Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Mary, S. Nithya, Ravitchandirane, V. & Gunalan, B., 2021, Checklist of order Tetraodontiformes (Actinopterygii) from Puducherry Coasts, Southeast Coast of India with Nine New Records, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (3), pp. 393-404 : 398

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i3/2021/155960

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13187055

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scientific name

Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801
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Lagocephalus lunaris Bloch & Schneider, 1801 View in CoL ( Figure 2K View Figure 2 )

Material examined: India: Puducherry, Pillaichavadi fish landing centre, (12°0’31”, 79°51’ 31” NE 4892), 23.i.2020, 6 exs., leg. Nithya Mary [ MBRC /ZSI/F- 2428] .

Common Name: Lunar tail puffer, Green Rough-backed Puffer, Moontail Puffer, Spiny back Toadfish. Habitat: Marine-Demersal. Diet Pattern: Benthic Invertebrates.

Distribution: India: Puducherry, Andaman ( Rao, 2003), West Bengal ( Mahabatra & Lakra, 2015), Odisha ( Pati et al., 2018), Tamil Nadu ( Gopalakrishnan et al., 2012), Kerala ( Kumar & Raghavan, 2015). Elsewhere: Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Japan to Australia ( Randall, 1995).

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