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Present study reports Priacanthus prolixus Starnes (1988) for the first time from West Bengal coast. The species is reported here on the basis of five specimens were collected from Digha Mohana, West Bengal, and Bay of Bengal. The species is characterized with elongated and laterally compressed body, a unique character of Priacanthidea is head bears large eye, scales in lateral line series is about 74-84 and scale rows between dorsal fin origin and lateral line is 10-11.
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New Record, Priacanthidae, West Bengal.
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