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Water quality and benthic fauna of the Kayamkulam backwaters and Arattupuzha coast along south west coast of India

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Title Water quality and benthic fauna of the Kayamkulam backwaters and Arattupuzha coast along south west coast of India
 
Creator Devi, L Prabha
Natarajan, P
Ammal, G Saraswathy
Azis, P K Abdul
 
Description 264-267
The benthic fauna of the Kayamkulam backwater and adjacent sea composed mainly of foraminiferans, polychaetes, nematodes, amphipods. isopods and bivalves. The population density varied between 900-76000/m(2) in October and 1020-60000/m(2) in May. Foraminiferans were the predominant group in the sea and in the marine zone of the backwater. Polychaetes ranked second in terms of the species composition followed by bivalves. Amphipods were the predominant group in the upper reaches of the backwater.
 
Date 2016-11-17T11:23:49Z
2016-11-17T11:23:49Z
1996-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/37132
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.25(3) [September 1996]