| occurence | native | ||
| importance | highly commercial | Ref. | Ramamurthy, S., 1967 |
| aquaculture | never/rarely | Ref. | |
| regulations | no regulations | Ref. | |
| freshwater | No | ||
| brackish | No | ||
| saltwater | Yes | ||
| live export | |||
| bait | No | ||
| game/sport | No | ||
| abundance | Ref. | ||
| comments | Known to be of major importance all along the west coast of India: Kutch (Ref. 158), Bombay (Ref. 180), Karwar (Ref. 239) and Travancore in present Kerala state (Ref. 240), where the species is fished on a very large scale in the littoral regions. C: Refs. 8, 75620, 105752, 116140, 121483. | ||
| C = country distribution; M = map distribution; O = occurrence data; R = regional distribution | |||
| States/Provinces | Andhra Pradesh (native), Goa (native), Gujarat (native), Karnataka (native), Kerala (native), Maharashtra (native), Tamil Nadu (native), West Bengal (native) | ||
| States/Provinces Complete? | Yes | ||
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| country information | https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html | ||