species from 5 genera throughout the world (Barman and Mishra, 2009; Fishbase, 2010). These snapper-shaped fishes inhabitant of shallow coastal waters of the Indo-west Pacific region have considerable importance because of its edible value. Despite of its fishery importance, occurrences of this family is list reported throughout northern east coast of India.