Butis gymnopomus ( Bleeker, 1853 )

Batuwita, Sudesh, Udugampala, Sampath & Edirisinghe, Udeni, 2016, First record of Butis gymnopomus (Eleotridae) in Sri Lankan waters, Cybium 40 (3), pp. 252-254 : 252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2016-403-009

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Felipe

scientific name

Butis gymnopomus ( Bleeker, 1853 )
status

 

Butis gymnopomus ( Bleeker, 1853) View in CoL

(Figs 1-3)

report B. koilomatodon View in CoL in the south coast of Sri Lanka. Most subsequent authors reported Butis butis View in CoL from various parts of the island, but these reports were somewhat doubtful ( Goonatilake, 2007; De Silva et al., 2015).

During our survey to evaluate the diversity of brackish water fishes of Sri Lanka, we discovered another Butis species, B. gymnopomus View in CoL , which is new to Sri Lankan waters and the aim of this note.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The specimens studied were deposited in the collection of Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka ( WHT), and later in the National Museum, Colombo ( NMSL). (1) Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. [udenied@gmail.com]

(2) The Society for the Biodiversity Conservation, Sri Lanka. [sdudugampala@gmail.com]

NMSL

National Museum of Sri Lanka

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Eleotridae

Genus

Butis

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