Cromileptes altivelis (Valencinnes, 1828)

Ray, Dipanjan, Roy, Sanmitra & Mohapatra, Anil, 2023, First occurrence report of three rare Serranid fishes from northern part of east coast of India and a new record from West Bengal coast, India, Species (e 10 s 1010) 24 (73), pp. 1-8 : 2-3

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e10s1010
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA145B33-0B4A-FF88-843A-F90A36D35D57
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cromileptes altivelis (Valencinnes, 1828)
status

Treatment

Cromileptes altivelis (Valencinnes, 1828) View in CoL

Humpback Grouper or Panther Fish

Material examined

EBRC /ZSI/F 12837, 01 ex., 490 mm SL, Digha fish landing centre, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, Ray and party, 28/iii/2018 .

Diagnostic characters

D: X+19; A: III+10; P: 16; V: I+5; C: 17; GR: 11; LL: 61. Medium size grouper with quite compressed and deep body; highly concave dorsal profile of head followed by straight portion up to posterior part of eyes and after that steeply rises to dorsal fin origin, upper part of snout flat. Mouth oblique, lower jaw larger than upper jaw; villiform teeth present on jaws in bands. Eyes small, preorbital narrow; preopercular angle serrated and operculum with two flat spines. A vertical slit present on posterior nostril. Dorsal fin started over the opercle, caudal and pectoral fin rounded ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 ).

Colour

Body light whitish brown with randomly scattered round black spots on head, body and fins

Distribution

Eastern Indian Ocean , Western Pacific: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Andaman Sea and Indonesia east to Fiji, North to Southern Japan, Australia and Hawaiian ( Froese and Pauly, 2022). From Indian coast this species is reported from Andaman and Nicobar Island ( Day, 1875; Rao et al., 2000; Rajan et al., 2017), Tamil Nadu ( Ramesh et al., 2008) and Kerala ( Fischer & Bianchi, 1984; Bijukumar and Raghavan, 2015). Present study reports this species first time from northern part of east coast of India as well as West Bengal.