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Number of fish taxons in different regions of the Arabian shelf Region of the shelf Taxon families n (%) genera n (%) species n (%)
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Based on new data and numerous literature sources we present a list of coastal fishes of the Arabian
Sea found at depths up to 500 m which includes 1769 species from 720 genera and 198 families. Brief characteristics
of families are provided, as well as their overall composition and that of the region studied. The most
abundant taxa are noted. The...
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... B. cotticeps is a tropical fish and has a wide distribution range. Southwestern Japan, Taiwan, western central pacific (Akihito & Meguro, 1980;Akihito et al., 2002), western coast of India (Manilo & Bogorodsky, 2003;Sreeraj et al., 2022), and Korea (this study). ...
... Distribution. Egglestonichthys bombylios is known from the Arafura Sea and Van Diemen Gulf, northern Australia, off Bombay, India (Larson & Hoese 1997), Arabian Sea (Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003), Vietnam (Prokofiev 2016) and Philippines (Motomura et al. 2017). In the present study, we collected specimens of this species from Dongshan Bay (Fujian Province) and from Sanmen Bay and Niushan Island (Zhejiang Province). ...
During bottom trawl surveys carried out between 2013–2021, 52 specimens (33.8–54.0 mm SL) of Egglestone’s bumblebee goby Egglestonichthys bombylios were collected at a depth of 1.5–15 m from Dongshan Bay, Sanmen Bay, and Niushan Island, China. They represent the first records of this species from China. A full description, including fresh colouration of the species is provided as it is poorly known. The individuals collected in China agree with most morphological features of the holotype, except for the pelvic fin fraenum that was not observed or appears to be absent in most specimens. A strong relationship between E. bombylios, Larsonella pumilus, and the genus Priolepis is herein demonstrated by the mitochondrial genome sequences of E. bombylios and twenty closely related species. This study enriches the existing genetic data of the so-called Priolepis lineage and provides useful insights into the phylogenetic relationships across species of the genera Egglestonichthys, Priolepis, and Larsonella.
... A. splendens was first discovered in the Gulf of Oman in 1909 as Synagrops splendens by Llyod. In the Arabian Sea, this species has been misreported as Acropoma japonicum by many authors (Fowler 1927;Norman 1939;Kotthaus 1974;Heemstra 1984; Balachandran and Nizar 1990;Carpenter et al. 1997;Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003;Javadzadeh et al. 2012; Psomadakis et al. 2015) [7,24,17,13,1,3,20,14,31] until 2016, when Okamoto and Golani described this as a new species as Acropoma lacrima in 2017 based on paratypes from the northwest coast of India, but later confirmed it as a junior synonym of A. splendens (Okamoto et al. 2021;Prokofiev 2019) [27,30] . In the Indian EEZ, A. splendens were misidentified as A. japonicum by Balachandran and Nizar in the year 1990 [1] from the specimen caught in the Arabian Sea at the depth 140 m by operating bottom trawl net in the Fishery Oceanographic Research Vessel (FORV), Sagar Sampada (Location: Latitude 11°29'N Longitude 74°30'E). ...
... A. splendens was first discovered in the Gulf of Oman in 1909 as Synagrops splendens by Llyod. In the Arabian Sea, this species has been misreported as Acropoma japonicum by many authors (Fowler 1927;Norman 1939;Kotthaus 1974;Heemstra 1984; Balachandran and Nizar 1990;Carpenter et al. 1997;Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003;Javadzadeh et al. 2012; Psomadakis et al. 2015) [7,24,17,13,1,3,20,14,31] until 2016, when Okamoto and Golani described this as a new species as Acropoma lacrima in 2017 based on paratypes from the northwest coast of India, but later confirmed it as a junior synonym of A. splendens (Okamoto et al. 2021;Prokofiev 2019) [27,30] . In the Indian EEZ, A. splendens were misidentified as A. japonicum by Balachandran and Nizar in the year 1990 [1] from the specimen caught in the Arabian Sea at the depth 140 m by operating bottom trawl net in the Fishery Oceanographic Research Vessel (FORV), Sagar Sampada (Location: Latitude 11°29'N Longitude 74°30'E). ...
