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Molluscan biodiversity and resource conservation

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Title Molluscan biodiversity and resource conservation
 
Creator Appukuttan, K K
 
Subject Conservation
Molluscan Fisheries
Marine Biodiversity
 
Description The phylum Mollusca is currently the second most diverse animal group with origin date
back before Cambrain. These animals are soft bodied heterogeneous group with great antiquity
and are extremely diversified in shape and colour. This animal group include coat-of-mail shell
(Ampheneura), snails (Gastropods), clams, oysters and mussels (Bivalvia), octopuses, squids
and cuttlefishes (Cephalapods), less obvious animals such as slugs and sea slugs (which have an
internal shell), and elephant tusk shells (scaphopod).
 
Publisher CUSAT
 
Contributor Natarajan, P
Jayachandran, K V
Kannaiyan, S
Ambat, Babu
Augustine, Arun
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4675/1/391.pdf
Appukuttan, K K (2008) Molluscan biodiversity and resource conservation. In: Glimpses of Aquatic Biodiversity- Rajiv Gandhi Chair Special Publication. CUSAT, Kochi, pp. 103-110.