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Distribution & Seasonal Variation of Benthic Fauna of the Veli Lake, Southwest Coast of India

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Title Distribution & Seasonal Variation of Benthic Fauna of the Veli Lake, Southwest Coast of India
 
Creator Murugan, T
Divakaran, O
Nair, N Balakrishnan
Padmanabhan, K G
 
Description 184-188
Bottom water salinity, temperature and oxygen ranged from 0.2-4.8%, 26.3-32.2° C and 2.2-4.1 ml/litre respectively in Veli Lake (08° 28'N lat. 76° 57'E long.), a small lagoon on the southwest coast of India with periodic connection (for a few days in an year) with the Arabian Sea. The major faunal components were crustaceans, pelecypods, and polychaetes. Turbellarians, oligochaetes, nematodes, insect larvae, and fishes were also present in lesser quantities. Biomass values ranged from 5.2-9.38 g/m2 at st A (near barmouth with sandy substratum) and 74-3600 g/m2 at st B (1 km away from barmouth with sand-silt-clay substratum), the bulk of the biomass being constituted by bivalves. Population density varied between 2470 and 55830/m2 at st A and 980 and 9430/m2 at st B.
 
Date 2016-12-27T06:57:04Z
2016-12-27T06:57:04Z
1980-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/39240
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.09(3) [September 1980]