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MISCELLAN EOUS PUBLICATION OCCASIONAL PAP R NO. 87 Records of the Zoological Survey of India Valid scientific names to Day's Fish Fauna of India by T. VENKATESWARLU K. V. RAMA RAO Issued by the Director Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICA TION OCCASIONAL PAPER No. 87 Valid Scientific Names to Day's Fish Fauna of India by T VENKATESWARLU Zoological Survey of India, Madras-600028 KAZA V. RAM A RAO Estuarine, Biological Station, Berhampur-760005 Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India 1986 COPYRIGHT, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, 1986 PUBLISHED: MAY~ 1986 PRICE: INLAND Rs. 25.00 FOREIGN £ 3.00 $ 4.50 PRINTED IN INDIA AT GRAFIC PRINTALL, 39B, POTTER,( ROAD, CALCUTTA·700 015 PRODUCED BY PUBLICATION DIVISION AND PUBLISHED BY THE DIRECTOR. ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, CALCUTTA. Dedicated to the Lotus feet of Lord Venkateswara RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION Occasional Paper No. 87 No. 87 1986 Pages 1-48 CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION ... 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2 DAY's NAME Be CURRENT VALID NAME 3 REFERENCES 43 VALID SCIENTIFIC NA MES TO DA Y'S FISH FAUNA OF INDIA By T VENKATESWARLU & KAZA V RAMA RAO Zoological Survey of India, Madrss I NTRODUCTlON Sir Francis Day was a pioneer on Fish Fauna of India. and the author of the famous treaties, the Fishes of India (1875-1888) followed by two volumes of the Fauna of Sritish India (1889). No specific appraisal is needed on these volumes, for every Ichthyologist, whether an academician, or an applied worker invariably refer to these works fgr the basic identification of these fishes. These volumes have been written with utmost care by the auther and provided with excellent illustrations, Inspite of the extensive systematic research that was carried out in post Day-ean times, still the value of Day's volumes remain equally important. The very fact that the Government of India published the photo offset copies of theDay's Fauna of British India (1963) speaks itself of the immense value and popularity enjoyed by his walks. Unfortunately, in the field of taxonomy due to the refinement of taxonomic techniques, often nomenclatural changes are unavoideble and Dav·s publications are no exception. and there fore, most. if not all, his scientific names became obsolete and ,are not in vogue in the taxonomist world. Even though Misra (1969, 1976) tried to revise the Fish Fauna of India'. the names incorporated in his volumes (1969, 1976) also became invalid or emended by subsequent workers. Many of the latest publications on fish taxonomy are, however. inaccessible to a generalist, though not to the specialist, and even to the letter building up of an excellent library on all fish groups is not practicable if not impossible save by reknowned institutions like the Zoological Survey of India. Therefore, there is every scope of burdening the ichthyolo gical literature often by improper names by the generalists, applied scientists and occasionally by the specialists themselves cauling confusion. Recently, Jayaram (1982) brought out his Handbook of the Fresh water Fishes of India, which cover all the common fresh 1. Southern Regional Station, 100 Santhome High Road, Madras-600 028 2. Estuarine Biological Station, Hill Patna, Berhampur-760005 2 REe. ZOOL. Surv. India, Occ. Paper No. 87 water fishes, and alsp ~ -~ood number of, estuarina fis~es,. giving keys and distributional data. Yet, this accounts only a part' of the Va'IiJ8'ble fish fauna of Ind~a. Inspite of all these later ~tilitarian taxonomic or bio-ecological works, still consultation of Day's Fishes of India and Fauna of BrHish India volumes is inevitable,.. last without a passing, reference atledst to them any work becomes incomplete. Revision of D'ay's 'Fauna of British India is, a utopian task and it is. not possible to do so unless and until the Fund of literature and collections of fishes now distributed in many of the museums, unIver sities, and other research Institutions in I ndia and abroad, are available. Therefore, the best course would be to substitute the tatest nomenclature to those fish~~ referred to in Day's works, whic~ will serve as a guide to all consulting Day's works. With the above aim, a list of the current scienti Ie names of the Day's fish. fauna was compiled keeping the latest research publica tions in mind. We'do well realise, that some of the species. referred to by 'Sir Day are infact, composite ,species,. and are now split up, into many complexes, or species,-groups, a.nd provi.ded with seve-ra I. other names. We have tried to give all these individual names against such com~osite species 9iroups at the appropriate places, and the generalist , . shouJd inYariably be careful in relegating the suitable name to his fish depending o~ ,other mor~hologtca' characters and consulting later research public~~i9,ns in all such cases; ( tt is hoped, that this list will provide the basic. tool and guide fot,pll ichth.yologists while using Day's trea,\ises,. I n the text the' seri-at numbe'rgiven rn the first column corresponds to t'De species number in Day's Fauna volu.mes, followed by scientit,ic name' as given by him in the send column and the upto date valid nam'e in the third orf-Iast column.. Where ever the upto date name is not a.vailable (which are very few), suitable comnlente were made. