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The present paper reports one reef associated fish species of the family Pomacanthidae, Apolemichthys xanthurus (Bennett, 1833) for the first time from the Andhra Pradesh coast. The specimen was collected from Kumbhabhishekam fishing harbour, Kakinada. Current manuscript deals with species description, morphometric and meristic characters to record its occurrence along Andhra Pradesh coast.
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Authors are grateful to Dr. Kailash Chandra, Director, Zoological Survey of India, for providing necessary facilities for the work. We thank Dr. Basudev Tripathy, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata for his generous support as survey team leader and other survey party members for their co-operations.
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Roy, S., Mohanty, S.R. & Mohapatra, A. First Report of Reef associated fish, Apolemichthys xanthurus (Pomacanthidae) from Andhra Pradesh coast, India. J. Ichthyol. 59, 823–826 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945219050138
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