This Bulletin, a catalogue of fishes, is in continuation of the previous three in the
series dealing with the biological specimens kept in the Reference Collections of the
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mandapam Camp. The present catalogue
lists 569 species of fishes (excluding those from the Laccadives which appeared in
Bulletin No. 8); 35 of them are under 9 families of Elasmobranchii and the rest under
131 families of Teleostomi. Most of them are marine, the fresh water fishes in the
collections forming only a very small proportion. There is adequate representation of
the major exploited species supporting fisheries of coastal waters. Since the main
objective has been the collection of commercially important fish species by the research
workers engaged in investigations on specified groups, the material listed does not
adequately represent the marine fish fauna around India, which has on record very
many more than the number of species listed here.
The collections have been made by a number of scientific workers of this
Institute from the time of its inception, but the task of cataloguing the material has been
entrusted to Mr. V. Sriramachandra Murty, who I am glad to say has accomplished
this work in a very satisfactory manner. To him and to my other colleagues of thi
