He is engaged in studying taxonomy and community structure of demersal marine fauna along the coasts of Goa and Visakhapatnam, India. LALITA V. BARAGI obtained her MSc degree in Marine Sciences from Goa University in 2008 and is currently working as Project Assistant at the Marine Corrosion and Materials Research Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa. She is engaged in studying bio-fouling organisms, particularly barnacles. DR. CHANDRASHEKHER U. RIVONKER obtained PhD in Marine Sciences in 1992 from Goa University and has about 22 publications in referred journals. Presently Associate Professor, he is working in the area of Demersal fish diversity.Author Contribution: VPP carried out sampling for the study along the potential fishing grounds off Goa, followed by taxonomic identification of sea snakes and their seasonal distribution. LVB carried out the biological analyses including gut content analysis, reproduction and symbiotic associations. CUR planned, designed and participated in the field work and was instrumental in interpretation and discussion of the manuscript.

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An annotated checklist of the anomuran crustaceans recorded from Indian waters is compiled from available published literature. A total of 231 species belonging to 58 genera, 15 families and five superfamilies are listed. The highest number of species was seen in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Ecoregion (114 species, 37 genera, 14 families), followed by the South India Ecoregion (111 species, 41 genera, 14 families), West India Ecoregion (93 species, 36 genera, 14 families), Eastern India Ecoregion (76 species, 29 genera, 12 families), Maldives Ecoregion (34 species, 15 genera, 10 families) and Northern Bay of Bengal Ecoregion (22 species, nine genera, five families). Notes on the questionable identifications and records of some anomuran crabs are also provided.