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

Premalata Pati ¹, R. C. Panigrahy ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University, Berhampur 760007, Odisha, IN

Abstract

The study of the molluscs in India although ows its origin to 18th century initiated by the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784), marine malacology obtained significance only in 20th century with initiateves taken by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Central marine Fisheries of India (CMFRI) and many maritime universities. Several surveys have been conducted to record the marine molluscan fauna of India starting with Preston (1910,1914) to Subba Rao (1968) and Apte (2009).

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