The recovery of coral reefs devastated by catastrophic events with particular reference to current Acanthaster planci Plagues in the tropical Indo- West Pacific region.

Silting in navigational channels of the Cochin Harbour area

Some new records of hydroids from the Gulf of Aquaba with zoogeographical remarks on the Red Sea area.

Studies on the larval stages of Euphausiacea from the lndian Seas

Marine pollution by pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls.

On the post-naupliar development of the calanoid copepod Labidocera pectinata Thompson and Scott (1 903).

The Tethyan legacy - The origin and dispersion of Indian Ocean Echinoids.

A new species of pedunculate barancle of the genus Lepas (Cirripedia: Thoracica) from the Eastern Indian Ocean.

History of research, Indian Ocean foraminifera

Seasonal abundance and distribution of bottom fauna of the Chilka Lake

Two new records of meso-and bathy-planktonic chaetognaths from the Indian Seas.

On the occurrence of a blue-green alga on fishes of the family Leiognathidae.

Euprymna morsei (Verrill, 1881) (Sepiolidae: Cephalopoda from the Indian Coast

Ixa inermis Leach (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) a new record from Indian waters.

On the occurrence of the fan shell Atrina (Sevatrina) pectinata pectinata (Linnaeus) off Mandapam in Palk Bay.

Solenocera indica Nataraj, one of the commercially important penaeid prawns of Indian waters as a synonym of Solenocera crassicornis (H. Milne-Edwards).

On the occurrence of the hydroid Obelia commissuralis McCrady along west coast of India.

On 'Kowala thoracata Cuvier and Valenciennes' of Cantor (1 850).