“…Studies of meiofauna in the mangrove have been conducted in India (e.g., Krishnamurthy, Sultan Ali, Jeyaseelan, 1984;Ansari, Sreepada, Matondka, Parulekar, 1993;Kondalarao, 1983;Sarma, Wilsanand, 1994;Thilagavathi, Das, Saravanakumar, Raja, 2011), Australia (Hodda, Nicholas, 1985;Alongi, 1987aAlongi, , b, c, 1988Alongi, , 1990Alongi, Christoffersen, 1992;Abdullah, Lee, 2017), South Africa, Kenya and associated area (Dye, 1983a, b;Ólafsson, 1995;Ólafsson, Carlström, Ndaro, 2000;Mutua, 2013), Malaysia (Sasekumar, 1994;Somerfield, 1998;Gee, Somerfield, 1997), America (Hopper, Fell, Cefalu, 1973;Fell, Cefalu, Masters, Tallman, 1975), Caribbean islands (Armenteros et al, 2006) etc.…”