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are thankful to Dr. B. K. Tikader, Director, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta,. Dr. Rt- S. Pillai, Deputy', Director, Southern Regiona~ Station, Z0<:lloglcal Survey of India, M3dra~ for providing facilitIes- and encouragement, Dr' K., 'C. Jayaram, Joint D'irector, and Dr. P.' K,. Talwa-r, Zoological Survey"of tndia, CalcJJJta ,for going througA ,the manuscript critically' and for valuable suggestions and Dr. K. V. Lakshminarayana, Sl~S,' ZSI, Madras for help and encouragement. VENKAT.ESWARLU Be RAMA RAO Scif~ names of Day's fish fauna 3 51. No.1 Species No. Day's 'name Current valid name in F. B. I. 1. Carcharias laticaudus Scoliodon sorrakowuh (Cuv.) 2. Carcharias aqutus "f Scoliodon palasorrah (Cuv.) 3. .Carcharias vvalbeeh,~i Scoliodon walbeenmi (Blkr.) 4. Carr:harias rnu Ileri , Physod~~_ ~ulleri (M.H.) 5. C,archarias acu~i~ens Aprinodon a'cutidens (Ruppell) 6. Carcharias macloti _Hypoprion"macloti M.H. " 7. Carch~ias hemiodon Hypoprion hemiodon (M.H.) 8. Carcha~ias sorr~h Carcharhinus sorrah (M.H.) 9. .. C$1fcf1arias ,du~sumieri Carcharhinus dussumieri (M.H.) 10. Carcharias· gang_eticus Carcharhinus gangeticus (M,H.) 1 1 Carchatias melanopterus Carcharh i nus melanop-teru5 (Q & G.) 12. Carcharia~ bleekerj. Carcharhinus bleekeri (Dumeril) 13. Carcharias ellioti Carcharhinus elliotr :(Day) 14. Carcharias murrayi Carcharhinus ellioti (Day) 15. Carcharias rQ~nisorrah, Carcharhinus menisorrah (M.H.) 16. Carcharias 'imbatus Carcharhinus limbatus (M.H.) 17 Carcharias temm,i,l1cki i Carcharhinus temminckii (M.H.) 18. He,migale~s balfouri Hemigaleol.Js balfouri Day 19 Galeocerdo rayneri Galeocerdo ai1:ious"(Faber). 20. Galeocerdo tigrinU~· Galeocerdo cuvieri (Le Suer) 21 Zygaena blochii Sphyrna blochii (Cuv.) 22. Zyg'aena :malleus, Sphyrnn zygaena (Linn.) 23. Zygaena tudes Sphyrna tudes (Val.) 24. Zygaena. ,mokarran Sphyrna mokarran (Ruppell) 25. Mustelus manazo Myrmillo manaio'1<tBleeker} 26. Triaenodon obtusus. Triaenodon obesus (Ruppell) 27. Lamna spallanzanii Isurus glaucus (M.H;) 28. OdQnt~spis tri,cuspidatus, Carcharias tricuspidatus (Day) 29. Alopias vu~pes Alopias vUlpinus (Bohn.aterre) 30. Rhiflodon typicus) Rhincodon typus Smith 31 Notidanus inpicus Heptranchias 'indict.is~ (Agassiz) 32. Scyllium,m~rmoratum Atelomycterus marmoratus (Benn.) 33. '.Scvlhum capense Scyliorhinus (Seyliorhinus) capensis (Mull. & :Heri-Ie) 34. Ginglyrno:stomC!. cancolor Nebrius conco lor (R uppell) 35. G i ng I ymostpma ',-I11u.lleri, Nebrius ferrugineum (Lesson) 36. $tegostoma tigrinum Stegostoma \/arium (Seba) 4 REC. ZOOL. SUN. India OCC. Paper No. 87 37. ChiloscvUium indicum Chiloscvllium gr;seum M.H. 38. Pristis cuspidatus Pristis cuspidatus Latham 39. Pristis perrottet. Pristis microdon Latham 40. Pristis zysron Pristis zysron Bleeker 41. Pristis pectinatus Pristis pectinatus'Latham 42. RhvncJ:lobatus djeddensis Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsk.) 43. Rhynchobatus ancylostomus Rhina ancylostoma (Schn.) 44. Rhinobatus granulatus ~hinobatus armatus (Gray) RhinobatMs g' anu latus Cuv. 45. Rhinobatus halavi Rhinobatus obtusus (M.H.) 46. Rhinobatus thouin. Rhinobatus granulatus (Cuv.) 47. Rhinobatus columnae Rhinobatus annandalei (Norman) 4a Narcine timlei Narcine timlei (Schn.) Narcine brunnea Annandale Narcine indica Henle 4:3 . Astrape diptervgia Narke dipterygia (Schn.) Bengalichthys impennis Annandale 50. Platurhi n& Schooletnii Zanobatus schoenleinni (Mull. 8& Henle.) 51. Urogymnus asperrlmus Urogymnus africana (Schn.) 52. Trygon sepher:\ 'Oasyatis (Pastinachus) sephen (Forsk.) 53. Trygon bennetti Dasyatis (Pastinachus) bennetti (Mull. & Henle.) 54. Trygon kullli~ Dasyatis (Amphotistius) kuhlii (M.H.) 55. Trygon irDbricata D·asyatis (Amphotistius) imbricata (Schn.) 66. Trygon zugei Dasyatis (Amphotistius) zugei (Mull. & Henle) 57. Trygon uarnak Dasyatis (Himantura) uarnak (Forsk.) 58. Trygon marginatus Dasyatis (Amphotistius) marginatus (Blyth) 69. Trygon bleeker Dasyatis (Himantura) bleekeri (Blyth) 60. Trygon walga Dasyatis (Amphotistius) imbricata (Schn.) 61. Taeniur. melanospilos Taeniura Iymma (Forskal) 62. Pteroplates micrura Gymnur. (Gymnura) poecilura (Shaw) VENKATESWARLU Be ·RAMA RAO: Scif names of Dayls fish fauna