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Lutjanus quinquelineatus   (Bloch,  1790) (Fish)
Organism information awaits expert curation

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Description
Size: 20-38 cm.

Color: Generally yellow including fins with 5 blue stripes on side and a large blackish blotch (sometimes faint) on back below soft dorsal fin.

A small, robust snapper with a prominent notch on rear edge of preopercle. Vomerine teeth in a narrow ^ shaped patch, without a median projection; gillrakers on first gill arch 7+1+11 or 12 (including rudiments). Dorsal fin with 10 spines and 13 or 14 soft rays; anal fin with 3 spines and 8 soft rays; caudal fin emarginate; lateral line scales 48 to 50; longitudinal scale rows ascending obliquely above lateral line and running horizontally below it; predorsal scales beginning at midinterorbital space; preopercle with 9 or 10 scale rows, including those on lower border.

Age: 31 years

Biogeography


• South INDIA
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Cuddalore Coast INDIA (Record: 08/2008, 10/2008-12/2008)
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands INDIA

Literature Source(s)

• Rao, DV; Devi, K and Rajan, PT (2000) An account of ichthyofauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bay of Bengal Occasional paper no 178 Records of the Zoological Survey of India ZSI, Calcutta 1-434 Available at - NCL, Pune

• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Available at - http://www.unep-wcmc.org/

• James, C; O'Farrell, S; Hamylton, S; Ingwersen, C and Walker, R The coral reef resources of Mu Ko Surin national park, Thailand Coral Cay Conservation Available at - www.coralcay.org

• Ohman, M; Rajasuriya, A and Olafsson, E (1997) Reef fish assemblages in north western Sri Lanka: Distribution patterns and influences of fishing practises Enviornmental Biology of Fishes Kluwer Academic Publishers 49 45-61

• Rajan, PT (2003) A field guide to marine food fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands ZSI, 234/4, AJC Bose Road, 2nd MSO Building, (13th Floor), Nizam Palace, Kolkata-700 020 260 pp Available at - NCL, Pune

• (1994) The effect of artificial reef installation on the biosocioeconomics of small scale fisheries in Ranong province, Thailand Bay of Bengal Programme Available at - NCL, Pune

• Allen, GR and Mohammed, A (2003) Coral Reef Fishes of Indonesia Zoological Studies 42(1) 26299 Available at - Digital Information Resource Center, Pune.

• Froese, R and Pauly, D (2000) Fishbase 2000: Concepts, design and data sources ICLARM 344 pp Available at - http://www.fishbase.org

• Tun, MT (2001) Marine fishes of Myanmar (pelagic and demersal) U Than Tun, Director-General, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Myanmar 276 pp Available at - NIO, Goa

• Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (2009) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available at - http://www.marinespecies.org

• Fischer, W and Bianchi, G (Eds.) (1984) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Indian Ocean (Fishing Area 51) FAO, Rome 3 Available at - http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/ad468e/ad468e00.HTM#Contents

• Lakshmi, A and Sundaramanickam, A (2011) Biodiversity of reef ichthyofauna in Cuddalore coast, southeast coast of India International Journal of Environmental Sciences Integrated Publishing Association 1(7) 1616-1621 Available at - ipublishing.co.in/jesvol1no12010/EIJES2108.pdf

• Talwar, PK (1990) Fishes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A synoptic survey Journal of the Andaman Science Association Andaman Science Association, Port Blair 6(2) 71-102 Available at - NIO,Goa

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