New records of fishes from the seas around India-Part IV

Abstract

In the first three parts of the present series which have appeared in this Journal [6(2) 1964 ; 285-308, 7(1), 1965 ; 108-123 and 7(2), 1965 ; 381-400] 66 species of fishes belonging to 22 genera from the Laccadives have been described as new records from the seas around India. In this paper 20 species belonging to 15 families not hitherto recorded from the Central Indian Ocean are described and figured. Of these eight species are new records for the Indian Ocean.