... The distribution of A. splendens has been previously reported in the Persian Gulf (Kotthanus 1974; Carpenter et al. 1997, Javadzadeh et al. 2012Eagderi et al. 2019) [17,3,14,5] , Gulf of Oman (Llyod 1909;Norman 1939) [18,24] , Gulf of Aden (Heemstra 1984) [13] , Mumbai coast of the Arabian Sea (Okamoto and Golani 2017; present study) [25] [1,3,20,31,25] , Bay of Bengal (Yennawar et al., 2012) [44] , Myanmar (Psomadakis et al., 2019) [32] , and Andaman Sea off southwestern Thailand (Okamoto et al., 2021) [27] . ...
... Nevertheless, investigations of angel sharks from the southwestern Indian Ocean by S.W. showed that S. africana apparently exhibits a strong variation in general coloration and patterning. Furthermore, due to the known intraspecific variability and ontogenetic changes in angel Squatina africana- Gubanov et al. 1986: 218 (in part) [42]; ?Baissac 1990: 2 [43]; Gubanov 1993: 215-217 (in part) [44]; ?Fricke 1999: 28 (based on checklists by Baissac [43,45]) [46]; ?Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003: S77, S93 (based on Gubanov [44]) [47]; ? Reeve et al. 2011: 7 [48]; Akhilesh et al. 2014: 115 [49]; ?Jawad 2018: 66-67 [50]; Ambily et al. 2018: 312-317 (in part) [51]. ...
Sampling efforts on the Saya de Malha Bank (part of the Mascarene Plateau, western Indian Ocean) unveiled three unusual small juvenile angel shark specimens, that were a much paler color than the only known western Indian Ocean species, Squatina africana Regan, 1908. However, it took many years before further specimens, including adults of both sexes, and tissue samples were collected. The present manuscript contains a redescription of S. africana based on the holotype and additional material, as well as the formal description of the new species of Squatina. All specimens of the new species, hereafter referred to as Squatina leae sp. nov., were collected in the western Indian Ocean off southwestern India and on the Mascarene Plateau at depths of 100–500 m. The new species differs from S. africana in a number of characteristics including its coloration when fresh, smaller size at birth, size at maturity, and adult size, genetic composition, and distribution. Taxonomic characteristics include differences in the morphology of the pectoral skeleton and posterior nasal flap, denticle arrangement and morphology, vertebral counts, trunk width, pectoral–pelvic space, and clasper size. A key to the species of Squatina in the Indian Ocean is provided.
... Zebrias synapturoides has a wider geographic distribution in the Northern Indian Ocean, reported from the Persian/ Arabian Gulf, India and Sri Lanka; elsewhere to the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea (Fischer and Bianchi 1984;Carpenter et al. 1997;Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003;Nair 2011, Munroe et al. 2020Heemstra et al. 2022). This species is hitherto unknown from the Red Sea; the present report constitutes a new distributional record of Zebrias synapturoides for the Red Sea from Al-Qunfudhah. ...
... Zebrias synapturoides is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean and the paucity of its record in the Red Sea could be attributed to the inadequate sampling efforts in the shallow sandy habitats. This is further substantiated by the relatively low species diversity of Soleidae in the Red Sea vis-à-vis the Arab Seas (eight species in five genera vs. 20 species in 10 genera; see Manilo and Bogorodsky (2003); Golani and Bogorodsky (2010); Golani and Fricke (2018). Soleidae needs revisions at all taxonomic levels (Heemstra et al. 2022) and their contribution to the trawl bycatch is largely unknown (Munroe et al. 2020). ...
