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Ecology of Intertidal Meiofauna of the Kakinada Bay (Gautami-Godavari Estuarine System), East Coast of India

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Title Ecology of Intertidal Meiofauna of the Kakinada Bay (Gautami-Godavari Estuarine System), East Coast of India
 
Creator Kondalarao, B
Ramanamurty, K V
 
Description 40-47
The survey of intertidal meiofauna in the Kakinada Bay yielded 13 groups and 22 species of harpacticoid copepods (18 genera and 8 families). The meiofauna ranged between 30.2 and 5924 no. (10 cm2)-1 with relatively high densities in a mangrove biotope. The distribution of meiofauna is discussed in relation to the prevailing environmental parameters. Spatially high diversity in harpacticoid copepods was recorded in silt-free fine sand sediments, while seasonally the diversity was low during flood period. Two harpacticoid copepod communities, namely, (1) a mangrove, detritic, clayey-silt copepod assemblage characterized by Pseudostenhelia secunda and Stenhelia (Delavalia) longifurca and (2) a coastal silt-free fine sand copepod assemblage characterized by Amphiascoides sp. and Hastigerella sp. have been identified
 
Date 2016-12-09T12:56:16Z
2016-12-09T12:56:16Z
1988-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/38446
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.17(1) [March 1988]