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First Record of Black Coral Associated Sea Anemone (Nemanthus annamensis Carlgren 1943;Family Nemanthidae) from India


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1 Zoological Survey of India, Andaman Nicobar Regional Centre, Andaman and Nicobar Islands -744102, India
2 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India
 

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Information on Actiniarian sea anemone in Andaman & Nicobar Archipelago were limited to the works of Parulekar (1967, 1968, 1969a, b, 1971 & 1990), until two recent works of Madhu and Madhu (2007) and Raghunathan et al. (2014) which reported 20 species from this locality. Of which, five species are new records to India and one species is new distributional record to Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Sea Anemone, New Record, Black Coral, Andaman and Nicobar Island, India.
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  • First Record of Black Coral Associated Sea Anemone (Nemanthus annamensis Carlgren 1943;Family Nemanthidae) from India

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Authors

Smitanjali Choudhury
Zoological Survey of India, Andaman Nicobar Regional Centre, Andaman and Nicobar Islands -744102, India
C. Raghunathan
Zoological Survey of India, Andaman Nicobar Regional Centre, Andaman and Nicobar Islands -744102, India
K. Venkataraman
Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, India

Abstract


Information on Actiniarian sea anemone in Andaman & Nicobar Archipelago were limited to the works of Parulekar (1967, 1968, 1969a, b, 1971 & 1990), until two recent works of Madhu and Madhu (2007) and Raghunathan et al. (2014) which reported 20 species from this locality. Of which, five species are new records to India and one species is new distributional record to Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Keywords


Sea Anemone, New Record, Black Coral, Andaman and Nicobar Island, India.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v115i4.166397