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Study on the Gorgonid bed off Chennai and its qualitative appraisal

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Title Study on the Gorgonid bed off Chennai and its qualitative appraisal
 
Creator Rajalakshmi, S
George, Rani Mary
 
Subject Gorgonids
Coral Reefs
Conservation
Marine Ecosystems
 
Description Gorgonian corals or horny corals are corrunon tropical and subtropical octocorallian cnidarians having biomedical importance. This group includes the sea fans, sea feathers and sea whips. The discovery of prostaglandins and other natural products from gorgonids triggered off a worldwide hunt for this chemically rich animals. The present paper describes the status of taxonomy of seven species collected from the Kovalam shore, Chennai. They are referable to three families and five genera. Species such as Echinomuricea indica Thomson and Simpson, Gorgonella umbraculum (Ellis and Solander) and Pseudothesea
pallida (Nutting) forms the mainstay of Kovalam waters, off Chennai.
 
Date 2004
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7721/1/B026-_NATURAL_SEA_ON_NEW_FRONTERS_IN_MARINE_BIO_SCIENCE_RESEARCH_2004%28487-500%29..pdf
Rajalakshmi, S and George, Rani Mary (2004) Study on the Gorgonid bed off Chennai and its qualitative appraisal. In: Proceedings of the National Seminar on New Frontiers in Marine Bioscience Research, January 22-23; 2004, Chennai.