Distribution of Molluscan fauna in Coringa Estuarine Mangroves, South East Coast of India

ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Coringa mangrove rehabilitation area on September 2014. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the diversity of Gastropods and Bivalves based on the different level of vegetation age of mangrove. During the present survey, 11 species of molluscs were recorded. Among them 8 of gastropods, viz.Telescopium telescopium Linnaeus (1758),Cerithidea cingulata Gmelin 1791,and Fusinus colus( Linnaeus,1758)4 species of bivalves namely, Andara granosa, Mactra violaceae Gmelin, 1791 Gastrana polygona ( Gmelin,1791),and Anapella cycladea (Lamarck, 1818) were observed. Till now, no studies have been taken up so far in these aspects. So, the present study has been taken up to provide some basic information of the mollusca fauna of the Coringa mangrove. Key words: Mangrove, Gastropods, Bivalves. REFERENCES Alfred J. B., Varshney R. K., Ghosh A. K. (eds) 1997 An assessment manual for faunal biodiversity in South Asia. SACEP/NORAD Publication Series on Biodiversity in South Asia No 1, 181pp. Boominathan, M., Chandran, M.D.S., Ramachandra, T.V., (2008). Economic Valuation of Bivalves in the Aghanashini Estuary, West Coast, Karnataka. ENVIS Technical Report: 30. Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Chakravarty M.S. and Joseph Uday Ranjan T., (2014). A Check List of Malacofauna from The Nuvvalarevu Backwaters of Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, India. International Journal of Research in Marine Sciences 3(1): 11-15. Dey, A., 2006, Handbook on mangrove associate molluscs of Sundarbans. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp 96 Das. A.K. & Roy, M.K.D., (1989). A general account of the mangrove fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands. Conservation area series, Zoological survey of India 4: 1-73. Ganapati, P.N. and Rao, M.V.L. 1959. Incidence of marine borers in the mangrove of Godavari estuary. Current Science, 28(8): 332. Hogarth P. J., 2001 Mangrove ecosystems. pp. 853-870. In: Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity. Vol. 3. Academic Press. Kathiresan K., Bingham B. L., 2001 Biology of mangroves and mangroves ecosystems. Adv Mar Biol 40:84–251. Kesavan, K., Palpandi, C. and Shanmugam, A. 2009. A checklist of malacofauna of the Vellar estuarine mangroves, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 1(7): 382-384. Mahapatra, A., 2001, Molluscan fauna of Godavari estuary: Fauna of Godavari, Estuarine Ecosystem series, 4:55-82. Zoological Survey of India. Pawar R. Prabhakar, 2012. Molluscan Diversity in Mangrove Ecosystem of Uran (Raigad), Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, West coast of India. Bull. Environ. Pharmacol. Life Sci. Vol. 1(6) 55-59. Ramakrishna and A. Dey. Annotated checklist of Indian Marine Molluscs (Cephalopoda, Bivalve and Scaphopoda) Part-1. Rec.Zool.Surv.India, Occ. Paper no., 320:1-357. (Published by the Director, Zool.Surv.India, and Kolkata). Radhakrishna, Y. and Janakiram K., (1975). The mangrove molluscs of Godavari and Krishna estuaries. In: Natarajan, R. (Ed.), Recent Researches in Estuarine Biology, 20-24 Jan 1972. Porto Novo. Hindustan Publishing Corporation, Delhi, India, 177-184. Vaught, K.C, 1989, A classification of the living Mollusca ed. (R.T. Abbott and K.J.Boss) American Malacologist, U.S.A, pp 189