Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

Basudev Tripathy ¹, Abhijna Ghosh ¹, Poulami Paul ¹, Amit Kumar Mukhopadhyay ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700053, IN

Abstract

Among the various classes, Bivalvia is considered as the most primitive in the phylum Mollusca and is an important element of benthic epifauna. Bivalvia restricted their distribution to aquatic habitats both in the freshwater and marine environment. A total of 646 species of marine bivalves have been reported from India under 171 genera, 11 order and 69 families (Ramakrishna and Dey, 2010). In this paper, we have described three new records of Bivalves for the first time from West Coast of India.

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