Check List 18(5): 973-977, doi: 10.15560/18.5.973
First distributional record of Parascolopsis akatamae Miyamoto, McMahan, & Kaneko, 2020, a dwarf monocle bream (Perciformes, Nemipteridae), from Indian waters
Gopalan Mahadevan‡, Perumal Murugesan§, Giri Bhavan Sreekanth|, Kei Miyamoto¶, Caleb D. McMahan#‡ Annamalai University, Parangipettai, India§ Annamalai University, Cuddalore, India| ICAR – Central Coastal Agricultural Research Institute, Goa, India¶ Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Okinawa, Japan# Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, United States of America
Corresponding author: Gopalan Mahadevan ( marinemahadevan@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Zeehan Jaafar © Gopalan Mahadevan, Perumal Murugesan, Giri Bhavan Sreekanth, Kei Miyamoto, Caleb D. McMahan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Mahadevan G, Murugesan P, Sreekanth GB, Miyamoto K, McMahan CD (2022) First distributional record of Parascolopsis akatamae Miyamoto, McMahan, & Kaneko, 2020, a dwarf monocle bream (Perciformes, Nemipteridae), from Indian waters. Check List 18(5): 973-977. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.5.973 |  |
Abstract
New records of Parascolopsis akatamae Miyamoto, McMahan, & Kaneko, 2020 are reported from India’s southeast coast. Three specimens were collected in April 2021 on the Parangipettai coast, Tamil Nadu, India. We examined and compared morphometric and meristic characters of our specimens with published data from the holotype. The new India records expand the known distribution of P. akatamae, which had previously been reported from southern Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Thailand. Parascolopsis akatamae is a new addition to the list of marine fishes from Indian coastal waters.
Keywords
Fish, India, marine, Parangipettai, species report