New Record of Bearded Ghoul, Inimicus didactylus (Pallas, 1769) (Scorpaeniformes: Synanceiidae) from the Southeast Coast of India

• Paramasivam Kodeeswaran ^[1] ; Jayasimhan Praveenraj ^[2] ; Natarajan Jayakumar ^[1]
  1. [1] Dr. M.G.R. Fisheries College and Research Institute, Ponneri
  2. [2] ICAR–Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair
• Localización: Thalassas: An international journal of marine sciences, ISSN 0212-5919, Vol. 36, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 539-542
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Bearded Ghoul, Inimicus didactylus (Pallas, 1769), a member of stonefish family previously known to be distributed only in the western Pacific from southern Japan, northern Australia and Vanuatu is reported herein from the southeast coast of India. This report constitutes the fifth species of the genus Inimicus to be reported from the Indian waters. The meristic and morphological characters of I. didactylus recorded in the present study is compared with I. sinensis, a species commonly distributed in the east coast of India.