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 Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Palinustus waguensis Southeast coast of India & Nicobars Kubo, 1963
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Panulirus homarus homarus Visakhapatnam to Cape Comorin & Nicobars (Linnaeus, 1758)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Panulirus longipes longipes Chennai, Mandapam & Port Blair (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Panulirus ornatus East coast of India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Fabricius, 1798)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Panulirus penicillatus Chennai, Mandapam & Port Blair (Olivier, 1791)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Panulirus polyphagus Visakhapatnam to Cape Comorin & Port Blair (Herbst, 1793)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Panulirus versicolor Visakhapatnam to Cape Comorin, , Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Latreille, 1804)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Puerulus angulatus Off Great Nicobar Island (Bate, 1888)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Palinuridae Puerulus sewelli Andhra to Gulf of Mannar Ramadan, 1938
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 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 Parribacus antarcticus Mandapam (Lund, 1793)
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 Scyllarides tridacnophaga Mandapam Holthuis, 1967
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Macrura Reptantia Scyllaridae Thenus indicus Orissa to Gulf of Mannar & Leach, 1816
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Coenobitidae Birgus latro South Sentinel Island, Andaman (Linnaeus, 1767)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Coenobitidae Coenobita cavipes Hugli River mouth to Gulf of Mannar, Andamans and Nicobars Stimpson, 1858
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Coenobitidae Coenobita perlatus Andamans and Nicobars H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Coenobitidae Coenobita rugosus Lake Chilika to Gulf of Mannar, Andamans and Nicobars H. Milne Edwards, 1837
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Coenobitidae Coenobita violascens Chennai Heller, 1862
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Aniculus ursus Tuticorin (Olivier, 1811)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Bathynarius albicinctus Off Cape Comorin (Alcock, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Calcinus gaimardi Andamans and F93 Nicobars H. Milne Edwards, 1848
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Calcinus laevimanus Palk Bay, Gulf of Mannar, Andamans (Randall, 1840)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Calcinus latens Andamans (Randall, 1840)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Ciliopagurus kremfi Tuticorin, Andamans (Forest, 1952)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Ciliopagurus strigatus Tuticorin, Andamans (Herbst, 1804)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Ciliopagurus tenebrarum Cape Comorin (Alcock, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius arethusa Visakhapatnam to Gulf of Mannar De Man, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius clibanarius Mouth of Hugli to Cuddalore (Herbst, 1791)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius corallinus Andamans and Nicobars H. Milne Edwards, 1848
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius infraspinatus Hugli River to Gulf of Mannar (Hilgendorf, 1869)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius longitarsus Lake Chilika to Gulf of Mannar (De Haan, 1849)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius merguiensis Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar De Man, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius olivaceus Mouth of Hugli to Vellar estuary, Andamans Henderson, 1915
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius padavenis Hugli-Matla estuaries to Gulf of Mannar De Man, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Clibanarius zebra Krusadai Island in Gulf of Mannar Dana, 1852
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus deformis Gulf of Mannar, Andamans, Nicobars H. Milne Edwards, 1836
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus gemmatus Visakhapatnam (H. Milne Edwards, 1848)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus hessii Sandheads to Gulf of Mannar (Miers, 1884)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus lagopodes Andamans (Forskal, 1775)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus megistos Parangipettai, Krusadai Island (Herbst, 1804)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus pedunculatus Visakhapatnam, off Mandapam, Andamans (Herbst, 1804)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus setifer Kakinada to Gulf of Mannar (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus tinctorr Chennai (Forskal, 1775)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus vulnerans off Coromandel coast (Thallawittz, 1890)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Dardanus woodmasoni Andamans (Alcock, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes alias Sandheads to Gulf of Mannar, Nicobars McLaughlin & Holthuis, 2001
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes avarus Hugli River mouth to Gulf of Mannar, Nicobars Heller, 1865
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes bicristimanu Ganjam coast to Gulf of Mannar Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes costatus Sandheads to Gulf of Mannar Henderson, 1893
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes custos Sandheads to Gulf of Mannar, Andamans (Fabricius, 1798)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes investigatori Sagar Island to Gulf of Mannar Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes mannerensis Gulf of Mannar (Henderson, 1893)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes merguiensis Orissa coast to Gulf of Mannar De Man, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes miles Orissa coast to Gulf of Mannar (Fabricius, 1787)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes planimanus Sandheads to Rameswaram Henderson, 1893
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes rectimanus Orissa coasat, Chennai Miers, 1884
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes violaceus Visakhapatnam, Chennai Henderson, 1893
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Diogenes waltairensis Visakhapatnam Kamalveni, 1950
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes balanophilus Andamans Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes calvus Northern part of Bay of Bengal, north-east of Little Andaman Island Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes ciliatus Northern part of Bay of Bengal (Heller, 1861)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes incomitatus Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes longirostris Off Ganjam coast, Visakhapatnam, Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Dana, 1951
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes mundus Off Port Blair, Andamans Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguristes puniceus Chennai, Andamans Henderson, 1896
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Paguropsis typica Off Cape Comorin Henderson, 1888
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Diogenidae Pseudopaguristes hians Off Ganjam coast (Henderson, 1888)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Anapagurus laevis Visakhapatnam (Bell, 1846)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Nematopagurus squamicheli Andamans Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pagurus carpoforaminatus Orissa coast, Ganjam coast, Visakhapatnam Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pagurus hirtimanus Andamans (Miers, 1880)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pagurus indicus Visakhapatnam Sarojini & Nagabhushanam, 1972
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pagurus pergranulatus Andamans (Henderson, 1896)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pagurus punctulatus Gulf of Mannar and Andamans Olivier, 1811
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pagurus varipes Tuticorin Heller, 1861
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pylopaguropsis magnimanus Oriisa coast, Ganjam coaat, Pulicat Henderson, 1896
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Pylopaguropsis zebra Andamans (Henderson, 1893)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Spiropagurus lophomeris Andamans Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Spiropagurus profundorum Andaman Sea Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Spiropagurus spinocarpis Chennai, Andamans Alcock, 1905
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Paguridae Spiropagurus spiriger Sandheads to Parangipettai (De Haan, 1849)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Parapaguridae Oncopagurus bicristatus Andaman Sea A. Milne Edwards, 1880
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Parapaguridae Oncopagurus indicus Andaman Sea (Alcock, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Parapaguridae Oncopagurus monstrosus Off Cape Comorin, Coromandel coast (Alcock, 1905)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Parapaguridae Parapagurus pilosimanus Off Cape Comorin, Bay of Bengal Smith, 1879
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Parapaguridae Sympagurus andersoni Off Cape Comorin (Henderson, 1896)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Pylochelidae Parapylocheles scorpio Andaman Sea (Alcock, 1894)
Eukaryota Animalia Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca Decapoda Pleocyemata Pylochelidae Xylocheles miersii Andamans (Alcock & Anderson, 1899)
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)

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