Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Riberio, 1915

Mishra, Subhrendu Sekhar, Chakraborty, Priyankar, Saren, Saresh Chandra & Sengupta, Anwesha, 2018, First record of Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Riberio 1915 (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the West Coast of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1), pp. 91-96 : 92-94

1. Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Riberio, 1915

1915. Lagocephalus guntheri Miranda Ribeiro, Arquivos do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro , 17: Tetrodontidae p. 5 (Type locality: stated to be ‘Brazil’, but probably erroneous. The name ‘ guentheri’ is treated as correct by subsequent authors) .

Materials examined: ZSI F 11746/2, 1 ex, 83.9 mm SL, Jamnagar , Gujarat, 3/x/2016, S.C. Saren; ZSI F 12487/2, 1 ex, 73.6 mm SL, Chivala Beach, Malvan, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, 3/ix/2017, S.C. Saren; ZSI F 10765/2, 1 ex, 190 mm SL, Vizhinjam Harbour, Kerala, 2/x/2012, A. Gokul and Party .

Description: Dorsal rays: 12-14; pectoral rays: 17-18; anal rays: 11-12; body elongate with a broad head and no spots. A patch of spinules present on back from front of interorbital region, that doesn’t extend to dorsal fin origin, but only up to halfway through interorbital region to dorsal fin base. Ventral spinules begin from below nostrils and ending before the anus. Dorsal half of body greyish black with several black bands dorsally; body flanks silvery white in colour; a distinct black marking on the dorsal side of the caudal peduncle. Caudal fin dark brown to black in color, tip of the lobes white. Dorsal, pectoral and anal fins pale ( Figure 1 ). Proportional measurements of body parts are given in Table 1.

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf, southern Oman, India, Indonesia, north-western Australia, the South China Sea and probably Japan ( Froese and Pauly, 2018); also from Red Sea (Matsura et al., 2011) and Mediterranean Sea ( Farrag et al., 2016).

Figures

Figure 1. Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Riberio, 1915 a. from Maharashtra (F 12487/2), 73.6 mm SL b. from Gujarat (F 11746/2), 83.9mm SL. c. from Kerala (F 10765/2), 190 mm.