Part 1: An annotated checklist of the deep demersal fishes of the Maldive Islands. Part 2: New records of fishes from the Maldive Islands,with notes on other species

PART 1: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE DEEP DEMERSAL FISHES OF THE MALDIVE ISLANDS

Adam, M.Shiham, Nigel R. Merrett & R. Charles Anderson (1997).

An annotated checklist of the deep demersal fishes of the Maldive Islands. Icthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, No. 67 (Part 1). 1-19 pp.

We report here information on the occurrence of the deep demersal fish species known to date from the Maldivian Exclusive Economic Zone below a depth of 180 m. Collections of Maldivian deep demersal fishes are held by The Natural History Museum, London (NHM); the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu; the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; the Marine Research Section, Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, Malé, Republic of Maldives; the South African Museum, Cape Town; and the Zoological Survey of India, at the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Specimens from all of these institutions have been studied by the authors. In addition, the authors carried out sampling of the slope shark fishery during March - April 1996, which resulted in a significant new collection of shark material for the NHM. A total of 100 deep demersal species are reported here which includes 37 new records for the Maldives. The six most speciose families are the Macrouridae (10 species), Congridae (5), Lutjanidae (5), Squalidae (4), Ogocephalidae (4) and Halosauridae (4).

PART 2: NEW RECORDS OF FISHES FROM THE MALDIVE ISLANDS, WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPECIES

Anderson, R. Charles, John E. Randall and Rudie H. Kuiter (1998). New records of fishes from the Maldive Islands, with notes on other species. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith institute of Ichthyology , No. 67, Part 2: 20-32.

Seventy-eight fish species are recorded from the Maldives for the first time. A further 30, which have been recorded in the literature but not included in previous reviews of Maldavian fishes, are listed. The total known shore and epipelagic fish fauna of the Maldives now stands at 1007 species. The total known demersal and epipelagic fish fauna is raised to 1090.