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Title Molluscs
 
Creator Chakravarty, Gurudas
Giri, Sunirmal
Chakraborty, S K
Dam Roy, S
Mathew, Ansy
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
Mangroves
 
Description Molluscs constitute a major group in the animal
kingdom. In number of species, the mollusca is the
second largest phylum after arthropoda. About
1,00,000 living species of molluscs are reported to
be occuring in the world. They occupy almost all
possible habitats - marine, brackish water, freshwater,
land and also arboreal in some groups. India harbours
an approximate total of 3,271 species of molluscs
spread over nearly 591 genera and 220 families (Mitra
and Dey, 1992). On the other hand, a checklist of
molluscs of Indian estuaries includes a total of 245
species (120 gastropods and 125 bivalvs) [Subba Rao
and Surya Rao ,1985]. They play a significant role in
maintaining the steady state of the mangrove
ecosystem and enhance its biological potentiality.
Molluscs constitute an important faunal component
in the food web of any estuarine-marine coastal
environment. Previously several taxonomic and
ecological survey of estuarine-marine molluscs of
India was conducted by several workers
(Banford,1867; Annandale and Kemp, 1916;
Annandale and Prasad, 1919; Subba Rao et al., 1983;
Subba Rao et al., 1992, Khalua et al., 2003). The
present study deals with the taxonomic survey (34
species, 24 genera, 22 families and 9 orders) of
intertidal macrobenthic molluscs.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 2005
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4026/1/11.pdf
Chakravarty, Gurudas and Giri, Sunirmal and Chakraborty, S K and Dam Roy, S and Mathew, Ansy (2005) Molluscs. CMFRI Special Publication Mangrove ecosystems: A manual for the assessment of biodiversity, 83. pp. 158-168.