Descriptors of a New Morphotype of One Stripe Spiny Eel, Macrognathus aral(Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Family: Mastacembelidae
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S KUMARI
ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 120 India
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U K Sarkar
ICAR-CIFRI, Barrackpore
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H S SWAIN
ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 120 India
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S BHATTACHARYA
ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 120 India
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B K DAS
ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 120 India
Keywords:
Mastacembelidae, ocelli variant, ornamental fish, Gangetic wetlandsAbstract
The new ocelli variant of Macrognathus aral (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) under Mastacembelidae family was recorded from Gangetic Wetlands of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. The new variant can be considered as a potential ornamental fish apart from high valued food fish, due its more number of ocelli in both dorsal and anal fin base of the body surface, which comparable to other commercially important M. aral.
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