Resumen de Notes on the Poorly Known Velvetfish Cocotropus roseus (Scorpaeniformes: Aploactinidae) from the Eastern Indian Ocean

Paramasivam Kodeeswaran, Jayasimhan Praveenraj, Ronald Fricke, Arumugam Uma, Natarajan Jayakumar

• The present study provides notes on Cocotropus roseus Day, 1875, a poorly known endemic fish from the Bay of Bengal, Eastern Indian Ocean. The morphometric data and color images are provided herein based on fresh specimens collected from Chennai, south India, its type locality, Bay of Bengal, Eastern Indian Ocean