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.

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Item count: 6358
Superkingdom Kingdomsort descending Phylum Subphylum Class Subclass Order Suborder Family Genus Species Subspecies Occurrence Authority References Contributors
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Linhomoeidae Terschellingia gourbaultae Austen, 1989
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Linhomoeidae Terschellingia longicaudata De Man, 1907
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Linhomoeidae Terschellingia mora Gerlach, 1954
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Ascolaimus elongatus Butschli, 1874
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Axonolaimus paraspinosus Stekhoven and Adam, 1931
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Axonolaimus spinosus Butschli, 1874
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Axonolaimus hexapilus Wieser and Hopper, 1967
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Axonolaimus typicus De Man, 1922
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Odontophora villoti Luc and De Coninck, 1959
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Odontophora furcata Butschli, 1874
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Odontophoroides paramonhystera Lambshead, 1982
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Parodontophora brevamphida Timm, 1963
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Axonolaimidae Parodontophora breviseta Timm, 1964
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Diplopeltidae Araeolaimus longicauda Allgen, 1929
Eukaryota Animalia Nematoda Adenophorea Monhysterida Diplopeltidae Campylaimus levfrei Gerlach, 1956
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Aristomorpha woodmasoni Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea Calman, 1925
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Aristaeopsis edwardsiana Gulf of Mannar, off Chennai, Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea (Johnson, 1867)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Aristeus alcocki West Bengal to Cape Comorin along east coast of India Ramadan, 1938
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Aristeus virilis Bay of Bengal (Bate, 1881)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Hemipenaeus carpentari Bay of Bengal Wood-Mason, 1891
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Plesiopenaeus armatus Bay of Bengal (Bate, 1881)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Plesiopenaeus coruscans Andamans (Wood-Mason, 1891)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Pseudaristeus crassipes off Cape Comorin, Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea (Wood-Mason, 1891)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Aristeidae Pseudaristeus protensus Bay of Bengal Perez Farfante, 1987
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Benthesicymus investigatoris Gulf of Mannar and Andaman Sea (Alcock & Anderson, 1899
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas alcocki Off Cape Comorin, Off Ongole, west of Middle Andaman Islands and east of Little Andaman Island Kemp, 1910
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas bouvieri Bay of Bengal Kemp, 1909
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas carinatus off Cape Comorin (Smith, 1882)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas parvus Bay of Bengal (Bate, 1881)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas praecox off Cape Comorin Kemp, 1910
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas propinquus off Cape Comorin, Bay of Bengal Rathbun, 1906
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Benthesicymidae Gennadas scutatus off Cape Comorin Bouvier, 1906
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Atypopeneus compressipes Chennai (Henderson, 1893)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Atypopeneus stenodactylus Cuddalore (Stimpson, 1860)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Fenneropenaeus indicus Along east coast of India and Andamans H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Fenneropenaeus merguiensis Along east coast of India and Andamans De Man, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Fenneropenaeus penicillatus Hugli-Matlah estuaries, Sandheads down to Kakinada and Godavari estuary Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Funchalia villosa Andamans (Bouvier, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Litopenaeus vannamei Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh (Boone, 1931)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Marsupenaeus japonicus Along east coast of India and Andamans Bate, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Megokris granulosus Chennai and Kakinada (Haswell, 1879)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Megokris pescadoreensis Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar (Schmitt, 1931)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Megokris sedili Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar (Hall, 1961)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Melicertus canaliculatus Along east coast of India and Andamans (Olivier, 1811)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Melicertus latisulcatus Machilipatnam down to Gulf of Mannar and Port Blair Kishinouye, 1896
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis andamanensis Puducherry down to Cape Comorin and Andaman Sea (Wood-Mason, 1891)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis barbata Chennai, Cuddalore, Kakinada and Visakhapatnam (De Haan, 1844)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis ceylonica Kakinada Starobogatov, 1972
