Check List 11(2): e19207, doi: 10.15560/11.2.1609
Checklist of cnidarians from Pakistani waters
Shahnawaz Gul‡, André Carrara Morandini§, Vreni Häussermann|, Ulrich Pörschmann¶‡ Jamia Millia Governemnt Degree College, Pakistan§ Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso; Huinay Scientific Field Station, Chile¶ Huinay Scientific Field Station, Chile
Corresponding author: André Morandini ( acmorand@ib.usp.br ) © 2017 Shahnawaz Gul, André Morandini, Vreni Häussermann, Ulrich Pörschmann. 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:
Morandini A, Gul S, Haussermann V, Pörschmann U (2015) Checklist of cnidarians from Pakistani waters. Check List 11(2): 1609. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.2.1609 |  |
Abstract
We present a species list of the marine cnidarians recorded from the Pakistani waters, northern Arabian Sea. It comprises a total of 119 species distributed in 41 families, 14 orders and 4 classes. With 44 species, the order Scleractinia (class Anthozoa) is the best-represented cnidarian taxon. Cnidarians from Pakistan are a poorly studied group which is mentioned in few occasional papers; no new species have been described from the region. The present paper will provide baseline information for future studies in Pakistan.
Keywords
author. E-mail: gulshahnawaz@yahoo.com Abstract: Key words: Anthozoa; Cubozoa; Hydrozoa; Scyphozoa; northern Arabian Sea