Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

Occurrence of ragged sea hare, Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Aplysiidae) from Vellar Estuary, Tamil Nadu, India

Reslin Berlin Chryso, Sivakumar Ragul^♦

Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, 608502, Tamil Nadu, India

^♦Corresponding author
Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, 608502, Tamil Nadu, India

ABSTRACT

This paper documents a new record of Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 from Vellar estuary, Parangipettai, South-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu. Eight specimens of Bursatella leachii with standard length (SL) of 43.48-55.92 mm and weight of 20.9-26.2g were collected at Vellar estuary, Parangipettai, during June 2021 - July 2022. The present record of this species from estuarine waters of Tamil Nadu, India expands and confirms the known distribution of Bursatella leachii, previously reported from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Greece, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malta, Marshall Island, Mozambique, Panama, Philippines, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey and United Kingdom.

Keywords: Ragged Sea Hare, Vellar estuary, South east coast of India

Species, 2023, 24(73), e49s1544

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e49s1544

Published: 9 June 2023