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Distribution and affinities of the sponge fauna of the Indian region

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Title Distribution and affinities of the sponge fauna of the Indian region
 
Creator Thomas, P A
 
Subject Sponges
 
Description The 'Indian Region' as defined here covers an area bounded by Long 60°E and 100GE with its southern
limit fixed at Lat. 10°S The general distribution of 481 species of sponges of the Indian Region, in widely
separated zoogerographic areas such as the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Australian region,
Pacific Ocean, the Antaractic and Arctic Oceans is discussed and faunistic inter-relationship of the above
regions is assessed. Studies revealed that 35.4 % of the Indian Region's Demospongean species are common
to the Australian region, 21.1 % to Pacific Ocean, 20.4% to Red Sea and 18.3 % to the Atlantic, while the relationship with the remaining zoogeographic areas given above is negligible The Hexactinellid and Calcareous
species also have more or less similar pattern of distribution as that of Demospongiae
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1983
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1284/1/Thom_7-16.pdf
Thomas, P A (1983) Distribution and affinities of the sponge fauna of the Indian region. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 25 (1&2). pp. 7-16.