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Report on one caryophylliid and two dendrophylliid corals in Indian water from Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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Title Report on one caryophylliid and two dendrophylliid corals in Indian water from Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 
Creator Mondal, Tamal
Raghunathan, C
Venkataraman, K
 
Subject New record of Azooxanthallate
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 
Description 538-541
Diversity of
Scleractinian of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
has been showing a wide range of species composition of zooxanthallate corals. Thirteen species of azooxanthallete corals
belonging to two families have been reported so far from these islands. Paracyathus caeruleus Duncan,
1889 belonging to family
Caryophylliidae, Balanophyllia merguiensis Duncan, 1889 and Balanophyllia
vanderhorsti Cairns, 2001 belong to
Dendrophylliidae family have been identified and reported as new record to
Indian water from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Detailed taxonomic description of these three new
records of azooxanthallate corals is discussed this paper.
 
Date 2014-04-23T10:55:06Z
2014-04-23T10:55:06Z
2014-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/28659
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(4) [April 2014]