Pomadasys argyreus (Valenciennes, 1833)

Habib, Kazi Ahsan, Islam, Md Jayedul, Nahar, Najmun, Rashed, Mohammad, Neogi, Amit Kumer & Russell, Barry, 2021, Grunts (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Haemulidae) of Bangladesh with two new distributional records from the northern Bay of Bengal assessed by morphometric characters and DNA barcoding, Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 51 (3), pp. 299-309 : 299

Pomadasys argyreus (Valenciennes, 1833)

Local common name: rupali datina (Bangla) Fig. 3a

Material examined.

Bangladesh • 1 specimen; F1712SM-14 (129 mm SL), Cox's Bazar , Bay of Bengal, Saint Martin’s Island, 20°36'39.6"N, 92°19'37.2"E, 12 December 2017, Amit Kumer Neogi, GenBank: MK340688 .

Diagnostic characters.

Fin Formula: D-XII, 13; P1-I, 14; P2-I, 5; A-III, 7

Body ovate, laterally compressed, depth 2.4 in standard length; head blunt, upper profile convex; mouth small; maxilla reaching to eye, lips not thickened; chin with 2 pores and a median pit. Scale on lateral line 47, 5 scale rows between lateral line and dorsal fin origin. Color of body silvery, darker above; fins yellowish-brown; a large blue-black blotch on the operculum (Fig. 3a ).

Distribution.

Pomadasys argyreus is known to occur in Bangladesh ( Hussain 1970), elsewhere in Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka eastward to Southeast Asia and south to Papua New Guinea ( McKay 2001; Psomadakis et al. 2015; Froese and Pauly 2020).

Conservation status.

Listed as 'Least Concern’ in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ( Al Abdali et al. 2019).

Figures

Figure 3. Lateral view of a collected specimen, a. Pomadasys argyreus (F 1712 SM- 14.; 129 mm SL); b. Pomadasys guoraca (F 1709 SM- 09; 197 mm SL); c. Pomadasys maculatus (F 1708 SM- 10; 96 mm SL).