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

D. R. K. Sastry ¹, Santanu Mitra ², J. Chitra ², J. G. Pattanayak ²

Affiliations
1 25/61 PGM Shah Road, Golf Garden, Kolkata-700 095, IN
2 Zoological Survey of India, 27 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata-700017, IN

Abstract

The Karnataka State of India has a 270 km long coast line bordering Arabian Sea. The habitats are mainly sandy with scattered rocks and rocky islands. The echinoderm fauna of the coast is poorly known. There are several scattered reports of echinoderms from Karnataka (see Sastry, 2007). However, the report of Patil (1953) includes the marine fauna exclusively of Karnataka and only Temnopleurus sp. of echinoderms from Karwar coast of Karnataka.

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D. R. K. Sastry ¹, Y. K. V. Rao ¹, T . Ganesh ¹, M. Srinivasa Rao ¹, N. Sateesh ¹, A. Bharati ¹, C. Annapurna ¹, A. V. Raman ¹

Affiliations
1 Marine Biology Laboratory, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530 003, IN

Abstract

Accounts of faunal resources of different coastal segments are important to trace the availability and to assess the extent of distribution as well as the similarity among the fauna and the habitats. Knowing the echinoderm resources is additionally important because of their connection with the health of the environment.

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