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Temporal variation in macroinvertebrates associated with intertidal sponge <i>Ircinia fusca </i>(Carter 1880) from Ratnagiri, West coast, India.

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Title Temporal variation in macroinvertebrates associated with intertidal sponge Ircinia fusca (Carter 1880) from Ratnagiri, West coast, India.
 
Creator Sivadas, Sanitha K
Redij, Ajay
Sagare, Prashanth
Thakur, Narsinh
Ingole, Baban S
 
Subject Ircinia fusca
Ophiactis savignyi
Macroinvertebrates
Seasonality
Tropical
Rocky shore
West coast, India
 
Description 927-932
Temporal variation of macrofauna associated with a
marine sponge, Ircinia fusca was studied from a tropical rocky shore
along the West coast of India.
Triplicate sponge samples (~100 g) were collected from January to December 2010
from Bhagwati Bandar area, Ratnagiri. A total of 22 macrofaunal taxa were found
to be associated with the sponge. The community was dominated (≥80%) by the juvenile ophiuroid, Ophiactis savignyi.
Syllis sp., Sipuncula and Bivalvia were the other dominant taxa. Presence
of O. savignyi juveniles during most of the time in the year indicates a
major recruitment in March and minor recruitment during rest of the year.
Present study suggest that the O. savignyi utilize the surface area of
sponge as a perfect settling and recruiting ground. It infers that the sponge Ircinia
fusca is used as a breeding ground by the brittle star, Ophiactis
savignyi.
 
Date 2016-06-23T15:30:47Z
2016-06-23T15:30:47Z
2014-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/28962
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(6) [June 2014]