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
Superkingdomsort descending Kingdom Phylum Subphylum Class Subclass Order Suborder Family Genus Species Subspecies Occurrence Authority References Contributors
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 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 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 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 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 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 Aristomorpha woodmasoni Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea Calman, 1925
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)

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