A single specimen of Indian Zebra Sole, Zebrias synapturoides (Jenkins, 1910) was trawled off Al–Qunfudhah, which is being reported herein as a new record for the Red Sea. This species is characterized by (1) the presence of three bars on head and by the (2) dorsal and anal fins joined to the basal portion of the caudal fin. Zebrias synapturoides is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean and the paucity of its record in the Red Sea could be attributed to the inadequate sampling efforts in the shallow sandy habitats.
... Its present-day water level and ecology of this water body have been influenced by its natural history, particularly during the Communicated by R. Thiel Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the postglacial rebound sea water changes, and by its consequent vicariance events (Sarnthein 1972;Lambeck 1996;Teller et al. 2000;Teimori et al. 2012;Erpenbeck et al. 2020). Due to its unique oceanographic conditions, the Persian Gulf should be regarded as a distinct ecosystem (Carpenter and Board 1997;Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003) and the Oman Sea should be considered as a zoogeographic boundary between the western Indian Ocean and the Indo-Polynesian provinces (Briggs 1974). ...
The family Mullidae represents a hyoid barbel characteristic fish group of the tropical and temperate waters of all major oceans’ ichthyofauna. Despite diverse studies on their morphological characteristics, comparably few molecular investigations have been carried out resulting in several unresolved taxonomic puzzles. This study aimed to assess mitochondrial phylogeny and systematics of several mullid species of the western Indo-Pacific region based on partial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and cytochrome b (Cytb) gene sequences. Phylogenetic analyses show a group of six nominal genera, in two main clades forming a monophyletic lineage. The main subclades within these clades correspond to genera as defined by morphological studies. One clade includes the species of the genus Upeneichthys, and the second clade includes Mullus, Upeneus, Mulloidichthys, Pseudupeneus, and Parupeneus. The most diverse group, Upeneus, consists of two subclades: (i) U. doriae, U. moluccensis, U. subvittatus, U. supravittatus, and U. vittatus and (ii) U. asymmetricus, U. australiae, U. floros, U. heterospinus, U. japonicus, U. lombok, U. margarethae, U. pori, U. spottocaudalis, U. sundaicus, and U. tragula. The range of average K2P genetic distance for COI varied from 0.1% between U. pori and U. guttatus to 25.7% between Ps. grandisquamis and U. floros. The cladogenetic pattern retrieved here almost corresponds to the mullid grouping as defined by osteological studies.
... The genus Rhynchoconger Jordan & Hubbs, 1925 consists of nine valid species belonging to the subfamily Congrinae, of these three species namely, Rhynchoconger flavus (Goode & Bean, 1896), Rhynchoconger gracilior (Ginsburg, 1951) and Rhynchoconger guppyi (Norman, 1925) were distributed in the Western Atlantic (Fricke et al., 2022); Rhynchoconger ectenurus (Jordan & Richardson, 1909) (Kotthaus, 1968;Manilo & Bogorodsky, 2003;Venu, 2013), Rhynchoconger randalli Acharya, Mohanty, Ray, Mishra & Mohapatra, 2022, Rhynchoconger smithi Mohapatra, Ho, Acharya, Ray & Mishra, 2022 and Rhynchoconger squaliceps (Alcock, 1894) were distributed in the Western Pacific and Indian oceans Mohapatra et al., 2022); Rhynchoconger nitens (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) along the Eastern Pacific and Rhynchoconger trewavasae Ben-Tuvia, 1993 along the Red Sea. Among these nine species, only three species were documented from the deep waters viz. ...
A new species of deep‐water conger eel, Rhynchoconger bicoloratus sp. nov., is described herein based on three specimens collected from the deep‐sea trawlers landing at Kalamukku fishing harbour, off Kochi, Arabian Sea, from a depth beyond 200 m. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by having the following combination of characters: head larger than trunk, rictus at posterior margin of pupil, dorsal fin origin slightly before the pectoral fin insertion, eye diameter 1.7–1.9 times in snout length, ethmovomerine teeth patch broader than long with 41–44 recurved pointed teeth in six or seven rows, vomerine teeth patch pentagonal shaped with single tooth on posterior end, 35 pre‐anal vertebrae, body bicoloured, peritoneum and stomach black. Genetically, the new species differs from its congeners with a divergence of 12.9%–20.1% in the mitochondrial COI gene.
