Abstract
A single specimen of the Sharptail Mola Masturus lanceolatus (Lienard, 1840) (total length 1.39m) was collected from a commercial trawler operated from Visakhapatnam at a depth range of 150–300 m, east coast of India on 12 April 2016. It was recorded for the first time in Visakhapatnam. A detailed description, morphometric and meristic characters of the species are provided in this paper
Highlights
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Though this species was initially described from Indian waters, where there have been reports by Kulkarnl (1953), Devaraj et al (1976), Arumugam et al (1994), Badrudeen (1995), Senthilkumar (2001), and Das et al (2012) from Parangipettai coast, M. lanceolatus is considered rare on the Indian coast (Nair et al 2013)
Records of Cigaritis zhengweilie Huang, 1998 (Lepidoptera: Theclinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India and southeastern Tibet, China, and a note on Cigaritis elwesi (Evans, [1925]) -- Purnendu Roy, Pp. 9568–9573
Summary
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