Journal of Biological Sciences 1727-3048 1812-5719 Asian Network for Scientific Information 10.3923/jbs.2001.169.170 Ajazuddin Syed Ahmed Muzammil 3 2001 1 3 This paper deals with the systematic study of three species of fishes collected by otter-trawling, beam trawling and gill-netting which are new to the coastal waters of Pakistan. The three species are Pisodonophis boro (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822), Muraenesox bagio (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822) and Siderea picta (Ahl, 1789). The occurrence, diagnosis, colour and geographical distribution of three species are described in this paper.

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