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A new species of the genus <i>Sagitta </i>(Phylum Chaetognatha) from the Agatti <span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN; mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:HI" lang="EN-IN">lagoon (Laccadive Archipelago, Indian Ocean) with comments on endemism</span>

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Title A new species of the genus Sagitta (Phylum Chaetognatha) from the Agatti lagoon (Laccadive Archipelago, Indian Ocean) with comments on endemism
 
Creator Casanova, J.P
Nair, Vijayalakshmi R.
 
Description 169-172
A new chaetognath Sagitta madhupratapi from the Agatti atoll,
Laccadive Archipelago is described. The species belongs to the
"hispida" group. Though collections were made from other atolls the
species was found restricted to the Agatti suggesting that the species is
endemic to this lagoon.It appears that isolated waters of lagoons promote
speciation as this as well as another species dwelling in the area were found
to be new to science. Isolation from surrounding neritic populations of chaetognaths
is probably one of the reasons for endemism.
 
Date 2014-01-15T09:05:57Z
2014-01-15T09:05:57Z
1999-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25694
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.28(2) [June 1999]