Dear Debasish 

The samples that you have posted , was living or fossil stage ? 

Best 

Aravinda 

The first one looks to me like piece of coral and second is definitely teeth of some fish. Both looks recent in age.

Debasish:

Kindly provide scale and method of collection of these specimens.

Best

Syed

Sir,

These specimens were collected during the low tide period of outer channel area of Chilika lake. The small specimen is hardly 3.5 cm and the large specimen is 14 cm .

These seems to be sea pens of family Penatulacae. There is possibilities of occurrence in outer channel of Chilika lagoon.

This is Sea pen (Pennatulacea). 

Never seen anything like that in Australia.

Thanks all for your kind informations

Sir please send me some relavant information on sea pen of family Penatulacae . Any book, pdf, monographs etc.

Definitely these are Sea Pen, I am agree with Dr. Anil Mohapatra and it is possibilities of occurrence in outer channel. Dr. please give me our mail id and I have some reference which I can share with you. (my id is [email protected])

Dear Dr. Prasad Chandra Tudu,

I feel very glad that you want to share me some of the information related to my study. My email id : [email protected]. So henceforth we can be contacted via email. Thanks a lot. Again i want to give you lots of thanks since, you and Dr. Anil Mohapatra have made significant contribution towards the field of marine Biodiversity.

Dear Debasish,

This is Cavernularia obesa belongs to the Order Pennatulacea and Family Veretillidae. I have also collected some specimens from Astarang FH, Odisha in the trawl by-catch. C. obesa have been described from the Bay of Bengal, Orissa coast, Palk Strait, Pulo Penang, northern part near Vankalli reef of the Gulf of Manaar, Cheval Paar, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal and the Digha Coast (Thomson & Henderson, 1905a; Thomson & Simpson, 1909; Tikadar et al., 1986; Goswami, 1992; Rao & Devi, 2003; Ramakrishna & Talukdar, 2003; Veena & Kaladharan, 2013).

With best regards,

Subal Kumar Roul

Mr. Subal Kumar Roul

let me know your email id:

and mobile number:

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With regards,

Subal Kumar Roul