Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 47(4): 407-410, doi: 10.3750/AIEP/02233
Record of ocellated shrimp goby, Tomiyamichthys russus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), from the Andaman Islands, India
J. Praveenraj, P.T. Rajan, R. Kiruba-Sankar, S. Dam RoyCorresponding author: J. Praveenraj © J. Praveenraj, P.T. Rajan, R. Kiruba-Sankar, S. Dam Roy. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Praveenraj J, Rajan P, Kiruba-Sankar R, Dam Roy S (2017) Record of ocellated shrimp goby, Tomiyamichthys russus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), from the Andaman Islands, India. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 47(4): 407-410. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02233 |  |
Abstract
The ocellated shrimp goby, Tomiyamichthys russus (Cantor, 1849), is reported for the first time from the Andaman Islands, India based on a single, female specimen collected during a shore seine operation at Port Blair, South Andaman. The examined specimen is described taking into account the meristics, morphometry, sensory pore arrangement, and the papillae pattern. This finding constitutes the first report of the genus Tomiyamichthys from the Andaman Sea, with a range extension towards Andaman coast. Plain.
Keywords
Island, Archipelago, marine goby, marine fish, range extension, morphology