Checklist of Sand Perches (Pinguipedidae) in Indian Waters with a New Record of Parapercis millepunctata (Gunther 1860) from Lakshadweep, India

The genus Parapercis Bleeker (1863) is widely reported, with three recent new records from Indian waters. During the biodiversity assessment surveys, Black dotted sand perch, Parapercis millepunctata (Gunther 1860), is collected from the outer reef slope of Kavaratti Island, Lakshadweep, India. The present record forms the report from the west coast of India, with voucher specimen and abridges the gap in the continuous distribution of P. millepunctata, from Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east through the east coast of India and the Maldives to Mauritius in the West, in the Indian Ocean, by providing an intermediary occurrence in Lakshadweep. An annotated checklist of fourteen species reported from Indian waters is provided, with a detailed account of the distribution and comments on earlier reports.