New records of fishes from the seas around India—part VII

Abstract

The present account is the seventh part of the series (Parts I to VI appeared in Vols. 6(2): 285-308,1965 ; 7(1): 108-123,1965 ; 7(2): 381-400, 1965 ; 8(1): 163-180, 1966 ; 9(1): 1-12, 1967 ; and 10(2): 321-331, 1970 respectively of the same journal) giving information on the new records of fishes from the seas around India. All species recorded herein were collected from the Laccadive Archipelago. In the previous six parts 111 species belonging to 40 families were recorded and in this paper 13 species not known hitherto from the Central Indian Ocean belonging to eleven families are described briefly and figured. Some of these are new records for the entire Indian Ocean. The distribution given for the different species relates to the previous records.