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Importance of Taxonomy and Identification in Shellfish Trade

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15901/
 
Title Importance of Taxonomy and Identification in Shellfish Trade
 
Creator Kavitha, M
Venkatesan, V
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
Fish Taxonomy
 
Description The gastropods constitute a large and highly diversified class within the phylum Mollusca
with 1,00,000 living species, of which the estimated number of valid marine species are
around 50,000 to 55,000 (Mollusca Base, 2021). Gastropods encompass 80 % of living
molluscs species. Gastropods are considered as the oldest known fossils with their shells
being evolved in rocks 540 million years ago. Many gastropods possess a shell that protects
the soft body of the animal. In most species, the coiled shell opens on the right-hand side
(dextral). Rarely, right-hand coiled species will produce left-hand coiled (sinistral) shells and
vice versa.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2022
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15901/1/Recent%20development%20in%20taxonomic%20techniques%20of%20marine%20fishes%20for%20conservation%20and%20sustainable%20fisheries%20management_2022_Kavitha%20M.pdf
Kavitha, M and Venkatesan, V (2022) Importance of Taxonomy and Identification in Shellfish Trade. In: ICAR-CMFRI -Winter School on Recent Development in Taxonomic Techniques of Marine Fishes for Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Management. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 445-462.