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Sea-Anemones
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http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3527/
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Sea-Anemones
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Chakravarty, Gurudas
Chakraborty, S K Achari, G P Kumaraswamy Dam Roy, S |
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Marine Ecosystems
Mangroves Marine Biodiversity |
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| Description |
Actiniarians are popularly called ‘sea-anemones’ because of their flower-like appearance of the expanded oral disc. They are very common animals of the sea-shore and muddy intertidal belt of estuary. They belong to the Phylum Cnidaria having solitary, cylindrical body. The body is divided into oral disc, column and base. Different workers like- Annandale (1907&1915), Carlgren (1925), Panikkar (1936), Parulekar (1968), Seshaiya and Cuttres (1971), Misra (1975&1976), Misra and Soota (1981), Bairagi (1998) etc. had worked on sea-anemones in Indian waters. Altogether 20 species under 17 genera belong to 10 families have been recorded from India. Among these only 7 species are reported from West Bengal but Bairagi (1998) had confirmed the occurence of 9 species under 7 genera and 5 families from Hoogly- Matla estuarine area of West Bengal. |
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CMFRI; Kochi
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2005
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Article
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application/pdf
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en
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http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3527/1/9.pdf
Chakravarty, Gurudas and Chakraborty, S K and Achari, G P Kumaraswamy and Dam Roy, S (2005) Sea-Anemones. CMFRI Special Publication : Mangrove ecosystems - A manual for the assessment of biodiversity (83). pp. 146-149. |
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