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Check list of fishes of the Gulf of Mannar ecosystem, Tamil Nadu, India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11164/
http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=2386&bkid=115
 
Title Check list of fishes of the Gulf of
Mannar ecosystem, Tamil Nadu, India
 
Creator Joshi, K K
Sreeram, Miriam Paul
Zacharia, P U
Abdussamad, E M
Varghese, Molly
Habeeb Mohammed, O M M J
Jayabalan, K
Kanthan, K P
Kannan, K
Sreekumar, K M
George, Gimy
Varsha, M S
 
Subject Fish Taxonomy
 
Description Gulf of Mannar Ecosystem (GOME) covers an area spread over
Rameswaram and Kanyakumari for about 19000 km2 and lies between
78°11’E and 79°15’ E longitude and 8°49’N and 9°15’N latitude. The
21 coral islands form a network of habitats for different kinds of fishes
and marine organisms. Fish samples were collected during April 2005
to March 2010 from different centers viz., Vembar, Tharuvaikulam,
Vellapatti, Therespuram, Tuticorin, Alangarathattu, Pazhaykayal,
Punnakayal, Kayalpattinam, Veerapandiapattinam, Thiruchendur and
Manappad of Gulf of Mannar ecosystem. The present check list was
the first attempt to produce a systematic list of fishes found in the Gulf
of Mannar ecosystem. It includes 476 genera and 1182 species in 144
families and 39 orders, of which 628 species have been recorded in
the present study.
 
Publisher Marine Biological Association of India
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11164/1/JMBAI%2058-1-5.pdf
Joshi, K K and Sreeram, Miriam Paul and Zacharia, P U and Abdussamad, E M and Varghese, Molly and Habeeb Mohammed, O M M J and Jayabalan, K and Kanthan, K P and Kannan, K and Sreekumar, K M and George, Gimy and Varsha, M S (2016) Check list of fishes of the Gulf of Mannar ecosystem, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 58 (1). pp. 34-54. ISSN 2321-7898