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Occurrence of Pteroeides esperi (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea: Pennatulidae) along the coast of Andhra Pradesh, India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16534/
http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=2641&bkid=129
10.6024/jmbai.2022.64.2.2330-18
 
Title Occurrence of Pteroeides esperi (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea:
Pennatulidae) along the coast of Andhra Pradesh, India
 
Creator Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
Jishnudev, M A
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
 
Subject Invertebrates
Echinoderms
 
Description Pteroeides esperi belonging to the family Pennatulidae is distributed
in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. In the present study, five specimens
were collected from the landings of commercial multiday trawler
operated at the depth of 30-40 m along the coast of Andhra
Pradesh, Bay of Bengal. These specimens were characterized by the
presence of cone-shaped colony, needle-like sclerites of the polyp
leave forming rays, rod-shaped sclerites in rachis and length of
peduncle less than half of the length of the colony. Therefore, based
on the morphological description and sclerite details, these specimens
were identified as P. esperi. This report represents the first formal
record of the species in the coastal waters of Andhra Pradesh.
 
Publisher Marine Biological Association of India
 
Date 2022
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16534/1/Journal%20of%20Marine%20Biological%20Association%20of%20India_2022_Shubasheep%20Ghosh.pdf
Behera, Pralaya Ranjan and Jishnudev, M A and Ghosh, Shubhadeep (2022) Occurrence of Pteroeides esperi (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea: Pennatulidae) along the coast of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 64 (2). pp. 115-117. ISSN 2321-7898