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Zoology Marine Ornamental Fish Biodiversity of West Bengal ABSTRACT
Research Paper Volume : 4 | Issue : 8 | Aug 2015 • ISSN No 2277 - 8179 Zoology Marine Ornamental Fish Biodiversity of KEYWORDS : Marine fish, ornamental, West Bengal diversity, West Bengal. Principal Scientist and Scientist-in-Charge, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Dr. B. K. Mahapatra Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700091, India Director and Vice-Chancellor, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Versova, Dr. W. S. Lakra Mumbai- 400 061, India ABSTRACT The State of West Bengal, India endowed with 158 km coast line for marine water resources with inshore, up-shore areas and continental shelf of Bay of Bengal form an important fishery resource and also possesses a rich wealth of indigenous marine ornamental fishes.The present study recorded a total of 113 marine ornamental fish species, belonging to 75 genera under 45 families and 10 orders.Order Perciformes is represented by a maximum of 26 families having 79 species under 49 genera followed by Tetraodontiformes (5 family; 9 genus and 10 species), Scorpaeniformes (2 family; 3 genus and 6 species), Anguilliformes (2 family; 3 genus and 4 species), Syngnathiformes (2 family; 3 genus and 3 species), Pleuronectiformes (2 family; 2 genus and 4 species), Siluriformes (2 family; 2 genus and 3 species), Beloniformes (2 family; 2 genus and 2 species), Lophiformes (1 family; 1 genus and 1 species), Beryciformes(1 family; 1 genus and 1 species). Introduction Table 1: List of Marine ornamental fishes of West Bengal Ornamental fishery, which started centuries back as a hobby, ORDER 1: PERCIFORMES has now started taking the shape of a multi-billion dollar in- dustry. -
Order BERYCIFORMES ANOPLOGASTRIDAE Fangtooths (Ogrefish) by J.A
click for previous page 1178 Bony Fishes Order BERYCIFORMES ANOPLOGASTRIDAE Fangtooths (ogrefish) by J.A. Moore, Florida Atlantic University, USA iagnostic characters: Small (to about 160 mm standard length) beryciform fishes.Body short, deep, and Dcompressed, tapering to narrow peduncle. Head large (1/3 standard length). Eye smaller than snout length in adults, but larger than snout length in juveniles. Mouth very large and oblique, jaws extend be- hind eye in adults; 1 supramaxilla. Bands of villiform teeth in juveniles are replaced with large fangs on dentary and premaxilla in adults; vomer and palatines toothless. Deep sensory canals separated by ser- rated ridges; very large parietal and preopercular spines in juveniles of one species, all disappearing with age. Gill rakers as clusters of teeth on gill arch in adults (lath-like in juveniles). No true fin spines; single, long-based dorsal fin with 16 to 20 rays; anal fin very short-based with 7 to 9 soft rays; caudal fin emarginate; pectoral fins with 13 to 16 soft rays; pelvic fins with 7 soft rays. Scales small, non-overlapping, spinose, goblet-shaped in adults; lateral line an open groove partially bridged by scales; no enlarged ventral keel scutes. Colour: entirely dark brown or black in adults. Habitat, biology, and fisheries: Meso- to bathypelagic, at depths of 75 to 5 000 m. Carnivores, with juveniles feeding on mainly crustaceans and adults mainly on fishes. May sometimes swim in small groups. Uncommon deep-sea fishes of no commercial importance. Remarks: The family was revised recently by Kotlyar (1986) and contains 1 genus with 2 species throughout the tropical and temperate latitudes. -
A New Species of the Bay Goby Genus Eucyclogobius, Endemic to Southern California: Evolution, Conservation, and Decline
RESEARCH ARTICLE A New Species of the Bay Goby Genus Eucyclogobius, Endemic to Southern California: Evolution, Conservation, and Decline Camm C. Swift1¤, Brenton Spies2, Ryan A. Ellingson2,3, David K. Jacobs2* 1 Emeritus, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, United States of America, 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States of America, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States of America ¤ Current address: 6465 Elmo Road, Cumming, Georgia 30028–4720, United States of America * [email protected] a11111 Abstract A geographically isolated set of southern localities of the formerly monotypic goby genus Eucyclogobius is known to be reciprocally monophyletic and substantially divergent in mito- chondrial sequence and nuclear microsatellite-based phylogenies relative to populations to OPEN ACCESS the north along the California coast. To clarify taxonomic and conservation status, we con- ducted a suite of analyses on a comprehensive set of morphological counts and measures Citation: Swift CC, Spies B, Ellingson RA, Jacobs DK (2016) A New Species of the Bay Goby Genus from across the range of Eucyclogobius and describe the southern populations as a new Eucyclogobius, Endemic to Southern California: species, the Southern Tidewater Goby, Eucyclogobius kristinae, now separate from the Evolution, Conservation, and Decline. PLoS ONE Northern Tidewater Goby Eucyclogobius newberryi (Girard 1856). In addition to molecular 11(7): e0158543. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158543 distinction, adults of E. kristinae are diagnosed by: 1) loss of the anterior supratemporal lat- Editor: Tzen-Yuh Chiang, National Cheng-Kung eral-line canals resulting in higher neuromast counts, 2) lower pectoral and branched caudal University, TAIWAN ray counts, and 3) sets of measurements identified via discriminant analysis. -
