Record of brown paper nautilus Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786 off Mumbai, northwest coast of India

Authors

  • Sundaram Sujit Mumbai Research Centre of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 2nd Floor, C.I.F.E old campus, Seven Bungalows, Andheri (W), Versova, Mumbai - 400 061, Maharashtra, India.
  • Mane Sushant Department of Zoology, Wilson College, Chowpaty, Mumbai – 400 007, Maharashtra, India.

Keywords:

Argonautidae, Argonauta hians, Mumbai, northwest coast of India

Abstract

The brown paper nautilus, Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786 was recorded for the first time from the northwest coast while investigating the biodiversity of cephalopods from Maharashtra waters. One specimen of the said species was collected as an incidental by-catch in the trawl catch off Mumbai, northwest coast of India.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Beesley PL, Ross GJB and Wells A (1998) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, p.451–563.

Finn JK (2009) Systematics and biology of the argonauts or ‘paper nautiluses’ (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae). PhD thesis, Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia.

Hanlon RT and Messenger JB (1996) Cephalopod Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Heeger T, Piatkowshi U and Moller H (1992) Predation of jellyfish by the cephalopods Argonauta argo. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 88 : 293-296

Iliffe TM (1982) Argonaut: Octopus in a parchment shell. Sea Frontiers. 28: 224-228.

Julian K and Normani MD (2014) The Argonaut shell: gas-mediated buoyancy control in a pelagic octopus. Proc. R. Soc. B. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org

Naef A (1923) Cephalopoda (systematics). Fauna and Flora of the Bay of Naples, Monograph 35, part 1, Vol. 1, pp. 293–917. Translated from German. Jerusalem, Israel: Israel Program for Scientific Translations.

Nixon M and Young JZ (2003) The brains and lives of cephalopods. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. In: Packard, A. and Wurtz, M. 1994. An octopus, Ocythoe, with a swim bladder and triple jets. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 344, 261–275.

Roper CFE, Sweeney MJ and Nauen CE (1984) FAO species catalogue, Vol.3, Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop., (125) 3 : 277 pp.

Silas EG, Sarevesan R, Rao KS, Nair KP and Meiyappan MM (1985) Cephalopod Fisheries of India - An introduction to the subject with methodologies adopted for this study. In: E. G. Silas (Ed.), Cephalopod bionomics, fisheries and resources of the Exclusive Economic Zone of India. Bull. Cent. Mar. Fis. Res. Inst., 37: 13-37.

Sukhasangchan C and Nabhitabhat J (2007) Embryonic Development of Muddy Paper Nautilus, Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786, from Andaman Sea, Thailand. Kasetsart J. Nat. Sci., 41: 531-538.

Sukhsangchana C, Meksumpuna S, Nabhitabhata J and Segawac S (2009. Distribution, biology and stomach contents of paper nautilus (Argonauta hians) in the Andaman Sea. Science Asia Vol 35: 315-319.

Thach NN (2005) Shells of Vietnam. 336 pp + 91 color plates.

Vaitheeswaran T, Jayakumar N and Venkataramani VK (2014) A record of brown paper nautilus Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786 (Family: Argonautidae) (Lamark, 1809), Thoothukudi coast of Gulf of Mannar from India (08º 35’ 22.5" N 78º 27’ 40.9" E and 08º 31’ 91.2"N 78º 25’ 32.7"E). Ind. J. Vet & Anim. Sci. Res. Vol: 43 (1) 40 – 43.

Voight JR, Portner HO and O’Dor RK (1994) A review of ammonia-mediated buoyancy in squids (Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea). In: Physiology of cephalopod molluscs. Lifestyle and performance adaption (Eds: Portner, H. O., R. K. O’Dor and D. L. Macmillan), pp. 193–203. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers S.A.

Voss OL and Williamson QR (1971) Cephalopods of Hong Kong. Government Press, Hongkong:138p.

Downloads

Published

2015-12-30

How to Cite

Sundaram Sujit, & Mane Sushant. (2015). Record of brown paper nautilus Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786 off Mumbai, northwest coast of India. International Journal of Life Sciences, 3(4), 392–394. Retrieved from https://ijlsci.in/ls/index.php/home/article/view/1264

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 (2015): International Journal of Life Sciences

Section

Short Communicaion

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Authors

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/