Report of Newly Recorded Eight Scleractinian Corals from Middle and South Andaman Archipelago, India

Tamal Mondal; C. Raghunathan; K. Venkataraman

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Tamal Mondal
C. Raghunathan
K. Venkataraman

biodiversity, biogenic, new record, andaman and nicobar islands

Abstract

belong to the family Siderastreidae, Halomitra meierae Veron and Maragos, 2000 under the family Fungiidae, Lobophyllia flabelliformis Veron, 2000 and Mussismilia braziliensis (Verrill, 1867) belong to the Mussidae family are reported as new distributional record to Indian waters from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This present paper deals with the taxonomical features, occurrence and status evaluation of these eight newly recorded species along with their previous distribution.

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Report of Newly Recorded Eight Scleractinian Corals from Middle and South Andaman Archipelago, India. (2015). Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, 15(C2), 19-25. https://www.journalofscience.org/index.php/GJSFR/article/view/1608

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