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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. It is situated in the middle of Indian Ocean. Because of being an island, Sri Lanka has many endemic freshwater fauna, as well as thousands of marine and brackish water fauna. [1] Fishing is the way of life of most of coastal community.
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This is a timeline of Sri Lankan history, comprising important & territorial changes and political & economic events in Sri Lanka and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sri Lanka .
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Apolemichthys xanthurus was first formally described in 1950 as Holacanthus xanthotis by the British naturalist Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836) with the type locality given as Sri Lanka. [5] Its specific name xanthurus means "yellow tail" and refers to the yellow tail which also gives this species one of its common names. [ 6 ]
The yellowtail scad is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific region. [4] In the Indian Ocean, the species is known from as far south as South Africa, distributed north along the east African coast including Madagascar, and further north to the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. [10]
Portuguese arrived in Sri Lanka in 1505 and established trade relations with kingdom of Kotte.They erected a fortress in Colombo and garrisoned it. [citation needed]In 1521, King Vijayabahu VI's three sons mutinied against their father.