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis coniger Machilipatnam, Kalingapatnam, Nellore, Chennai and Andamans (Wood-Mason, 1891)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis gallensis Chennai (Pearson, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis hilarula Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar (De Man, 1911)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis mogiensis consobrina Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar and Andaman Sea (Nobili, 1904)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis palmensis Port Blair (Haswell, 1879)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis stridulans Paradeeep down to Gulf of Mannar, Andamans (Alcock, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeopsis tolensis Chennai Hall, 1962
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus affinis Hugli-Matlah estuaries down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus baramensis Corbyn’s Bay near Port Blair Hall, 1962
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus brevicornis Hugli-Matlah estuaries down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus dobsoni Hugli-Matlah estuaries down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans (Miers, 1878)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus elegans Chauldari in Andamans De Man, 1907
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus ensis Sandheads down to Chennai and Andamans (De Haan, 1844)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus intermedius Port Blair (Kishinouye, 1900)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus krishnatrii Corbyn;s Cove near Port Blair Silas and Muthu, 1976a
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus kutchensis Hugli-Matlah estuaries and Sandheads George, George & Rao, 1963
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus lysianassa Sandheads down Gulf of Mannar (De Man, 1888)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus monoceros Sandheads down Gulf of Mannar (Fabricius, 1798)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Metapenaeus moyebi Chennai down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans (Kishinouye, 1896)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis acclivirostris Orissa down to Gulf of Mannar Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis cornuta Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans (Kishinouye, 1900)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis cultirostris Ganjam coast, Orissa coast and Sandheads Alcock, 1906
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis hardwickii Orissa down to Puducherry (Miers, 1878)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis indica Kakinada De Man, 1907
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis maxillipedo Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar Alcock, 1906
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis nana Orissa down to Chennai Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis sculptilis Sandheads down to Cuddalore (Heller, 1862)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis stylifera coromandelica Sandheads down to Cuddalore and Port Blair Alcock, 1906
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis stylifera stylifera Hugli-Matlah estuaries down to Gulf of Mannar and Port Blair (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis tenella Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar (Bate, 1888)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeopsis uncta Ganjam coast down to Gulf of Mannar Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeus fissurus Ganjam coast and Andamans (Bate, 1888)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeus investigatoris Off Coromandel coast, Gulf of Mannar, Bay of Bengal and Andamans Alcock & Anderson, 1899
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Parapenaeus longipes Sandheads down to Cuddalore Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Penaeopsis jerryi off Pulicat, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea Perez Farfante, 1979
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Penaeus monodon Sandheads down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans Fabricius, 1798
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Penaeus semisulcatus Puri down to Gulf of Mannar and Andamans De Haan, 1844
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Trachysalambria aspera Ganjam coast down to Chennai and Andamans (Alcock, 1906)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Trachysalambria curvirostris Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar (Stimpson, 1860)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Penaeidae Trachysalambria fulva Chennai and Port Blair (Dall, 1957)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Sicyoniidae Sicyonia lancifer Visakhapatnam down to Gulf of Mannar (Olivier, 1811)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Sicyoniidae Sicyonia parajaponica Chennai Crosnier
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Haliporus microps Bay of Bengal, near the Andaman (Smith, 1884)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Haliporus taprobanensis off Gulf of Mannar and off Cape Comorin (Alcock & Anderson, 1899)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Hymenopenaeus equalis off Parangipettai, off Nellore, and Andaman Sea (Bate, 1888)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Hymenopenaeus neptunus Bay of Bengal (Bate, 1881)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Solenocera annectens Andaman Sea off South Island (Wood-Mason, 1891)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Solenocera choprai Chennai and Cuddalore Nataraj, 1945
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Solenocera crassicornis Sandhead down Gulf of Mannar (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Solenocera hextii Sandhead down Gulf of Mannar Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Solenocera melantho Sandhead down to Kakinada De Man, 1907
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Hoplocarida Decapoda Dendrobranchiata Solenoceridae Solenocera pectinata Kakinada, Visakhapatnam and Andamans (Bate, 1888)

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