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First distributional record of an Indo-Pacific porcupine puffer fish Diodon holocanthus (Diodontidae) from the Gopalpur coast, Bay of Bengal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2015

Debasish Mahapatro ,
Subrat Naik ,
Durga Prasad Behera ,
Rajani Kanta Mishra  and
Sudarshan Panda
Debasish Mahapatro
Affiliation:
Post-Graduate Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur, Odisha, India
Subrat Naik
Affiliation:
Post-Graduate Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur, Odisha, India
Durga Prasad Behera
Affiliation:
Post-Graduate Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Brahmapur, Odisha, India
Rajani Kanta Mishra*
Affiliation:
National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Headland Sada, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, India
Sudarshan Panda
Affiliation:
NandanKanan Zoological Park, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: R.K. Mishra, National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), MoES, Goa, India email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The occurrence of the Indo-Pacific porcupine puffer fish Diodon holocanthus (Linnaeus, 1758) was recorded on 17 November 2013 on the Gopalpur coast of the Ganjam district, Odisha, as the first distributional record of this species from the east coast of India. Recordings appeared to increase after the event of the super cyclone ‘Phailin’, which occurred during 12 October 2013. Since then, many incidents of bycatch were observed from the Gopalpur coast. This poisonous porcupine puffer posed a subsequent threat to local anglers by damaging their fishing nets and by reducing the catch of commercially important fishes. However, a lack of substantial information regarding this puffer from the Gopalpur coast makes it difficult to correlate the facts.

Keywords

porcupine pufferfirst distributional recordGopalpur coast
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e7
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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