IOSR Journal of Pharmacy
ISSN: 2250-3013, www.
iosrphr.
org
‖‖ Volume 2 Issue 5 ‖‖ Sep-Oct.
2012 ‖‖ PP.
38-43
38
Distributional record of five scleractinian corals from Andaman
& Nicobar Islands
Tamal Mondal*, C.
Raghunathan & K.
Venkataraman1
Zoological...
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IOSR Journal of Pharmacy
ISSN: 2250-3013, www.
iosrphr.
org
‖‖ Volume 2 Issue 5 ‖‖ Sep-Oct.
2012 ‖‖ PP.
38-43
38
Distributional record of five scleractinian corals from Andaman
& Nicobar Islands
Tamal Mondal*, C.
Raghunathan & K.
Venkataraman1
Zoological Survey of India, Andaman & Nicobar Regional Centre, National Coral Reef Research
Institute, Haddo, Port Blair-744 102, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India
1
Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M- Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India
Abstract––Andaman & Nicobar Islands are the most promising areas with highly diversed faunal communities
in its marine environment of Indo-Pacific basin.
It showed a great variety of species richness in scleractinian
corals.
Five species of scleractinians such as Montipora turtlensis Veron & Wallace, 1984; Montipora
crassituberculata Bernard, 1897; Montipora effusa Dana, 1846 under Acroporidae family, Stylophora
subseriata (Ehrenberg, 1834) belongs to Pocilloporidae family and Podabacia
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