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Some Polychaetous annelids from the Andaman waters

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Title Some Polychaetous annelids from the Andaman waters
 
Creator Tampi, P R S
Rengarajan, K
 
Subject Marine Biodiversity
 
Description The Andaman group of islands in the Bay of Bengal is well known for its rich marine
invertebrate fauna. In future years, it is possible that those interested in marine
zoology are attracted largely to these less exploited regions for purposes of general
collections. The need for an authenticated faunistic list, therefore, cannot be overemphasised.
At present, information on specific animal groups of this region in a
consolidated form is available only for fish or molluscs. More often such
information is found scattered in the descriptive catalogues of the Indian Museum.
The polychaetes from Andamans available in the Indian Museum collections
have been described by Fauvel (1932) and subsequently incorporated in the Fauna
of India series by the same author (1953). However, 43 species of polychaetes have
been listed in the following account out of which nearly half of them have not been
known previously from the Andamans. Even out of these, two are new records for
the Indian waters. The occurrence of the genus Arenicola in this part of the tropical
belt, as already communicated by us in detail (1963), is of special significance because,
excepting along the shores of Bombay, this is the only other record of this genus in
the Indian waters. In the present account of the various species of polychaetes
some figures with essential details of the setae etc. are included together with brief
descriptions. Similarly, a fairly complete Ust of the latest synonyms are also
furnished.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1964
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1007/1/Article_10.pdf
Tampi, P R S and Rengarajan, K (1964) Some Polychaetous annelids from the Andaman waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 6 (1). pp. 98-123.