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Additions to the algal flora of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay from Mandapam area

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Title Additions to the algal flora of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay from Mandapam area
 
Creator Rao, M Umamaheswara
 
Subject Seaweed
 
Description As early as 1927, Prof. M. O. P. Iyengar gave a brief account of the flora of Krusadai Island and other collecting grounds in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay areas near Mandapam. Later on, Boergesen (1937a, b ; 1938) reported a large number of the algae occurring around Mandapam in his contributions on south Indian algal flora,
but the green algae of this area were not included in this work. Since then, detailed attempts have not been made to study the algal flora of Mandapam, but for a provisional
list of algae of Krusadai Island (Chacko et ah, 1955) and a paper on a new species of Halicystis (Iyengar & Ramanathan, 1954). While working on some ecological aspects of marine algae of Mandapam, the author had the opportunity to
collect algae in the different seasons of the year, in the vicinity of Mandapam (79°8' E, 9''17' N) and nearby places like Pudumadam and Kilakarai. Among the collections made since 1964 some plants have not been previously recorded from Mandapam area ; a list of these algae is given in this report with brief notes on their distribution.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1968
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1557/1/Rao_366-369.pdf
Rao, M Umamaheswara (1968) Additions to the algal flora of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay from Mandapam area. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 10 (2). pp. 366-369.