... The Arabian Gulf is a small, semi-enclosed, hypersaline gulf surrounded by Iran on the north, the Arabian Peninsula in the west and south with a narrow strait (the Strait of Hormutz) connecting it to the Gulf of Oman in the east. Due to extremes of the environment (high salinity, limited or no seasonality, shallow, warm waters), the Arabian Gulf sustains a species-depauperate biota, with over 700 species of marine fish recorded (Field, 2008;Nassirabady, 2012) compared to over 1200 species in the Gulf of Oman (Randall, 1995;Manilo andBogorodsky, 2003, Field, 2008). Nevertheless, the Arabian Gulf supports about 20 species of seabirds (Jennings, 2010). ...
... Museum specimens have been reported from depths to 22 m (accessed via the FishNet2 portal, www.fishnet2.net, 09-2019) but may occur to 42 metres (Manilo and Bogorodsky 2003). ...
... Mullets having a keel in the mid-dorsal line have usually been classified into three species (Senou et al. 1987): Planiliza carinata (Valenciennes, 1836) in the Red Sea and the eastern Mediterranean, Planiliza klunzingeri (Day, 1888) in the eastern Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, and Planiliza affinis (Günther, 1861) in the coasts of China, Taiwan and Japan. Historically, they were assigned either to the genus liza (e.g., Trewavas & Ingham 1973, Senou et al. 1987, Thomson 1997 or Chelon (e.g., Randall 1995, Chang et al. 1999, Senou 2002, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003. However, they have recently been reassigned to the genus Planiliza based on their placement in molecular phylogenies of Mugilidae and on some morphological characters (Durand et al. 2012a, Durand 2016, Xia et al. 2016. ...
... remarks: Persian Gulf records of Chelon carinatus or liza carinata or Planiliza carinata cited by Eagderi et al. (2019), and Arabian Sea record of Chelon carinata by Manilo & Bogorodsky (2003), most likely refer to Planiliza klunzingeri. Similarly, East Asian reports of liza carinata or Chelon carinatus (e.g., ...
... Reports of Planiliza carinata from Arabian Sea (Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003: S112, as Chelon carinata), the Persian Gulf (Eagderi et al. 2019, as C. carinatus), as well as of P. carinata from Iraq (Ali et al. 2018) most likely refer to P. klunzingeri. (36) Transverse scale rows 11-12 (11) 12-13 (13) 11-13 (12) 12-13 (13) Gill rakers -25-35+44-59 -28-40+51-69 ...
The taxonomic status of the keeled back mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae) has been reinvestigated. Two nominal mugilid species having keeled backs from East Asia: Mugil lauvergnii Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850 and Mugil affinis Günther, 1861 have been re-evaluated through examination of the holotypes and fresh specimens. Comparison of morpho-meristic characters of the holotypes shows that both species are identical. Phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) confirmed morphological data by highlighting presence of a single clade from East Asia. Mugil lauvergnii (=Planiliza lauvergnii) is thus the sole keeled back mullet from East Asia and a senior synonym of Mugil affinis (=Planiliza affinis). The taxonomic status of two other keeled back mullets, Planiliza carinata and P. klunzingeri, is also contentious due to their similar morphology. Meristic and morphometric variation as well as sequence divergence between the two species are limited but phylogenetic analyses delineate well-supported clades consistent with biogeography and currently accepted taxonomy. Planiliza carinata and P. klunzingeri share a recent common ancestor in a Maximum Likelihood tree, with separate distribution ranges while P. lauvergnii formed a paraphyletic lineage. Based on present findings, we suggest maintenance of the taxonomic distinction of P. klunzingeri and P. carinata and discuss its evolutionary significance.
