Occurrence of Indian Painted Frog Kaloula Taprobanica (Family Microhylidae) At Arnala Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra

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by  Pritesh Nandvikar

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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
4. OCCURRENCE OF INDIAN PAINTED FROG KALOULA TAPROBAN1C
(FAMILY MICROHYLIDAE)ATARNALA BEACH, MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA
Pritesh Nandvikar1-2and Parveen Shaikh13
'ZoologyDepartment, RamnarainRuiaCollege, Mumbai400019, Maharashtra, India.
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On July 16, 2009, while walking near Amala beach distributedbutuncommonspeciesoffroginmanyareas. Itis
(19° 27’ 07.32" N; 72° 44' 54.64" E), Virar, Mumbai, reported from many places in Assam, West Bengal, Orissa,
Maharashtra, we came across a small frog on a bark of Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh,
Casuarina equisetifolia. Based on its coloration and MadhyaPradesh andGujarat(Giri etal. 2001 Daniel 2002;
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morphological features, e.g., fingers enlarged into large and Sivakumar et al. 2003; Daniels 2005; V. Giri pers. comm.).
flatteneddiscs, it was lateridentifiedas Indian PaintedFrog This species is found in rural, agricultural and forest area,
Kaloula taprobanica (BNHS Reg. No. 5250). includingWesternGhatsandarewelladaptedtoliveinhighly
This species belongs to Family Microhylidae. It is a urbanized areas also (Daniels 2005). Interestingly, it is found
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medium-sized(adults<6cm)frogwithsnoutflat,triangular, fromsea-leveltoover 1,000 abovesealevel(Daniels2005).
and balloon-like body with obscure or absent tympanum Accordingtomentionedreferencesthisspecieswasnotreported
(Daniel 2002; Daniels 2005). This is one of the widely from Maharashtrauntil recently,andthusdeserves attention.
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OCCURRENCE OF EPIZOIC CIRRIPEDE, CONCHODERMA VIRGATUM
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(SPENGLER, 1790) ON PENNELLA INSTRUCTA WILSON INFECTED ON SAILFISH
ISTIOPHORUS PLATYPTERUS CAUGHT FROM NORTH-WEST INDIAN EEZ
S. Varghese1’2, V.S. Somvanshi13 and Sijo P. Varghese1'4
'FisherySurveyofIndia, BotawalaChambers, SirP.M. Road, Mumbai400001,Maharashtra, India.
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Introduction Pennella instructa Wilson (Syn. Pennella zeylanica
Indo-PacificSailfishIstiophorusplatypterus(Shawand Kirtisinghe)isacopepodparasiteinfectingmanymarinefishes,
Nodder 1792)belongingtoFamilyIstiophoridaeisaprimarily especially billfish, including swordfish, sailfish and marlin.
oceanic,epipelagicfish inhabitingthetropical andtemperate InIndia,DevarajandBennet(1972)haddescribedthisspecies
waters of Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans. This fish infested on sailfish, /. platypterus (Shaw and Nodder, 1792)
constitutesamajorbycatchcomponentoftunalonglinefishery and collected from the South-east and South-west coasts of
in the Indian waters. The abundance of this species in the India. DuringSeptember2006surveyvoyageofMFVMatsya
north-western Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is Vrushti, longline survey vessel of Fishery Survey of India
evidentfromthefactthatanaveragecatchrateofthisspecies operating from Mumbai Base, seventeen female specimens
in the exploratory longlining was 39.42 kg/1000 hooks, of Pennella instructa Wilson were collected from two
constituting 15% of the total catch (Varghese et al. 2004). sailfishes caught from 18-19 °N and 67-69 °E. All the
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