Research Article

Habitat Preference and Population Ecology of Limpets Cellana karachiensis (Winckworth) and Siphonaria siphonaria (Sowerby) at Veraval Coast of Kathiawar Peninsula, India

Table 2

Results of the one way ANOVA for the spatial and temporal variations in the abundance values of the species studied in each of the littoral zone of the five microsampling sites.

ā€‰SprayUpperMiddleLower

Spatial variation (-critical: 2.6896)
Cellana karachiensis 14.961*10.245*84.399*0
Siphonaria siphonaria 57.162*27.272*11.337*23.153*

Temporal variation (-critical: 2.4453)
Cellana karachiensis 0.01480.02340.09750
Siphonaria siphonaria 0.00430.01060.02440.003

The * sign denotes significance at P < 5%.