Addition of three Ascidian species to Indian waters from Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Authors

  • Jhimli Mondal
     Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata – 700053, West Bengal
  • C. Raghunathan
     Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata – 700053, West Bengal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v122/i3/2022/167382

Keywords:

Andaman Islands, India, New records, Sea Squirts

Abstract

Ascidians are exclusively marine, an invertebrate chordate faunal group commonly known as sea-squirt; found worldwide from intertidal to a greater depth of the ocean. Three species of ascidians, Polycarpa reniformis (Sluiter, 1904) and Cnemidocarpa hemprichi Hartmeyer, 1916 belonging to the family Styeidae and Microcosmus bitunicatus Monniot F. and Monniot C. 2001 belonging to the family Pyuridae of order Stolidobranchia under the class Ascidiacea were recorded from the reef environment and shipwreck area of Andaman and Nicobar Islands first time from Indian waters. Taxonomic characteristics along with their previous distributional range are depicted in the present article

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2022-09-02

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Mondal, J., & Raghunathan, C. (2022). Addition of three Ascidian species to Indian waters from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 122(3), 275–282. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v122/i3/2022/167382

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Volume 122, Issue 3, 2022

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