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An Account on marine wood-boring organisms of offshore waters of Bombay High, India

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

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Title An Account on marine wood-boring organisms of offshore waters of Bombay High, India
 
Creator Wagh, A.B.
Raveendran, T.V.
 
Contributor Natarajan, P.
 
Subject Fouling and Boring
Structures
Offshore
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Boring Organisms
Teredo Indomalaica
Lyrodus Singaporeana
ISW, India, Maharashtra, Bombay
 
Description An incidence of wood-boring organisms in a water column of 75 meters depth, 160 km off the Bombay coast is reported. The destruction of untreated panels of mango wood exposed for periods varying from 1-12 months was caused by eight species of teredinid borers belonging to the genera Lyrodus, Teredo, Teredora and Bankia. It also reports for the first time the occurrence of Teredo navalis from Indian waters and Lyrodus singaporeana and Teredo indomalaica from the west coast of India
 
Date 1995-07-08T10:01:32Z
2017-09-30T01:27:29Z
1995-07-08T10:01:32Z
2017-09-30T01:27:29Z
1987
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Advances in Aquatic Biology and Fisheries: Prof N Balakrishnan Nair Felicitation Volume. Kerala:Kerala Univ.; 1987; 405-412
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/6928
 
Language en
 
Relation NON-SCI
 
Publisher Kerala: Kerala Univ.