New records of Actiniarian sea anemones in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

摘要

The present paper provides the descriptive features of three newly recorded Actiniarian sea anemones Actinoporus elegans Carlgren, 1900, Heterodactyla hemprichii Ehrenberg, 1834, Thalassianthus aster Ruppell and Leuckart, 1828 from Indian waters and two newly recorded species Stichodactyla tapetum (Hemprich and Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834), Pelocoetes exul (Annandale, 1907) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This paper also accounts two genera, namely Heterodactyla and Thalassianthus as new records to India waters.