Trachinocephalus myops Bluntnose

• Main Authors: Yennawar, Prasanna, Mohapatra, Anil, Tudu, Prasad Chandra
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aulopiformes; Synodontidae; Trachinocephalus; Trachinocephalus myops; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10913821; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B20633FF83FFCFFCB8EA10FC678048

6. Trachinocephalus myops (Forster, 1801) Bluntnose lizardfish (Figure 7) Material examined : 1 ex, 10.02.12, Mohana, Reg. No. MARC /ZSI/ F2287. Description : Body elongate and tubular. Mouth very oblique; snout short. A series of longitudinal stripes, alternating blue and yellow cover back and sides; belly pale yellow or gold. A large, dark, oblique spot at upper corner of gill cover. Distal parts of dorsal and caudal fins dusky; other fins pale yellowish. Distribution : Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate waters with the exception of the eastern Pacific and the northeast Atlantic north of Cape Blanc, Africa. Remarks : The fish is minor commercial important. Size: 40 cm. Published as part of Yennawar, Prasanna, Mohapatra, Anil & Tudu, Prasad Chandra, 2017, An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal, pp. 4 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1) on page 4, DOI:10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117289, http://zenodo.org/record/10913757