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Quantitative distribution of meiobenthos in the Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar Coast, north-east Andaman Sea

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Title Quantitative distribution of meiobenthos in the Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar Coast, north-east Andaman Sea
 
Creator Ansari, Z. A.
Mehta, Pratik
Furtado, Ramila
Aung, Cherry
Pandiyarajan, R. S.
 
Subject Meiofauna
Quantitative distribution
Martaban Bay
Myanmar coast
 
Description 189-197
Quantitative
distribution of meiofauna in the depth range 20 to 1000 m of the Gulf of
Martaban, Andaman
Sea was studied from 46
stations during a synaptic survey carried out in April-May 2002 of ORV Sagar
Kanya Cruise SK175. Fauna was dominated by three taxa: free living nematodes
(80%) benthic copepods (5.9%) and foraminiferans (2.8%). Other groups together
contributed more than copepods in total abundance. Total density ranged between
40 and 612/10 cm2 and dry weight biomass from 0.21 to 0.428 mg/10 cm2
in different sediment type and depth zone. Numerical abundance of meiofauna was
high in fine silty clay and low in sandy bottom. Formation of three main
clusters suggests the influence of dominant sediment texture of clayey sand
sand silt clay, silty-clay clayey-silt, and sandy substratum. Fauna was
contagiously distributed except at few stations where the distribution was
regular.

Meiofauna
of the present study were similar to those of Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal and
the density changes appears to be related to hydrographic condition and
sediment characteristics of the region.
 
Date 2014-03-03T06:56:02Z
2014-03-03T06:56:02Z
2014-02
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/27275
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(2) [February 2014]