Article 2021
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee, Igor Dovgal, Aniket Desai, Mandar Nanajkar
Published in: Acta Biologica
Here we report a rotifer-ciliate-gastropod hyperepibiosis in freshwater canal, Goa, India. A rotifer Philodina cf. megalotrocha Ehrenberg, 1832 was found attached on the colony of Epistylis
plicatilis Ehrenberg, 1838 which was epibiont on gastropod Pomacea bridgesi (Reeve, 1856)…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2021.28-09 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee, Baban Ingole
Published in: Acta Biologica
In spite, of being the most threatened coastal habitats in the world, mangrove ecosystems offer a
host of goods and services to the coastal communities. With over 4,975 sq.km of the mangrove
area, India has the largest mangrove in Asia that constitutes about 45% of the total ma…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2021.28-08 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Sautya, Igor Dovgal, Sunil Kumar Padhi
Published in: Acta Biologica
The article deals with the report of suctorian ciliate Lecanophryella indica from new locality
(Mumbai, west coast of India, Arabian Sea) and new host – harpacticoid copepod. The redescription of the species is presented. The possible prevalence of L. indica to localization on
…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2021.28-07 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee
Published in: Acta Biologica
This paper compiles the entoproct species recorded from India, Altogether 7 species belong
to 4 genera viz. Barentsia (3 species), Loxosomatoides (2 species), Pedicellina (1 species),
and Urnatella (1 species) were reported from India. Two species viz. Barentsia gracilis and
P…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2021.28-06 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Baban Ingole, Biswajit Chakraborty, Tapas Chatterjee, Igor Dovgal
Published in: Acta Biologica
The suctorian ciliate Thecacineta calix is reported off the coast of Panama, Florida (USA)
epibiont on meiobenthic harpacticoid copepod. This is the first report of T. calix from Florida coast. The length of stalk in the present specimens, epibiont on harpacticoids, ranged from …
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2020.27-13 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee, Igor Dovgal, Mahesh Jadhav, Mandar Nanajkar
Published in: Acta Biologica
Suctorian ciliate Trematosoma rotunda (Allgén, 1952) is reported here for the first time as epibiont on a harpacticoid copepod collected from Mandovi river estuarine mouth, Goa, west coast of India, Arabian Sea. The description of the species, synonymy, data on species distributi…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2020.27-10 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Gangadhar Tambre, Sambhaji Mote, Kalyan De, Deepa Yogi, Mahesh Jadhav, Baban Ingole, Tapas Chatterjee, Mandar Nanajkar
Published in: Acta Biologica
Hydrophis schistosus (Daudin, 1803) commonly known as beaked sea snake occurs in shallow
marine and estuarine habitats of India. The population of H. schistosus has been frequently noted in the shore-seine net as By-catch. Only a few studies are available about By-catch of sea s…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2020.27-07 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee
Published in: Acta Biologica
The article deals with a survey on literature of parasitic halacarid mites. Exact nature of rela-
tionship between mites and their invertebrate hosts is unknown for most of these associations, as live observations not found. Some species are assumed to be parasitic.
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2020.27-01 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee, Mandar Nanajkar
Published in: Acta Biologica
Rhombognathus scutulatus Bartsch is reported here from Goa, India. World distribution of this
species is also provided.
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2019.26-11 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee
Published in: Acta Biologica
Scanning electron microscopic observations of some characters of Acarothrix grandocularis
Chatterjee, Marshall, Guru, Ingole, Pešić 2012 is presented. Distribution and characters of spe-cies belonging to the genus Acarothrix are also discussed.
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2019.26-10 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2018
Authors / editors: TAPAS CHATTERJEE
Published in: Acta Biologica
Copidognathus andhraensis Chatterjee, Annapurna & Chang, 2004 is reported here from
Anjuna beach, Goa, west coast of India (Arabian Sea) among algal sediment. This is the first
report of this species from west coast of India and also from the Arabian Sea.
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2018.25-10 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2018
Authors / editors: TAPAS CHATTERJEE, Chandrabhotla Annapurna, Bhikari Charan Guru, Baban Ingole
Published in: Acta Biologica
In any marine system, meiofauna plays a key role in the functioning of the food web and sustain important ecological processes. Benthic research has long been carried out both in spatial and temporal scale on the distribution, species diversity, community structure and abundance.…
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2018.25-03 · ISSN: 2450-8330
Article 2015
Authors / editors: Tapas Chatterjee
Published in: Acta Biologica
DOI: 10.18276/ab.2015.22-15 · ISSN: 1230-3976