Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

First report of two euryhaline gobiid fishes (Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816) from West Bengal, India

Arya Sen¹, Chemmencheri Ramakrishnan Sreeraj^2♦, Chelladurai Raghunathan³

¹Zoological Survey of India, Sunderban Regional Centre, Canning, West Bengal, India
²Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
³Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

^♦Corresponding author
Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

ABSTRACT

West Bengal lies in the Northern part of peninsular India and has a rich variety of aquatic ecosystems such as hill streams, ponds, rivers, mangroves, mudflats, estuarine creeks and small riverine channels which holds a large ichthyofaunal diversity of as much as 610 species. The present work reports the first record of two gobiid fish’s viz., Aulopareia cyanomos (Bleeker, 1849) and Stigmatogobius yanamensis Rao, 1971 from the Sunderban Biosphere Reserve of West Bengal. Stigmatogobius yanamensis was so far thought to have a limited distribution in the Godavari estuaries in India.

Keywords: Aulopareia, Mangrove, Stigmatogobius, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal.

Species, 2023, 24(73), e29s1512

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e29s1512

Published: 6 April 2023