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<p>A note on zoogeographic range extension of <em>Endopachys grayi</em> Milne-Edwards &amp; Haime, 1848 (Scleractinia: Dendrophyllidae) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands</p>

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Title Statement <p>A note on zoogeographic range extension of <em>Endopachys grayi</em> Milne-Edwards &amp; Haime, 1848 (Scleractinia: Dendrophyllidae) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands</p>
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Mondal, T ; Zoological Survey of India Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre Port Blair – 744 102 Andaman and Nicobar Islands India
Bineesh, K K
Raghunathan, C
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India
 
Uncontrolled Index Term Azooxanthellate, Coral, Deep-sea, Indo-Pacific
 
Summary, etc. <p style="text-align: justify;">The family Dendrophylliidae represents solitary as well as colonial corals with a total of 183 extant valid species under the Order Scleractinia, distributed from littoral to the abyssal depths. During a recent deep-sea survey conducted by <em>FORV Sagar Sampada </em>(FORVSS367)<em>,</em> a specimen of azooxanthellate dendrophylliid <em>i.e</em>. <em>Endopachys grayi</em> Milne-Edwards &amp; Haime, 1848 was collected at the depth of 685 m from Nicobar waters which indicates its range extension to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Indo-Pacific region while the previously reported depth range of the species is 37 to 386 m. The present report of <em>E. grayi</em> is a new addition to this archipelago.</p>
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences (IJMS)
2022-09-01 01:59:01
 
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Data Source Entry Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences (IJMS); ##issue.vol## 51, ##issue.no## 04 (2022)
 
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