Incursion of killer sponge Terpios hoshinota on the coral reefs of Lakshadweep archipelago

Our study documents the outbreak of killer sponge Terpios hoshinota on the coral reefs of Lakshadweep archipelago and highlights that the killer sponge has further extended its territory in the isolated atolls of the Indian subcontinent.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2019-04-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1101/617662
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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