Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India

Range extension of Snowflake soft coral, Carijoa riisei, (octocorallia: alcyonacea) along Digha coast, West Bengal, India

Volume 65 Issue 1

J. S. Yogesh Kumar, C. Raghunathan, P. Mahapatra, P. Panda and A. Sen

doi:10.6024/jmbai.2023.65.1.2307-18

Abstract

The present study reports the snowflake soft coral Carijoa riisei (Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860) for the first time from the Digha coast, West Bengal, northeast coast of India, and it is reported from the Gulf of Mannar, south-east coasts to Gulf of Kachchh, north-west coasts of India. The sclerites ranged from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm in size, and collected samples were deposited in ZSI-MARC, Digha, West Bengal.

Keywords

Invasive species, soft coral, snowflake, Carijoa riisei, alcyonacea, Digha 

Date : 26-04-2023