Ecology, Biology and Taxonomy. Mudskippers
Chapter of the edited collection: Mangroves: Ecology, Biology and Taxonomy. Mudskippers: human use, ecotoxicology and biomonitoring of mangrove and other soft bottom intertidal ecosystems. Gianluca Polgar 1 and Richard Lim 2 1Institute of Biological Sciences, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tel. +603-7967-4609 / 4182; e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]. Web site: www.themudskipper.org 2Centre for Environmental Sustainability, School of the Environment, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, New South Wales 2007, Australia. e-mail: [email protected] Abstract (269) Mudskippers (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) are air-breathing gobies, which are widely distributed throughout the West African coast and the Indo-Pacific region. They are closely linked to mangrove and adjacent soft bottom peri-tidal ecosystems. Some species are amongst the best adapted fishes to an amphibious lifestyle. All mudskippers are benthic burrowers in anoxic sediments, and since tidal mudflats are efficient sediment traps, and sinks for nutrients and other chemical compounds, they are constantly in contact with several types of pollutants produced by industrial, agricultural and domestic activities. Due to their natural abundance, considerable resistance to highly polluted conditions, and their benthic habits, mudskippers are frequently used in aquatic ecotoxicological studies. For the same reasons, mudskippers also frequently occur in urbanised or semi-natural coastal areas. Since several species are widely consumed throughout their whole geographical range, these same characteristics also facilitate their aquaculture in several countries, such as Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippines, China, Taiwan and Japan. Even when not directly used, mudskippers are often abundant and are important prey items for many intertidal transient species (marine visitors), and several species of shorebirds. -
Rhinogobius Mizunoi, a New Species of Freshwater Goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Japan
Bull. Kanagawa prefect. Mus. (Nat. Sci.), no. 46, pp. 79-95, Feb. 2017 79 Original Article Rhinogobius mizunoi, A New Species of Freshwater Goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Japan Toshiyuki Suzuki 1), Koichi Shibukawa 2) & Masahiro Aizawa 3) Abstract. A new freshwater goby, Rhinogobius mizunoi, is described based on six specimens from a freshwater stream in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The species is distinguished from all congeneric species by the following combination of characters: I, 8 second dorsal-fin rays; 18–20 pectoral-fin rays; 13–18 predorsal scales; 33–35 longitudinal scales; 8 or 9 transverse scales; 10+16=26 vertebrae 26; first dorsal fin elongate in male, its distal tip reaching to base of fourth branched ray of second dorsal fin in males when adpressed; when alive or freshly-collected, cheek with several pale sky spots; caudal fin without distinct rows of dark dots; a pair of vertically- arranged dark brown blotches at caudal-fin base in young and females. Key words: amphidoromous, fish taxonomy, Rhinogobius sp. CO, valid species Introduction 6–11 segmented rays; anal fin with a single spine and 5–11 The freshwater gobies of the genus Rhinogobius Gill, segmented rays; pectoral fin with 14–23 segmented rays; 1859 are widely distributed in the East and Southeast pelvic fin with a single spine and five segmented rays; Asian regions, including the Russia Far East, Japan, 25–44 longitudinal scales; 7–16 transverse scales; P-V 3/ Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, II II I I 0/9; 10–11+15–18= 25–29 vertebrae; body mostly Cambodia, and Thailand (Chen & Miller, 2014). -
Information on Distribution of Round Goby
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Continuation of the project on Baltic-wide assessment of FISH-PRO II 4-2017 coastal fish communities in support of an ecosystem-based management Tallinn, Estonia, 13-15 February 2017 Document title Information on distribution of round goby Code 2-2 Category INF Agenda Item 2 – Information of relevance to FISH-PRO II Submission date 6.2.2017 Submitted by Estonia Reference Paragraph 3.13 of the Outcome of FISH-PRO II 3-2016 Background FISH-PRO II 3-2016 agreed that it would be valuable to compile information on the distribution and national monitoring of round goby. The attached document is a paper by Kotta et al.: “Shipping and natural environmental conditions determine the distribution of the invasive non-indigenous round goby Neogobius melanostomus in a regional sea.” Action requested The Meeting is invited to take note and make use of the information as appropriate. Page 1 of 1 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 169 (2016) 15e24 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ecss Shipping and natural environmental conditions determine the distribution of the invasive non-indigenous round goby Neogobius melanostomus in a regional sea * Jonne Kotta a, , Kristiina Nurkse a, Riikka Puntila b, c, Henn Ojaveer a a Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Maealuse€ 14, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia b Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Center, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, FI-00560 Helsinki, Finland c University of Helsinki, Department of Aquatic Sciences, P.O. Box 65, Biocenter 3, Viikinkaari 1, FI-00014, Finland article info abstract Article history: Introductions of non-indigenous species (NIS) are considered a major threat to aquatic ecosystems Received 5 March 2015 worldwide. -
