Shazia Rasheed , Azra Bano , Muhummad Rashid , Abdul Latif

Department of Marine Sciences, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Waters and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Balochistan, Pakistan
Author    Correspondence author
International Journal of Marine Science, 2019, Vol. 9, No. 1   
Received: 01 Jan., 1970    Accepted: 01 Jan., 1970    Published: 12 Mar., 2019

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This paper deals preliminary study of plankton in Sonmiani, Balochistan waters. Copepods were the highest dominant group, about 23.68 % of total catch. Next highly occurring groups were Ceratium spp. (dinoflagellates) and eggs were about 20.36 % of each.  Diatoms found only 2% while chaetoganatha and jelly fish were found markedly very low in percentage (0.69%) during present investigations. According to Simpson diversity index site 1 was less in richness and site 3 was much higher in richness.

 

Plankton; Diatom; Ceratium; Balochistan

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