Seriolina nigrofasciata (Ruppell, 1829)

Roy, Sanmitra, Dash, S. & Mishra, Subhrendu Sekhar, 2017, First Record of Seriolina nigrofasciata (Ruppell, 1829) (Perciformes: Carangidae) from Odisha Coast, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (2), pp. 186-189 : 187-188

Seriolina nigrofasciata (Ruppell, 1829)

1829. Nomeus nigrofasciatus Ruppell, Fische Rothen Meers : 92, pl. 24 (type locality: Massawa , Eritrea, Red Sea) .

1999. Seriolina nigrofasciata : Smith-Vaniz in Carpenter

Material examined: EBRC /ZSI F 8938, 1 ex., 127 mm

FL, Rushikulya River mouth, 05.xii.2016, Sanmitra Roy.

Description: D VII + I, 31; A I, 17; P 17; GR 2+5 = total 7. Body elongate, laterally compressed; body depth snout tip to anterior part of eye and gently convex to to below posterior end of eye; its length about 2 times in head length. Head length about 3.6 times in fork length,

pectorals short, 57.1% of head length. Caudal peduncle ventral grooves present before commencement of caudal whitish ventrally; 7 dark oblique bands and blotches

mm are given in Table-1.

Distribution: Southwest coast of South Africa in the Atlantic; from east Africa to Red Sea, through southern coasts of India to Indonesia in Indian Ocean ; north to maritime states such as Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra (Joshi et al., 2011) and Gujarat (Barman et al., 2000).

Discussions: Barman et al. (2007) enlisted 605 species marine and estuarine waters of Odisha coast with just 28 species belonging to the family Carangidae . Since then, only few species have been reported from Odisha coast, viz., Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes) by Mishra et al. (2010), Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus) by Mohapatra et al. (2013), Monodactylus kottelati Pethiyagoda by Mohapatra et al. (2014), Acanthurus bariene Lesson by Ray et al. (2014), Diagramma pictum

Sahoo (2014) and Cephalopholis sonnerati (Valenciennes) by Behera et al. (2015). However, Seriolina nigrofasciata is hitherto not recorded from this coastal region and this earlier.

species rarely seen close to shore and most commonly 20 to 150 m (Smith-Vaniz, 1999). A ridge reef has been observed close to Gopalpur (Mohana Rao et al., 2001)

m depth along Ganjam coast (particularly near Gopalpur)

such as Apolemichthys xanthurus (Bennett, 1833) (Figure 2) and Chaetodon decussatus Cuvier, 1829 (Fig.-3) which were also not recorded earlier. For obvious reason, there is likelihood that Seriolina nigrofasciata do occur in this mouth by wind and wave action.