“…Further, an album of coastal and marine fishes of Bangladesh has been published by Singha et al (2019) from DoF where 232 species of marine fishes were illustrated. Beside these major publications, a number of reports and scientific papers have been published on fish diversity with new distributional records, and also with new species to science from the marine waters of Bangladesh in different years, particularly in the decade 2010 to 2020 (Khan et al 2013, BOBLME 2014, Hossain et al 2015, Roy et al 2015, Baki et al 2017, Shamsunnahar et al 2017, Alam et al 2018, Haque and Hossain 2018, Habib et al 2018a,b, Kabir et al 2018, Saha et al 2018, Habib et al 2019, Hanif 2019, Akash et al 2020, Fuad et al 2020Islam andHabib 2020, Islam et al 2020a,b;Saha et al 2020, Siddik and Hanif 2020, Sarkar et al 2021). Thus, descriptions of various marine fishes of Bangladesh have remained scattered throughout a wide range of scientific publications.…”