Check List 10(2): 329-334, doi: 10.15560/10.2.329
True mangrove species of Sundarbans Delta, West Bengal, eastern India
Jyotiskona Barik‡, Soumyajit Chowdhury§‡ Jadavpur University, India§ Centre for Biodiversity and Ecological Studies, India
Corresponding author: Jyotiskona Barik ( bjyotiskona@gmail.com ) © 2017 Jyotiskona Barik, Soumyajit Chowdhury. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Barik J, Chowdhury S (2014) True mangrove species of Sundarbans Delta, West Bengal, eastern India. Check List 10(2): 329-334. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.2.329 |  |
Abstract
Varied opinions exist as to the species composition and ecological distinction of mangrove habitats of the Indian Sundarbans. Furthermore, distinction of true or major mangroves from mangrove-associate and minor species was left unresolved by past authors. The present study thus aimed to revise a species list of true mangroves in the Indian Sundarbans delta. An indexing of adaptive morpho-physiological characters of mangroves for the tidal-saline environment was conducted. The analysis illustrated 24 species of true mangroves in Indian Sundarbans, belonging to nine families. Of these, Rhizophoraceae showed maximum richness at each of the generic and specific categories assessed. The current study has highlighted the taxonomic richness and status of true mangrove from Indian Sundarbans, resolving the long debated distinction of true from minor and associate mangroves.
Keywords
Mangroves; inventory; Bengal; India; Rhizophoraceae