First record of the twostripe goby, Valenciennea helsdingenii (Gobiidae, Gobiiformes) from the southeast coast of India

By

Kannan, Karuppiah
Sureshkumar, K.
Lakshmanan, Ranjith
Joshi, K. K. (Kunnummel Krishnan), 1960-
Madan, M. S.
John, Sajan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

323

Pages

91-97

Subjects

Bay of Bengal , geographical range , Gobiidae , Gulf of Mannar , Tuticorin

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.323.5440

 

Abstract

Two specimens of Valenciennea helsdingenii (Bleeker, 1858) were collected off Punnakayal coast, from Gulf of Mannar, southeast coast of India in November 2012. The morphometric and meristic characters of the recorded specimens are described and discussed. This is the first record of the species from the Indian waters that is a range extension of its known range within the Indian Ocean.