BY- DEBARPITA PAUL

PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
 INTRODUCTION
 Foraminifera are members of a phylum or
class of amoeboid protists.
 Commonly an external shell or test of
diverse forms and materials.
 Most foraminifera are marine, the majority
of which live on or within the seafloor
sediment (i.e., are benthic).
 A smaller variety float in the water column
at various depths (i.e., are planktonic). Fewer
are known from freshwater or brackish
conditions.
LOCATION MAP
 SAMPLE COLLECTION
PROCEDURE
 On the basis of different environmental conditions,
different sites were selected for the collection of samples.
 Surface sediments were collected from these locations by
drawing 100 cm3 (10 cm * 10 cm* 1 cm) grid patterns in
different sampling locations.
 The sediment samples were collected with the help of a
trowel and then kept in wide mouthed plastic bottles.
 The rose bengal solution was added to it instantaneously
in the field itself.
 METHODOLOGY
INSTRUMENTS USED ~

REFLECTED
LIGHT

MICROSCOPE

SLIDE TRAY INSPECTION TRAY

PICKING
BRUSH
AGGLUGINATED FORAMINIFERA

Miliammina sp. Trochammina sp.

PORCELANEOUS FORAMINIFERA

Quinqueloculina sp.
 HYALINE FORAMINIFERA

Ammonia sp. Ammonia sp.

Ammonia sp. Nonionella sp.

 RESULTS
400

350

300

250

200

150 TOTAL FORAMINIFERA

LIVE FORMS
100

50

0
RANGBERIA MOLLAKHALI DULKI MOLLAKHALI
LOW MARSH GOBINDOPUR MIDDLE GOBINDOPUR
LOW MARSH MARSH MIDDLE
MARSH
FISHER’S ALPHA DIVERSITY INDEX

RANGABERIA
LOW MARSH
MOLLAKHALI
GOBINDOPUR LOW
MARSH
DULKI MIDDLE MARSH

MOLLAKHALI
GOBINDOPUR
MIDDLE MARSH
 INFERENCE
• The different forms of foraminifera found are
Ammonia sp., Quinqueloculina sp., Miliammina
sp., Nonionella sp. and Trochammina sp.(in
decreasing order of abundance).
• The most abundant form is Ammonia sp. found in
Dulki Middle Marsh.
• Least live forms are found in Mollakhali
Gobindopur Low Marsh .
• The number of live forms are greater in middle
marsh than in lower marsh.
 REFERENCE
• Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate
content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results
Oliver Heiri1, André F. Lotter1, 2 & Gerry Lemcke2, 3 1Geobotanical
Institute, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland
• Modern benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the world’s largest
deltaic mangrove ecosystem, the Sundarbans
Areen Sen & Moumita Ghosh & Pradnya Khanderao & Sunit Kumar Das &
Debmalya Roy Chowdhury & Pankaj Kumar Sarkar & Ratul Saha &
Punyasloke Bhadury