Compendium of Biota - The Tree of Life

The Compendium of biota of the Bay of Bengal is classified with the taxonomic system of Cavalier-Smith (1998, 2004). Each table page of the Compendium represents a taxon node in the tree of life. A page includes the single path of nodes to the root of the classification, and a table of child nodes. All taxon nodes are links to their respective pages. Click on lower ranking taxa to extend the table towards the bottom of the tree. The tree bottom contains additional information particular to species, such as authority, references and contributors.

Table colums can be sorted alphabetically up or down by clicking on column headers.

Item count: 6358
Superkingdom Kingdom Phylum Subphylum Class Subclass Order Suborder Family Genus Species Subspecies Host species Occurrence Authority References Contributorssort descending
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Parribacus antarcticus Mandapam (Lund, 1793)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Biarctus sordidus Mandapam (Stimpson, 1860)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Chelarctus cultrifer East coast of India (Ortmann, 1897)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Eduarctus martensii Visakhapatnam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Pfeffer, 1881)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Petrarctus rugosus East coast, Andaman & Nicobar Islands (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Scammarctus batei batei Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Holthuis, 1946)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Thenus indicus Orissa to Gulf of Mannar & Leach, 1816
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Polychelidae Pentacheles gibbus Andaman Sea Alcock, 1894
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Polychelidae Pentacheles obscurus Bay of Bengal Bate, 1878
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Polychelidae Polycheles typhlops Andaman Sea Heller, 1862
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Polychelidae Stereomastis cerata Andaman Sea (Alcock, 1894)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Polychelidae Stereomastis phosphorus Andaman Sea (Alcock, 1894)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Polychelidae Stereomastis sculpta Andaman Sea (Smith, 1880)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Callianassidae Calllanassa lignicola Andaman Sea Alcock and Anderson, 1894
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Callianassidae Callianassa maxima Lake Chilika & Chennai A. Milne Edwards, 1870
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Callianassidae Gebicula exigua Andaman Sea Alcock, 1901
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Eurysquillidae Manningia andamanensis North Andamans Ghosh, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Gonodactylidae Gonodactylaceus falcatus Mandapam, Rameswaeam, Sandheads, North Andamans (Fabricius, 1775)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Gonodactylidae Gonodactylaceus glabrous Pamban, Kilakarai, Tuticorin, Andaman & Nicobar (Brooks, 1886)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Gonodactylidae Gonodactylus chiragra Andamans (Fabricius, 1781)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Gonodactylidae Gonodactylus demani Tuticorin, Mandapam, Rameswaram, Kilakarai, Chennai Henderson, 1893
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Gonodactylidae Gonodactylus platysoma Andamans Wood-Mason, 1895
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Gonodactylidae Gonodactylus smithii Southeast coast (Pocock, 1893)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Odontodactylidae Odontodactylus brevirostris Andaman (Miers, 1884)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Odontodactylidae Odontodactylus latirostris Cinque and Interview Islands in, Andamans Borradaile, 1907
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Chorisquilla andamanica Coco group of Islands, , Table Island & Littile Andaman Manning, 1975
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Chorisquilla excavata Coco & Table Islands, Littile Andaman (Miers, 1880)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Chorisquilla gyrosa Andamans (Odhner, 1823)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Haptosquilla glyptocercus Andaman & Nicobar (Wood-Mason, 1875)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Haptosquilla lenzi North Andamans (Holthuis, 1941)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Haptosquilla pulchella Tuticorin, Mandapam, Chennai, Sandheads (Miers, 1880)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Protosquillidae Haptosquilla tuberosa Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Pocock, 1893)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Pseudosquillidae Pseudosquilla ciliata Kilakarai, Sandheads, Andaman (Fabricius, 1787)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Lysiosquillidae Lysiosquilla maculata Kakinada, Parangipettai, Chennai, A & N Islands (Fabricius, 1793)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Lysiosquillidae Lysiosquilla sulcirostris Chennai, Sandheads, Andaman Kemp, 1913
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Lysiosquillidae Lysiosquilla tredecimdentata Tuticorin, Pamban, Mandapam, Chennai, Kakinada, Andamans Holthuis, 1941
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Nanosquillidae Acanthosquilla acanthocarpus Kilakarai, Mandapam, Chennai., Parangipettai, Kakinada, Sandheads, Port Blair (Miers, 1880)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Nanosquillidae Acanthosquilla dighaensis Digha Ghosh, 1999
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Nanosquillidae Acanthosquilla multifasciata Chennai, Sundarbans, Andamans (Wood-Mason, 1895)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Nanosquillidae Acanthosquilla tigrina Parangipettai, Chennai (Nobili, 1903)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Tetrasquilliae Heterosquilla tricarinata Port Blair, Andaman (Claus, 1871)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Tetrasquilliae Heterosquilloides insignis Off North Andaman Islands (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Alima heteroglypica Chennai (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Anchisquilla fasciata Mandapam, Parangipettai (De Haan, 1849)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Areosquilla indica Octovia Bay, Nancowry Harbour, Nicobars (Hanse, 1926)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Carinosquilla lirata Chennai, Sandheads (Kemp & Chopra, 1921)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Carinosquilla multicarinata Pamban, Mandapam, Kilakarai, Parangipettai, Sundarbans (White, 1848)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Clorida decorata Port Blair, Andaman (Wood-Mason, 1875)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Clorida latreillei Parangipeetai, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Orissa coast, Sandhead (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1841)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Clorida microphthalma Mandapam, Chennai (H.M. Edwards, 1837)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Cloridina verrucosa Chennai (Hansen, 1926)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Cloridopsis bengalensis Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Salt Lake (Tiwari & Biswas, 1952)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Cloridopsis immaculata Lake Chilkia, Hugli and , Matlah estuaries, Port Canning, Sagar Island (Kemp, 1913)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Cloridopsis scorpio Chennai, Tuticorin, Puducherry, Lake Chilikia, Sundarbans (Latreille, 1826)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Dictyosquilla foveolata Parangipettai, Sandheads (Wood-Mason, 1895)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Erugosquilla woodmasoni Colachel, Tuticorin, Mandapam, , Pamban, Rameswaram, , Parangipettai, Puducherry, Chennai, Puri, Sandheads (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Harpiosquilla annandalei Parangipettai, Chennai, , Visakhapatnam, Sandheads (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Harpiosquilla harpax Chennai, Tuticorin, Mandapam, Rameswaram, Visakhapatnam (De Haan, 1844)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Harpiosquilla indica Mandapam Camp Manning, 1969
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Harpiosquilla melanoura Parangipettai Manning, 1968
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Harpiosquilla raphidea Krusadai Island, Pamban, Parangipettai, Chennai, Puducherry, Puri, Gopalpur, Sundarbans (Fabricius, 1798)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Kempina stridulans Nellore, Machilipatnam, Orissa (Wood-Mason, 1895)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Lenisquilla gilesi Chennai, Orissa, Sandheads (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Lenisquilla lata Chennai (Brooks, 1886)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Leptosquilla schmeltzii Port Blair, Andamans (A.M. Edwards, 1873)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Leptosquilla sulcirostris Southeast coast, Andamans (Kemp, 1913)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Lophosquilla tiwarii Parangipettai, off Orissa Blumstein, 1974
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Miyakea holoschista Cape Comorin, Ramaeswaram, Parangipettai, Cuddalaore, , Chennai, Mahanadi estuary, , Sandheads (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Miyakea nepa Tuticorin, Mandapam, Rameswaram, Kilakarai, Parangipettai, Cuddalore, , Chennai, Puducherry, Visakhapatnam, , Mahanadi estuary, Puri, Sandheads, , Sundarbans (Latreille, 1828)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquilla hindustanica Tuticorin & Chennai Manning, 1978
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquilla quadraticauda Chennai (Fukada, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquilla subtilis Visakhapatnam (Manning, 1978)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquillina inornata Tuticorin, Mandapam, Pamban, Sandheads (Tate, 1883)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquillina interrupta Mandapam, Parangipettai, Chennai, Puri, Mahanadi estuary, Sundarbans (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquillina pentadactyla Kilakarai (Manning, 1978)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquillina perppensa Tuticorin, Kilakarai, Parangipettai, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Mahanadi, estuary, Sandheads, Port Blair (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Oratosquillina quinquedentata Kilakarai, Tuticorin, Mandapam, Parangipettai, Chennai, Balabore, Bay, Orissa (Brooks, 1886)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Quollastria gonypetes Parangipettai, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Andamans (Kemp, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Squilloides leptosquilla Andaman & Nicobar (Brooks, 1886)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Eumalacostraca Stomatopoda Unipellata Squillidae Squilloides tenuispinis Nellore, Machilipatnam, Ganjam, coast, Andaman Islands (Wood-Mason, 1875)
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bivesicula australis n/a Marine fish Andamans Crowcroft, 1947
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Paucivitellosus hanumanthai Mugil cephhalus Visakhapatnam Mani, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Alcicornis carangis Carangoides , malabaricus , C. chrysophrys Visakhapatnam, Kalingapatnam MacCallum , 1917
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Alcicornis hemiramphi Dermogenys, brachinopterus Puri Gupta & Tandon, 1983
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Alcicornis jairajpuri Eupleurogrammus muticus Puri Gupta & Gupta, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Alcicornis multidactylus Caesio coerulureus , Zonichthys microfasciatus Visakhapatnam Madhavi, 1974
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Alcicornis scomberi Rastrelliger kanagurta Puri Gupta & Ahmad , 1964
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Bucephalus barina Scatophagus argus , Pennahea anea , Johnius dussumieri , J. carutta , J. belengeri , J. soladdo, Otolithus ruber Visakhapatnam, Kalingapatnam Srivastava, 1938
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Bucephalus jagannathai Scomberomorus guttatus Puri Verma, 1936
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Bucephalus margaritae Terapon jarbua , Pomadasys maculatus , Caranx sexfasciatus , Decapterus russelli , Carangoides malabaricus, C. chrysophrys, Psenes indicus, Zonichthys microfasciatus, Polynemus plebeius Visakhapatnam, Kalingapatnam Ozaki & Ishibashi, 1934
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Bucephalus uranoscopi Uranoscopus guttatus Visakhapatnam Yamaguti, 1934
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae B. yamagutii n/a Carangoides malabaricus Puri Gupta & Singh, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Prosorhynchoides chorinemi Scomberoides lysan Puri Gupta & Ahmad, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Prosorhynchoides microcirrus Scomberomorus guttatus , S. lineatus Visakhapatnam, Kalingapatnam Chauhan, 1943
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Prosorhynchoides pritchardae Scomberoides lysan Puri Govind, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Prosorhynchoides thapari Scomberoides lysan Puri Gupta & Singh, 1985
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Rhipidocotyle capitata Auxis thazard Visakhapatnam Linton, 1940
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Rhipidocotyle ghanensis Psettodes erumei Visakhapatnam, Kalingapatnam Fischthal & Thomas, 1968
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Rhipidocotyle indicus Cynoglossus lida Puri Gupta & Ahmad, 1976
Eukaryota Animalia Platyhelminthes Trematoda Digenea Bucephalidae Rhipidocotyle karthai Psettodes erumei Visakhapatnam Hafeezullah & Siddiqi, 1970

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