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Sponge fauna of Lakshadweep

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Title Sponge fauna of Lakshadweep
 
Creator Thomas, P A
 
Subject Echinoderms
Sponges
 
Description The present collection of sponges from
Lakshadweep is of great significance since this
group had been left out while Gardiner (1903-
1906) dealt with the fauna and geography of
the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagoes. Since
then several works dealing with the sponge
fauna of the Indian seas have appeared, but
unfortunatly, few of these relating to the sponge
fauna of Lakshawdeep. In this context the
special interest taken by Dr. S. Jones, the then
Director of the Central Marine Fisheries Research
Institute in the 1960's in studying and documentting
the fauna of Lakshadweep is worth mentioning.
Besides obtaining data on the various
fisheries of the island by the scientists posted at
Minicoy, other scientists/research scholars, who
were deputed to Minicoy from time to time also
collected voluminous data and material from the
different islands of this archipelago, to be later
worked out by those interested. Sponges, thus
collected, formed the part of a Ph. D. thesis (11
species including one new species) submitted
by the present author in 1968 to the Kerala
University. The subsequent collections of
sponges from Minicoy were worked out and
published serially (Thomas' 1973; 1979, 1980
and 1980a). The above works have helped to
know mainly about the sponge fauna of Minicoy
island and these accounted for a total of 41
species of Demospongiae falling under 23
families and 32 genera, while the sponge fauna
of other islands still remained unexplored.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2647/1/Article_16.pdf
Thomas, P A (1989) Sponge fauna of Lakshadweep. CMFRI Bulletin Marine living resources of the union territory of Lakshadweep An Indicative Survey With Suggestions For Development, 43. pp. 150-161.