First report on Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) transversalis Moseley, 1881 from Indian deep-sea
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The studies on Indian scleractinians have been comprehensively carrying out on the zooxanthellate corals mostly from the shallow reef habitats while the insightful documentation on azooxanthellate corals are scanty till now, though it was initiated before more than a century in 1891. Among the azooxanthellates, most of the species are reported under the family Caryophylliidae in a global context. This present paper deals with the reporting of one species of caryophylliid coral [Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) transversalis Moseley, 1881] from Andaman and Nicobar Islands as the first report to Indian waters. The sample was collected at the depth of 332 m by dredge sampling technique.
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