First report of endemic Taiwanese caryophyllid coral Polycyathus chaishanensis from Indian waters
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Ahermatypic corals are mostly distributed in the greater depth region in com- parison with shallow areas while inter-tidal zones are representing very limited species diversity. The family Caryophylliidae harbors the maximum species of ahermatypic corals including a maximum of azooxanthellate corals also. Polycyathus chaishanensis Lin, Kitahara, Tachikawa, Keshavmurthy & Chen, 2012 is an endemic zooxanthellate caryophylliid coral of inter-tidal habitats of Taiwan. This present paper deals with a new distributional record of P. chaishanensis from a tidal pool of Andaman and Nicobar Islands as a new addition to Indian waters.
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