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

Paramasivam Kodeeswaran, Jayasimhan Praveenraj, Natarajan Jayakumar

• 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.