First report of the fish family Pomacentridae (Damsel fishes) from Sunderban biosphere reserve, India

Abstract

Sundarban Biosphere Reserve is the largest single strand mangrove forest in the world and houses 350 species of fishes. The present work reports the presence of Indo-Pacific Sergeant fish (Family Pomacentridae) Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) from the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal. This is the first report of this family and species from the northern Bay of Bengal region. The species was confirmed through a single specimen collected from Lothian Island in the southern side of Sundarban and the same was compared with a specimen collected from the Arabian Sea.