Re-assessment of a recent Indian Ocean record of the endemic East Asian species Dendrochirus bellus (Actinopterygii: Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae)

Abstract

A review of a recent record of Dendrochirus bellus (Jordan et Hubbs, 1925) from the Gulf of Mannar, south-eastern India, indicated that the specimens on which the record was based were most likely Dendrochirus brachypterus (Cuvier, 1829), conforming to most diagnostic characters of the latter.

Keywords

• India
• distribution
• identification
• Scorpaenidae