Biotechnological potential of marine actinobacteria: Screening for
antimicrobials and industrial enzymes of manglicolous actinobacteria

Abstract :

A total of 16 rivers of which 7 rivers from Karnataka and 9 rivers from Kerala were studied for a period ranging from November 2009 to December 2010. A total of 20 species belonging to 3 families Unionidae, Etheridae and Corbiculidae of the Class Bivalvia have been recorded. Maximum numbers of species were from family Unionidae, of which the genera Lamellidens Simpson, 1900 and Parreysia Conrad, 1853 were dominant. In the present study we have also found one of the most unique and rare bivalve Pseudomulleria dalyi E.A. Smith, 1898 from the Western Ghats of Karnataka.