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Report on the International Indian Ocean Expedition Collections of Cumacea in the Smithsonian Institution Washington

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Title Report on the International Indian Ocean Expedition Collections of Cumacea in the Smithsonian Institution Washington
 
Creator Radhadevi, A
Kurian, C V
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
 
Description The studies on the Cumacea obtained by the International Indian Ocean Expedition deposited in the
Smithsonian Institution suggest that the Cumacean fauna along the east coast of Africa (Durban Bay,
Nossi-Be-Madagascar, Grand Comoro Island) is very rich. They show aflSnities with those of Australian
and Phillippine Coasts. Family Nannastacidae is widely distributed along the east coast of Africa, Malaya
Coast and Singapore Strait. It is also noted that most of them were obtained from shallow waters. Only
very few species are restricted to deeper regions. Campylaspts orientalis Caiman, C. rubincunda (Lilljeborg)
are distributed at 2125 m depth off Madagascar.
The specimens are mostly benthic and they are abundant in a fine sandy bottom with a small percentage
of silt and are rare in coarse and fine muddy deposits. Sometimes they occur in sand which
contains soft and hard corals, sponges and Sargassum. Nannastacus gibbosus is present in large numbers
at Palau Hantu (S. W. Singapore). The benthic collections from the Red Sea show that Schizotrema
aculeata prefers a sandy bottom in a very shallow depth. It is also noted that two species namely Nannastacus
longirostris and Cumella limicola which had been previously described from Mediterraenan Coasts
are widely distributed in the Nossi-Be-Madagascar area. Cumella limicola is known from west coast
of Africa also.
The ecological habitat of the Cumacean fauna of the east coast of Africa are essentially intertidal
rocks, large masses of compacted mud rocks, coral and rook patches on the hard sandy bottom with coral
reefs and mangroves. Leucon sp. and Hemilamprops sp. are quite common in the Durban Bay, while
Nannastacus sp. are observed from Nossi-Be-Madagascar areas and Singapore Coast.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1980
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1386/1/Radha_110-122.pdf
Radhadevi, A and Kurian, C V (1980) Report on the International Indian Ocean Expedition Collections of Cumacea in the Smithsonian Institution Washington. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 22 (1&2). pp. 110-122.