A New Locality Record of a Freshwater Fish Brachyamblyopus brachysoma Bleeker, 1854 (Family: Gobiidae) from Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Abstract

Present paper is mainly based on the field observation of the species Brachyamblyopus brachysoma Bleeker, 1854, the only Indian species which is very rare in West Bengal. Present observation is the first record from West Bengal. Authors observed a single specimen in the river Kapaleswari at Kundra (22.176̊ N, 87.668̊ E), Total length 17.5 cm. This is the highest recorded length of this species from India. Kundra is a village of Sabong Block under Paschim Medinipur District.