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Morphological characteristics of pinna bicolor gmelin and pinna deltodes menke from the seagrass bed of Sungai Pulai, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia


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Idris, Mohd Hanafi and Arshad, Aziz and Bujang, Japar Sidik and Abd. Ghaffar, Mazlan and Daud, Siti Khalijah (2009) Morphological characteristics of pinna bicolor gmelin and pinna deltodes menke from the seagrass bed of Sungai Pulai, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia. Sains Malaysiana, 38 (3). pp. 333-339. ISSN 0126-6039

Abstract

Samples of Pinna bicolor Gmelin and Pinna deltodes Menke were collected from the seagrass bed of Sungai Pulai, covering Merambong shoal, Tanjung Adang shoal and Merambong Island off south western coast of Johor, Malaysia for morphological study from August 2005 to June 2006. It was observed that P. deltodes is associated with hard substratum and P. bicolor is associated with soft substratum in the study area. Physically there was no difference between P. bicolor and P. deltodes. The species were identified on the basis of nine internal and external characteristics of the valves. The two species were found to be morphologically different on the basis of width of sulcus, distance between posterior adductor muscle to posterior dorsal nacreous layer, dorsal posterior margin length and shell width.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
Keywords: Distribution; Morphometric analysis; Pinna spp.; Taxonomy; Seagrass.
Depositing User: Norhazura Hamzah
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2013 04:20
Last Modified: 30 Jun 2016 03:05
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15733
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