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The paper describes the first ever confirmation of existence of Brachysomophis cirrocheilos Bleeker known as stargazer snake eel from Pakistani water. As ample was collected from the Swatch area of Sindh coast of Pakistan on 6 th January 2016. This document provides a short description with photographs of the sample and distribution.
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... 1) and pectoral fins are well developed (Fig. 2), whereas both upper and lower lip were fringed through a sequence of tiny barbells (cirri) (Fig. 3).Anterior nostrils are like a short tube (Fig. 7) , head pores, inconspicuous, supra-orbital 1+3, infra-orbital 4+3, mandular-preopercular 5+12 (Fig 4 and 6) canine and vomer like teeth on oral cavity (Fig. 5), its dorsal fin is well at the back its pectoral fin beginning and tail regarding half of entire length (Fig. 8). The above morphometric and meristic character of this sample reconcile by Smith and McCosker (1999) and McCosker and Randall (2001), Biswas,et al.(2010) and therefore, it is assigned to the genus BrachsomophisKaup, 1856. ...
