Check list of fishes of the Gulf of Mannar ecosystem, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Gulf of Mannar Ecosystem (GOME) covers an area spread over Rameswaram and Kanyakumari for about 19000 km 2 and lies between 78°11'E and 79°15' E longitude and 8°49'N and 9°15'N latitude. The 21 coral islands form a network of habitats for different kinds of fishes and marine organisms.

​An Annotated Checklist of Elasmobranchs Along the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu, Southeast Coast of India

“…Ganesh and Geetha (2017) investigated elasmobranch by-catch diversity and reported 24 species of elasmobranch belonging to 6 orders, 10 families and 11 genera in the same region. Joshi et al (2016) reported 51 species of sharks belonging to 25 genera, 15 families and 7 orders from the Gulf of Mannar. Thilaka et al (2017) reported 45 species of sharks from the same region.…”

First Report Confirming the Occurrence of Jumping Halfbeak Hemiramphus archipelagicus Collette and Parin 1978 (Beloniformes: Hemiramphidae) from the Western Bay of Bengal

“…2). Jones and Kumaran (1980), Manna and Goswami (1985), Sethi et al (2013), Rajan et al 2013, Joshi et al (2016), Kar et al (2017) and Kayalvizhi et al (2018) reported one more species namely H. marginatus from Indian waters but their distribution is mostly restricted to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the western Indian Ocean (Carpenter et al 1997). Such reports from Indian waters are questionable which might have been misidentified with morphologically similar species occurring in the area.…”

Synopsis of global fresh and brackish water occurrences of the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839 (Pisces: Carcharhinidae), with comments on distribution and habitat use

“…The distribution maps of comPaGno (1984,2001) show an absence of the species from the east coast of the Indian subcontinent. However, later records of C. leucas from the east coast of India were provided by raJe et al ( 2002 2009) for the Pulicut Lagoon (see Table 7) and by Joshi et al (2016) for the Gulf of Mannar. Joshi et al (2018) reported C. leucas from India's southwest coast.…”