Table 1 in First occurrence report of three rare Serranid fishes from northern part of east coast of India and a new record from West Bengal coast, India

Table 1 Comparison of morphological characters of four groupers collected along West Bengal coast. Cromileptes altivelis (Valencinnes, 1828) EBRC /ZSI/F 12837Cephalopholis sonnerati (Valenciennes, 1828) EBRC /ZSI/F 13618Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) EBRC /ZSI/F 13091Pogonoperca ocellata (Günther, 1859) EBRC /ZSI/F 12836Charactersmm% SL% HLmm% SL% HLmm% SL% HLmm% SL% HLTotal Length559.7280–295107.1251.0Standard Length (SL)490.0230.2–24087.6213.0Body depth at dorsal fin origin242.249.477.4–80.933.6–33.731.135.581.138.1Body depth at anal fin origin237.348.468.9–70.229.3–29.924.528.077.036.2Body width80.516.437.4–34.914.5–16.311.312.931.014.6Length of soft dorsal fin base139.028.454.5–56.723.6–23.714.917.041.219.3Length of Anal fin base78.015.943.6–43.418.1–18.913.815.858.027.2Head Length (HL)177.336.286.2–87.136.3–37.542.949.081.238.1Pectoral Fin length106.621.860.148.2–54.420.9–22.755.9–62.522.525.752.445.321.355.8Pelvic Fin length77.215.843.546.3–53.120.1–22.153.7–61.018.320.942.745.021.155.4Caudal Fin length87.417.849.346.7–51.220.3–21.354.2–58.819.522.345.539.218.448.3Snout length35.57.220.014.8–18.16.4–7.517.2–20.86.47.314.927.312.833.6Inter-orbital length29.26.016.512.5–12.15.1–5.413.9–14.54.85.511.211.25.313.8Post-orbital length119.224.367.249.1–55.121.3–22.957.0–63.323.626.955.043.420.453.4Eye Diameter24.14.913.613.6–14.55.9–6.015.8–16.69.110.421.214.36.717.6Maxilla (upper jaw) length62.312.735.142.4–44.618.4–18.649.2–51.218.120.742.234.116.042.0Mandible (lower jaw) length56.111.431.625.3–27.711.0–11.529.4–31.816.418.738.231.214.638.4Caudal Peduncle length78.916.144.535.7–37.915.5–15.841.4–43.51213.728.037.217.545.8Caudal Peduncle depth66.313.537.430.1–33.313.1–13.934.9–38.29.310.621.730.114.137.1