Estuarine Foraminifera from the Gulf of Cambay

Authors: Anupam Ghosh

Publish Date: 2012/07/26

Volume: 80, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-74

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Abstract

A low diversity epifaunal to infaunal Foraminiferal assemblage widely distributed in sand flats mud flats and marshes along the coastal tracts of the Gulf of Cambay It is dominated by the species of Ammonia Rotalidium Murrayinella Haynesina Quinqueloculina Nonionella Florilus Elphidium Trochammina and Miliammina A triserial planktonic foraminifer Gallitellia vivans an indicator of stressed and upwelling areas is also characteristically present in the sediments of the estuaries The paper discusses the systematics and distribution of the Foraminiferal species in the macrotidal estuaries of the Gulf of Cambay

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