Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 46(2): 131-135, doi: 10.3750/AIP2016.46.2.10
New biogeographic data and DNA barcodes for the Indian swellshark, Cephaloscyllium silasi (Talwar, 1974) (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), from Andaman waters
expand article infoR.R. Kumar, S. Venu, K.K. Bineesh, V.S. Basheer

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Citation: Kumar R, Venu S, Bineesh K, Basheer V (2016) New biogeographic data and DNA barcodes for the Indian swellshark, Cephaloscyllium silasi (Talwar, 1974) (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), from Andaman waters. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 46(2): 131-135. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2016.46.2.10
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Abstract
Indian swellshark, Cephaloscyllium silasi (Talwar, 1974), is reported for the first time in Andaman waters, India which is a considerable extension of its known distribution range with more than 1000 km toward eastern Indian EEZ. This is the first confirmed geographic distributional record of poorly known deep-water Indian swellshark, C. silasi, in the Andaman waters and first outside its type locality. A detailed morphological description of C. silasi collected from Andaman waters and comparison with other known materials along with the molecular barcodes are provided.
Keywords
new record, morphology, molecular systematics, Indian EEZ