Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: chellaiyan stella and Shanmugm Vijayalakshmi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 160 ISBN: 9783659117305
Описание
The Molluscs constitute a significant part of world fauna today.The Palk bay area is familiar for the presence of economically important renewable resources like seaweeds, shrimps, lobsters, holothurians, mollusks and fin fishes.However there is lack of information on the molluscan fauna.The fauna is rich in the intertidal area and coastal habitats from Point Calimere to Mandapam .Of late coastal habitats here are under threat from development activities and over exploitation of natural resources. This necessitates documentation of fauna present in this important area besides categorizing them as endemic, threatened and endangered species. This exercise in addition to information on abundance and diversity will help in the earmarking areas for conservation. Therefore the present initiative was taken to prepare a checklist of bivalves species available here along with their classification and key characters for identification. From this Palk Bay area, we have identified and recorded...
