PTERYGOTRIGLA INTERMEDICA 

• The new species, commonly known as gurnards or sea-robins, belongs to the family Triglidae. Named Pterygotrigla intermedica, it has characters quite similar to species like Pterygotrigla hemisticta 
• It is the fourth species of Pterygotrigla genus reported in India so far, he said, and there are a total 178 species of the Triglidae family worldwide
• The specimens of this fish were found to be very distinct from other gurnad species in various aspects such as snout length, shape of the internuchal space and size of the cleithral spine
• A distinct pectoral-fin with black membranes on the inner surface, white posterior margin and three small white spots basally in fin, each ray creamy white on the new species
• It had a combination of characters like a long opercular spine and a very short cleithral spine; lateral-line,gill rakers on upper limb and 12–13 on lower limb of first gill arch and  a large black blotch between the 4th and 6th spines of the first dorsal fin

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