Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, 1802

Pradhan, Jyoshna, Balakrishnan, S., Ghosh, Sukanta & Tudu, P. C., 2022, First record of flower cardinalfish Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, 1802 (Kurtiformes: Apogonidae) from Northern part of the East coast of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (3), pp. 283-286 : 284-285

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i3/2022/167231

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scientific name

Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, 1802
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Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, 1802 View in CoL ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 ).

Synonym

1802. Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède), 4: 23, 24 (type locality: Pacific).

1987. Apogon (Ostorhinchus) fleurieu : Gon, Japanese Journal of Ichthyology , 34 (2): 138 (Neotype:New Guinea) .

2012. Apogon fleurieu : Biswas et al., Actaichthyologica et Piscatoria, 42 (3): 255 (Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India).

Material examined: Single specimen; Total Length (TL) 106.32 mm; Standard Length (SL) 80.70 mm; Head Length (HL) 31.58 mm; coll. S. Balakrishnan & P.C. Tudu.

Meristic characters: D VII, I+9; A II+8; P 13; GR 19; LL 23.

Description: Body depth 2.6 in SL and head length

2.5 in SL, respectively. The body is elongated, oblong, and slightly compressed and the preopercular ridge is smooth, and the posterior, and anterior margins are serrated. A large black spot is present in the middle of the caudal peduncle. Each lateral line scale with a small black spot; the anal fin and the second dorsal fin base with a line of dark brown dashes in the fresh specimen. The blackish band from snout tip to eye present. A narrow brown streak is present on the maxilla. Mouth with villi forms teeth. The lateral line is complete. The dark black band is present on the cheek. A black spot is present on both sides of the caudal peduncle which slightly touches the dorsal margin ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 ). Scales ctenoids. Caudal fin forked.

Habitat: Common in shallow coastal reefs with moderate currents at a depth range of 1- 30 m. ( Fricke and Gon, 2010)

Distribution: Elsewhere: Indo-Pacific, Red Sea, East Africa and Madagascar east to the Philippines and New Guinea, North to Hong Kong and Taiwan, South to the Solomon Islands, Thailand ( Fricke and Gon, 2010), Sri Lanka ( Randall et al., 1990), In India; Andhra Pradesh ( Krishnan et al., 2015), Kerala ( Randall et al., 1990) and Tamil Nadu ( Biswas et al., 2012), and Andaman and Nicobar Islands ( Fricke and Gon, 2010).

Remarks: Inhabits coral reefs or rocky reefs. Very similar to Ostrohinchus aureus (Lacepede, 1802) , sometimes treated as a junior synonym of Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, 1802 , has a distinct black bar (broadened dorsally and ventrally, forming a ring around shaped, in adult) forming a ring around the base of the caudal fin.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Apogonidae

Genus

Ostorhinchus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Apogonidae

Genus

Ostorhinchus

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