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EARLY in January 1934, the Zoological Survey of India received for determination an extensive collection of fish from Prof. F. J. Meggitt, of the University College, Rangoon. The major part of the collection was made at Maungmagan, a village on the Tavoy Coast, north-west of Tavoy, Burma. Among the 44 species of fish collected at Maungmagan, there are five forms, Ammodoytes lanceolatus, Le Sauvage, Blennius pholis, Linn., Trachynus draco, Linn., Cottus bubalis, Euphrasen, and Lophius piscatorius, Linn., the range of which is generally believed to be restricted to the Atlantic Ocean, and none of which had previously been recorded from the Indian waters. In passing, it may be mentioned that our specimens were sent to Mr. J. R. Norman of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), who very kindly confirmed our identifications.
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HORA, S., MUKERJI, D. European Species of Fish from the Tavoy Coast, Burma. Nature 137, 152 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137152a0
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