Biodiversity, feeding and reproduction of copepods of Chennai coast-India

Author

Kareem, Altaff ; Begum, Dilshad I. ; Mantha, Gopikrishna ; Sivakkumar, K.

Author_Institution

New Coll., Kolhapur, India

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

22-26 Sept. 2003

Abstract

Summary form only given. Diversity studies of copepods of 2 stations (Muttukadu and Ennore) of Chennai coast (13/spl deg/06N and 80/spl deg/18E) from Mar. 2002-Feb. 2003 recorded 33 species. Of which 14 species belong to calanoids, 13 species belong to cyclopoids and 6 species belong to harpacticoids. Among calanoids Pseudodiaptomus sp., Centropages sp. and Eucalanus sp. were more dominant at Muttukadu. Acrocalanus sp., Paracalanus sp. and Centropages sp. were dominant at Ennore. Poecilostomatoids genera such as Corycaeus sp. and Onacea sp. occurred more commonly at Muttukadu while Oithonids dominated at Ennore. Higher diversity of harpacticoids was recorded at Muttukadu than Ennore. The common genera are Euterpina, Microsetella and Macrosetella. In general, higher female ratio was observed in all copepods. However, highly biased male ration was observed in Pseudodiaptomus aurivilli. Copepods were statistically analyzed and their food and feeding habits and reproductive ecology are discussed.

Keywords

ecology; oceanographic regions; Chennai coast-India; Ennore station; Euterpina; Microsetella; Muttukadu station; Pseudodiaptomus aurivilli; biodiversity; calanoids pseudodiaptomus; copepods reproduction; cyclopoids; ecology; feeding; harpacticoids; oithonids; Biodiversity; Educational institutions; Environmental factors; Zoology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2003. Proceedings

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-933957-30-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2003.178193

Filename

1282737