Assessing the Effectiveness of Surrogates for Conserving Biodiversity in the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park
Assessing the effectiveness of surrogates for conserving biodiversity in the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park Vanessa Owen B Env Sc, B Sc (Hons) School of the Environment University of Technology Sydney Submitted in fulfilment for the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 2015 Certificate of Original Authorship I certify that the work in this thesis has not been previously submitted for a degree nor has it been submitted as part of requirements for a degree except as fully acknowledged within the text. I also certify that the thesis has been written by me. Any help that I have received in my research work and preparation of the thesis itself has been acknowledged. In addition, I certify that all information sources and literature used as indicated in the thesis. Signature of Student: Date: Page ii Acknowledgements I thank my supervisor William Gladstone for invaluable support, advice, technical reviews, patience and understanding. I thank my family for their encouragement and support, particularly my mum who is a wonderful role model. I hope that my children too are inspired to dream big and work hard. This study was conducted with the support of the University of Newcastle, the University of Technology Sydney, University of Sydney, NSW Office of the Environment and Heritage (formerly Department of Environment Climate Change and Water), Marine Park Authority NSW, NSW Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries) and the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) program funded through the Department of Industry, Climate Change, Science, Education, Research and Tertiary Education. The sessile benthic assemblage fieldwork was led by Dr Oscar Pizarro and undertaken by the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics. -
A Dissertation Entitled Evolution, Systematics
A Dissertation Entitled Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian gobies (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei) By Matthew E. Neilson Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Biology (Ecology) ____________________________________ Adviser: Dr. Carol A. Stepien ____________________________________ Committee Member: Dr. Christine M. Mayer ____________________________________ Committee Member: Dr. Elliot J. Tramer ____________________________________ Committee Member: Dr. David J. Jude ____________________________________ Committee Member: Dr. Juan L. Bouzat ____________________________________ College of Graduate Studies The University of Toledo December 2009 Copyright © 2009 This document is copyrighted material. Under copyright law, no parts of this document may be reproduced without the expressed permission of the author. _______________________________________________________________________ An Abstract of Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian gobies (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei) Matthew E. Neilson Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Biology (Ecology) The University of Toledo December 2009 The study of biodiversity, at multiple hierarchical levels, provides insight into the evolutionary history of taxa and provides a framework for understanding patterns in ecology. This is especially poignant in invasion biology, where the prevalence of invasiveness in certain taxonomic groups could -
January 13, 2015 London Aquaria Society Tommy Lam from Shrimp Fever Will Be Coming to Do a Presentation for Us
Volume 59, Issue 1 January 13, 2015 London Aquaria Society www.londonaquariasociety.com Tommy Lam from Shrimp Fever will be coming to do a presentation for us. Golden and Dwarf (Nannostomus beckfordi) and that can fit into it. For my pets, Pencilfish Profile dwarf pencilfish (Nannostomus I usually offer them occasional marginatus). Generally they are feed of brine shrimps and I add www.allabout-aquariumfish.com rather shy and would some- the finely crushed food flakes Guest post contributed by Mark Edgar (California) times become motionless, swim- that are specially made for tiny ming at the same spot. The tank fish. Sometimes I even took the Pencilfish is a tiny and that houses the fish should be a effort to introduce a variety of peaceful community fish charac- well-planted aquarium with at foods to enrich their diet such terized by its thin body which is least 50 percent of overall area as growing live daphnia or col- made up of three different color covered with dense vegetation lect these from ponds coupled stripes. There are quite a num- to provide a good hiding spot. I together with mosquito larva if ber of different species that even took the effort to add I happen to bump across these form the pencilfish family group some small empty clay pots so as well. What I notice is that of fish and each has its own dif- that the fish feels more like at my pencilfish simply love these ferent appearances depending home for them. Pencilfish prefer until I find myself unable to on the location on which they to move in groups and if possi- find constant food supply to were caught. -
Percomorph Phylogeny: a Survey of Acanthomorphs and a New Proposal
BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 52(1): 554-626, 1993 PERCOMORPH PHYLOGENY: A SURVEY OF ACANTHOMORPHS AND A NEW PROPOSAL G. David Johnson and Colin Patterson ABSTRACT The interrelationships of acanthomorph fishes are reviewed. We recognize seven mono- phyletic terminal taxa among acanthomorphs: Lampridiformes, Polymixiiformes, Paracan- thopterygii, Stephanoberyciformes, Beryciformes, Zeiformes, and a new taxon named Smeg- mamorpha. The Percomorpha, as currently constituted, are polyphyletic, and the Perciformes are probably paraphyletic. The smegmamorphs comprise five subgroups: Synbranchiformes (Synbranchoidei and Mastacembeloidei), Mugilomorpha (Mugiloidei), Elassomatidae (Elas- soma), Gasterosteiformes, and Atherinomorpha. Monophyly of Lampridiformes is justified elsewhere; we have found no new characters to substantiate the monophyly of Polymixi- iformes (which is not in doubt) or Paracanthopterygii. Stephanoberyciformes uniquely share a modification of the extrascapular, and Beryciformes a modification of the anterior part of the supraorbital and infraorbital sensory canals, here named Jakubowski's organ. Our Zei- formes excludes the Caproidae, and characters are proposed to justify the monophyly of the group in that restricted sense. The Smegmamorpha are thought to be monophyletic principally because of the configuration of the first vertebra and its intermuscular bone. Within the Smegmamorpha, the Atherinomorpha and Mugilomorpha are shown to be monophyletic elsewhere. Our Gasterosteiformes includes the syngnathoids and the Pegasiformes -
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Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 57( I): 143-165 ( 1998) 1 May 1998 https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1998.57.08 FISHES OF WILSONS PROMONTORY AND CORNER INLET, VICTORIA: COMPOSITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES M. L. TURNER' AND M. D. NORMAN2 'Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, PO Box 1379,Townsville, Qld 4810, Australia ([email protected]) 1Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Australia (corresponding author: [email protected]) Abstract Turner, M.L. and Norman, M.D., 1998. Fishes of Wilsons Promontory and Comer Inlet. Victoria: composition and biogeographic affinities. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 57: 143-165. A diving survey of shallow-water marine fishes, primarily benthic reef fishes, was under taken around Wilsons Promontory and in Comer Inlet in 1987 and 1988. Shallow subtidal reefs in these regions are dominated by labrids, particularly Bluethroat Wrasse (Notolabrus tet ricus) and Saddled Wrasse (Notolabrus fucicola), the odacid Herring Cale (Odax cyanomelas), the serranid Barber Perch (Caesioperca rasor) and two scorpidid species, Sea Sweep (Scorpis aequipinnis) and Silver Sweep (Scorpis lineolata). Distributions and relative abundances (qualitative) are presented for 76 species at 26 sites in the region. The findings of this survey were supplemented with data from other surveys and sources to generate a checklist for fishes in the coastal waters of Wilsons Promontory and Comer Inlet. 23 I fishspecies of 92 families were identified to species level. An additional four species were only identified to higher taxonomic levels. These fishes were recorded from a range of habitat types, from freshwater streams to marine habitats (to 50 m deep). -
Patterns of Evolution in Gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae): a Multi-Scale Phylogenetic Investigation
PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION IN GOBIES (TELEOSTEI: GOBIIDAE): A MULTI-SCALE PHYLOGENETIC INVESTIGATION A Dissertation by LUKE MICHAEL TORNABENE BS, Hofstra University, 2007 MS, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, 2010 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in MARINE BIOLOGY Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas December 2014 © Luke Michael Tornabene All Rights Reserved December 2014 PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION IN GOBIES (TELEOSTEI: GOBIIDAE): A MULTI-SCALE PHYLOGENETIC INVESTIGATION A Dissertation by LUKE MICHAEL TORNABENE This dissertation meets the standards for scope and quality of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and is hereby approved. Frank L. Pezold, PhD Chris Bird, PhD Chair Committee Member Kevin W. Conway, PhD James D. Hogan, PhD Committee Member Committee Member Lea-Der Chen, PhD Graduate Faculty Representative December 2014 ABSTRACT The family of fishes commonly known as gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) is one of the most diverse lineages of vertebrates in the world. With more than 1700 species of gobies spread among more than 200 genera, gobies are the most species-rich family of marine fishes. Gobies can be found in nearly every aquatic habitat on earth, and are often the most diverse and numerically abundant fishes in tropical and subtropical habitats, especially coral reefs. Their remarkable taxonomic, morphological and ecological diversity make them an ideal model group for studying the processes driving taxonomic and phenotypic diversification in aquatic vertebrates. Unfortunately the phylogenetic relationships of many groups of gobies are poorly resolved, obscuring our understanding of the evolution of their ecological diversity. This dissertation is a multi-scale phylogenetic study that aims to clarify phylogenetic relationships across the Gobiidae and demonstrate the utility of this family for studies of macroevolution and speciation at multiple evolutionary timescales.