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New Record of Bearded Ghoul, Inimicus didactylus (Pallas, 1769) (Scorpaeniformes: Synanceiidae) from the Southeast Coast of India

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The Bearded Ghoul, Inimicus didactylus (Pallas, 1769), a member of stonefish family previously known to be distributed only in the western Pacific from southern Japan, northern Australia and Vanuatu is reported herein from the southeast coast of India. This report constitutes the fifth species of the genus Inimicus to be reported from the Indian waters. The meristic and morphological characters of I. didactylus recorded in the present study is compared with I. sinensis, a species commonly distributed in the east coast of India.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Hiroyuki Motomura, Kagoshima University Museum, Japan and Ronald Fricke, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany for species identification and literature support. The first author thanks Rujan and Kishore Kumar for the help provided for morphometry of specimens.

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  1. Department of Fisheries Resource Management, Dr. M.G.R. Fisheries College and Research Institute, Ponneri, Tamil Nadu, 601 204, India

    Paramasivam Kodeeswaran & Natarajan Jayakumar

  2. Division of Fisheries Science, ICAR–Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 744 105, India

    Jayasimhan Praveenraj

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Kodeeswaran, P., Praveenraj, J. & Jayakumar, N. New Record of Bearded Ghoul, Inimicus didactylus (Pallas, 1769) (Scorpaeniformes: Synanceiidae) from the Southeast Coast of India. Thalassas 36, 539–542 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-020-00228-6

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