First record of two cardinal fishes (Kurtiformes: Apogonidae) and a gobioid fish (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from the Odisha coast, India

Two cardinal fish species, Apogonichthyoides sialis (Jordan & Thompson 1914) and Oestorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède 1802, and one oxudercid goby, Trypauchenichthys sumatrensis Hardenberg 1931 are reported herein for the first time from the coastal waters of Odisha, India. This paper deals with the diagnostic characters and distributional information of all these three species to document their occurrence for the first time from Odisha state. Confusion in identity of these two apogonids along Odisha coast is cleared, while report of this oxudercid goby forms it’s only the second record from India.