Checklist of Intertidal Benthic Macrofauna of a Brackish Water Coastal Lagoon on East Coast of India: The Chilika Lake

An Updated Checklist of Benthic Polychaetes of Asia?s Largest Brackish Water Coastal Lagoon -The Chilika Lake

“…Hence, it is established that higher salinity favours more marine forms rather than the brackish water species. This is in congruence with the findings of Mahapatro et al [20].…”

“…Subsequently, Mandal and Harkantra [19] found 31 polychaete species while working on Mumbai port. But, recently Mahapatro et al [20] reported 39 polychaetes species along the outer channel area of Chilika lake. Interestingly, the species composition of benthic polychaete appeared in the different coastal ecosystems of India was apparently same with species compositions documented during this study.…”

“…Perusal of literatures revealed that, research on diversity and distribution of benthic polychaete on different coastal ecosystems of India has got maximum attention [3,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Although, research on benthic polychaetes in India was started from Chilika lake [22].…”

“…Though, benthic polychaete is used as the indicator of environmental stress. But, in the context of Chilika lake very less information is available so far [20]. Thus, the present study was planned (i) to prepare a complete checklist of benthic polychaetes, (ii) to compare the present set of information with previously data set and (iii) to find out the occurrence of any pollution indicator species.…”

Range extension of a vulnerable Sea horse Hippocampus fuscus (Actinopterygii: Syngnathidae) on the north-eastern Bay of Bengal coast

“…Presently, Mahapatro et al, (2015a) found a pale yellow coloured sea horse from the sea grass bed of the Rambharatia region of Chilika Lake. Hence, the migration of sea horse from the BoB to Lake could be due to the potential feeding activities or through the tidal current.…”