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

J. G. Pattanayak ¹, Santanu Mura ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, 27, J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016, IN

Abstract

The Karnataka state on west coast of India abutting the Arabian Sea has a long and narrow coast with small crescent shaped pocket beaches. It is interspersed with rocky head lands, spectacular spits, estuaries, shallow lagoons, mudflats and a few patches of mangroves. The northern coast is rocky while the southern coast has long sandy beaches.

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