- Home
- Organization
- History
- Executive Council
- Associate Office-Bearers
- Editorial Board
- Minutes of General Body
- MBAI Chapters
- Constitution/ Bye Law
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India
Occurrence of Pteroeides esperi (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea: Pennatulidae) along the coast of Andhra Pradesh, India
Pteroeides esperi belonging to the family Pennatulidae is distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. In the present study, five specimens were collected from the landings of commercial multiday trawler operated at the depth of 30-40 m along the coast of Andhra Pradesh, Bay of Bengal. These specimens were characterized by the presence of cone-shaped colony, needle-like sclerites of the polyp leave forming rays, rod-shaped sclerites in rachis and length of peduncle less than half of the length of the colony. Therefore, based on the morphological description and sclerite details, these specimens were identified as P. esperi. This report represents the first formal record of the species in the coastal waters of Andhra Pradesh.
Sea pen, pennatulidae, sclerites, western Bay of Bengal
The Marine Biological Association of India
PB No. 1604, CMFRI Campus,
Cochin - 682018, Kerala State, India
Tel : +91 484 2394420, 2394867
Fax : +91 484 2394909
Email : mail@mbai.org.in
Web : http://mbai.org.in
The Marine Biological Association of India C/o Mandapam Regional Centre of CMFRI Marine Fisheries P. O, Mandapam Camp, Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu- 623 520