Abstract
The specific nameBola coitor Hamilton, 1822 represents the type species of the two sciaenid genera,Bola Hamilton, 1822 andWak Lin, 1938. Considerable uncertainty, however, exists regarding the systematic position of this species.
A study of large number of examples ofBola coitor, including typotypes and Day’s (1876) material, made it evident thatcoitor Hamilton should be assigned to the genusJohnius Bloch, 1793. As Hamilton’s (1822) original description of‘B’. coitor is inadequate and subsequent descriptions faulty, a redescription of the species is also given in this paper.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
V. References
Bal, D. V. and Pradhan, L. B.First Progress Report on “Investigations on Fish Eggs and Larvae from Bombay Waters, 1944–45,” Govt. Central Press, Bombay, 1945.
—————Second Progress Report on “Investigations on Fish Eggs and Larvae from Bombay Waters, 1945–46,” Govt. Central Press, Bombay, 1945.
Blyth, E. D. “Report of some fishes received chiefly from Sitang River and tributary streams, Tenasserior Provinces,”J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 1860,29, 139–42.
Cantor, T. “Catalogue of Malayan fishes,” Ibid., 1849,18 (Pt. II), 1047–48.
Chu, Y. T., Lo, Y. L. and Wu, H. L. “A Study on the Classification of Sciaenoid Fishes of China, with Description of New Genera and Species, Shanghai Fisheries Institute, 1963, pp. 27–33.
Cuvier, G. In Cuvier and Valenciennes’Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Paris, 1830,5, 116–19.
David, A. “Studies on fish and fisheries of the Godavary and the Krishna river systems—Part I,”Proc. nat. Acad. Sci. India (B), 1963,33 (Pt, II), 263–86.
Day, F. ..The Fishes of India, London, 1876, Pt.II., 187–88.
Fowler, H. W. “Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions,”Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 1933,12 (100) 370–406.
Günther, A.“Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum, London, 1860,2, 301.
Ganguly, D. N. and Mookerji, S. “On the structure and development of ctenoid scales in certain Indian fishes,”Proc. nat. Inst. Sci., India, 1947,13, 331–37.
Hamilton, F.An Account of the Fishes Found in the River Ganges and its Branches, Edinburgh and London, 1822, vii + 405 pp., Atlas of 39 pls.
Jacob, P. K. “Sciaenids of the west coast of Madras Province,”J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc., 1948,48 (1), 118–24.
Jordan, D. S. ..The Genera of Fishes, California, 1917, Part I, 114.
Karamchandani, S. J. and Motwani, M. P. “On the larval development ofPseudosciaena coitor (Hamilton)”,J. zool. Soc. India, 1954,6 (1), 71–79.
Lin, S. Y. “Further notes on sciaenid fishes of China,”Lingnan Sci. J., 1938,17 (3), 378–81.
Mookerji, S. “A typical scale ofSciaena coitor (Hamilton),”Nature, 1948,(161), 64–65.
Shaw, G. E. and Shabbeare, E. O. “The Fishes of Northern Bengal,”J. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 1937,3 (1), 115–16.
Shetty, H. P. C., Chakrabarty, R. D. and Bhattacharya, C. G. “Report on the fisheries of the Mahanadi estuarine system, Orissa,”Bull. cent. Inl. Fish. Res. Inst. Barrackpore, 1965,5, 81 (mimeo).
Srivastava, P. N... “Morphology and histology of the air-bladder of certain sciaenoid fishes with the description of a new type of ear-air-bladder connection,”Proc. nat. Inst. Sci. India, 1955,21 (2), 74–78.
Srivastava, G. J.Fishes of the Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, 1968, 103–32.
Trewavas, E. “The sciaenid fishes with a single mental barbel,”Copeia, 1964 (1), 107–17.
----- “Review of Chu, Lo and Wu’s (1963) article,”Ibid., 1965, (2), 253–54.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
Communicated by Dr. B. S. Bhimachar,f.a.sc.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Talwar, P.K., Shetty, H.P.C. On the generic relationship ofBola coitor Hamilton, 1822 (Pisces: Sciaenidae), with a redescription of the species. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 74, 74–80 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050383
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050383