Checklist of scleractinian corals of India with their IUCN status : A special reference to Andaman and Nicobar Islands

ISBN-13: 9783330073289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str.

Tamal Mondal; C. Raghunathan; Kailash Chandra

Opis

This book represents a detailed checklist of Indian scleractinian corals from all the reef areas. A total of 628 recorded species of hard corals are depicted in a table with their distributional pattern. The data on a total of 588 species of scleractinian corals of Andaman and Nicobar Islands were depicted on the basis of comprehensive field surveys since 2009 along with the available literature while the scleractinian species diversity of other reef areas of India were included on the basis of available literature. The status evaluation was included under the IUCN Redlist category and criteria to recognize the species. Local occurrence of all the recorded hard corals of Andaman and Nicobar Islands were showcased in this book. This book is the first initiative to document the entire reef building as well as non-reef building species database of Indian waters along with their global and regional status.

O autorze

Dr. Tamal Mondal is a DST-Young Scientist in Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair. Dr. C. Raghunathan is a renowned marine biologist & Officer-in-Charge in Zoological Survey of India, Port Blair. Dr. Kailash Chandra is the well-known biologist of India & Director in Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata under MoFE&CC, Government of India.