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Notes on the Record of Gymnothorax pseudotile Mohapatra et al., 2017 (Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from the Sundarbans, West Bengal, India


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1 Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment and Education Research, BVU (deemed), Pune – 411043, Maharashtra, India
2 Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700 016, West Bengal, India
 

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A moray eel, Gymnothorax pseudotile Mohapatra et al., 2017, is recorded for the first time from the Sundarbans. Only one individual was collected from fishermen along with other materials. Brief notes on diagnostic characters, habitat ecology and behaviour as observed are presented in this paper.

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Conservation, Gymnothorax pseudotile, Habitat Ecology, Hotspecks, Sundarbans.
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  • Notes on the Record of Gymnothorax pseudotile Mohapatra et al., 2017 (Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from the Sundarbans, West Bengal, India

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Authors

Priyankar Chakraborty
Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment and Education Research, BVU (deemed), Pune – 411043, Maharashtra, India
Saresh Chandra Saren
Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700 016, West Bengal, India
Anwesha Sengupta
Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700 016, West Bengal, India
Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
Marine Fish Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata - 700 016, West Bengal, India

Abstract


A moray eel, Gymnothorax pseudotile Mohapatra et al., 2017, is recorded for the first time from the Sundarbans. Only one individual was collected from fishermen along with other materials. Brief notes on diagnostic characters, habitat ecology and behaviour as observed are presented in this paper.

Keywords


Conservation, Gymnothorax pseudotile, Habitat Ecology, Hotspecks, Sundarbans.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi%2Fv118%2Fi3%2F2018%2F121639