Occurrence of picnic seabream, Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskal, 1775)along Visakhapatnam coast, Andhra Pradesh

The picnic seabream, Acanthopagrus berda (Forsskal, 1775) is a sparid bream, common in Western Indian Ocean, South Africa, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, India, Phuket and Malaysia. There are about 139 species belonging to family sparidae distributed in World Oceans and about 10 species has been reported from Indian waters. The genus Acanthopagrus, now widely recognized as a valid Indo-West Pacific genus was first proposed as a subgenus of Chrysophrys by Peters (1855).