Journal of Marine Science: Research & Development
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Research Article

Distribution and Abundance of Amphioxus With Relation To Sediment Characteristics from South East Coast of India

Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai – 608 502, Tamil Nadu, India

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Babu A
Faculty of Marine Sciences
Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology
Annamalai University, Parangipettai-608 502
Tamil Nadu, India
Tel: 04144-243223
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E-mail: babumarine@gmail.com

Received date March 05, 2013; Accepted date May 26, 2013; Published date May 31, 2013

Citation: Babu A, Sampathkumar P, Balasubramanian T, Varadharajan D, Manikandarajan T (2013) Distribution and Abundance of Amphioxus With Relation To Sediment Characteristics from South East Coast of India. J Marine Sci Res Dev 3:121. doi:10.4172/2155-9910.1000121

Copyright: © 2013 Babu A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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 Biodiversity, the variety of life and understood of species survive. Lancelet plays an important role in marine benthic food chain. A study was carried out to observe the abundance and diversity of marine bottom lancelet and observations on sediment characteristics. The lancelet were collected station 1 at Cooum the maximum of 98.12 No/ m2 was observed in site IV and minimum of 4.22 No/m2 was observed in site II. Station 2 at Muttukadu the maximum of 165.12 No/m2 was observed in site I and minimum of 1.10 No/m2 was observed in site IV. Station 3 at Pondicherry the maximum of 98.8 No/m2 was recorded in site II and minimum of 2.35 No/m2 was recorded in site IV. At all station when compared the maximum species was observed in Muttukadu and minimum in Cooum during the study period.

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