An updated inventory of new records of coastal macrofauna along Goa, west coast of India

Abstract

An assessment of demersal macrofauna for 7 years (2005-2011) through continuous survey (250 trawls, 4 beach seines) with total effort of 424 hours along the bay estuarine and nearshore waters of Goa, yielded 84 new records for the region. Among these, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Charybdis </i>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Charybdis</i>)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> goaensis</i> was new to science. In addition, two species (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Thysanophrys armata </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Callionymus sublaevis</i>) were found to be first records for the Indian waters, seven were new to the West coast of India and 74 others were new reports for this region.