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Journal article

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New distributional records of Actiniarian sea anemones from Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Abstract

Two species of actiniarian sea anemones Actinodendron arboreum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) and Diadumene leucolena (Verrill, 1866) under the families Actinodendronidae and Diadumenidae respectively were recorded as new addition of sea anemone fauna to India from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Earlier literature indicated that the occurrence of A. arboreum from Asia-Pacific region while D. leucolena known from east and west coast of North America. The diagnostic features of the presently recorded species along with distributional details are provided.

Bibliographic citation

Raghunathan, C.; Choudhury, S. (2017). New distributional records of Actiniarian sea anemones from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Rec. Zool. Surv. India 117(1): 26-33. https://dx.doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117280

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