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Phenotypic plasticity of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Cycloseris somervillei </i>(Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

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Title Phenotypic plasticity of Cycloseris somervillei (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in Andaman & Nicobar Islands
 
Creator mondal, Tamal
Raghunathan, C.
Venkataraman, K.
 
Subject Mushroom coral
Cycloseris somervillei
Temperature
Rainfall
Depth
Morphological variation
 
Description 611-616
Fringing reefs of Andaman & Nicobar
group of islands harbor 45 species of mushroom corals species up to the depth
of 30 m. An individual of Cycloseris
somervillei (Gardiner, 1909) was sampled from five study areas. Seven
different morphological characters of each specimen of the target species were
measured. Those characters were differed significantly among the specimens of
study sites. Environmental parameter viz. temperature and rainfall was also
measured to make a correlation between morphological differences and environmental
factors. Depth plays a crucial role in the alteration of structural
conformation. Underwater visibility also has an impact on the structural
variation of the same species at different sites. This paper deals with the
morphological variation of a species of mushroom coral i. e. Cycloseris somervillei in response to the
environmental clues.
 
Date 2013-12-13T12:12:11Z
2013-12-13T12:12:11Z
2013-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/24778
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.42(5) [September 2013]