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Observation on juvenile sea cucumber occurrence in the shallow waters of Hare Island (erstwhile Pandian Island), Tuticorin

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Title Observation on juvenile sea cucumber occurrence in the shallow waters
of Hare Island (erstwhile Pandian Island), Tuticorin
 
Creator Asha, P S
Diwakar, K
Manisseri, Mary K
 
Subject Invertebrata
 
Description Understanding juvenile sea cucumber habitat
preferences is very much essential for determining
the carrying capacity of a given habitat which enables
the successful release of sea cucumber juveniles for
restocking purpose. Holothurians occupy different
habitats such as rocky shores, sandy beaches,
muddy flats, coral reefs and mangrove swamps at
different depths. In general, the juvenile
sea cucumbers exist in the habitat occupied by the
adult but are obscured from view within the sediment
or crevices or beneath obscuring objects such as
corals and rocks. Juveniles of 21 species of
holothurians have already been reported from
Indian waters, of which 17 were observed in the same
habitat as adults and 4 in the absence of adult.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9424/1/5.pdf
Asha, P S and Diwakar, K and Manisseri, Mary K (2013) Observation on juvenile sea cucumber occurrence in the shallow waters of Hare Island (erstwhile Pandian Island), Tuticorin. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). pp. 11-12.