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Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2018, 8(2): 83-98
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New records of Actiniarian sea anemones in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Smitanjali Choudhury1, C. Raghunathan2
1Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair-744 102, A and N Islands, India
2Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India

Received 18 December 2017;Accepted 20 January 2018;Published 1 June 2018
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Abstract
The present paper provides the descriptive features of three newly recorded Actiniarian sea anemones Actinoporus elegans Carlgren, 1900, Heterodactyla hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1834, Thalassianthus aster Ruppell and Leuckart, 1828 from Indian waters and two newly recorded species Stichodactyla tapetum (Hemprich and Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834), Pelocoetes exul (Annandale, 1907) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This paper also accounts two genera, namely Heterodactyla and Thalassianthus as new records to India waters.

Keywords sea anemone;new record;distribution;Andaman and Nicobar Islands;India.


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