SANU V FRANCIS

Employment

• Mary Matha Arts & Science College Assistant Professor
  2022 - Present
• Cochin University of Science and Technology Post-Doc
  2020 - 2022
• Cochin University of Science and Technology Ph.D Research Scholar
  2013 - 2019
• National Institute of Oceanography CSIR Project Assistant II
  2011 - 2012

Education

• Cochin University of Science and Technology M.Sc. Marine Biology
  2008 - 2008
• Mary Matha Arts and Science College B.Sc.
  2005 - 2008

Projects & Funding

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Publications (33)

• DNA barcodes of Pontellid copepods based on mitochondrial COI sequences from Lakshadweep waters, South-eastern Arabian Sea
  Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries 2025
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• Prevalence of Epibiotic Ciliates on Crustacean Zooplankton in the Southeastern Arabian Sea
  Continental Shelf Research 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2025.105607
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• Copepods and diatoms: Classic examples of epibiosis along the southeastern Arabian Sea
  Regional Studies in Marine Science 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103806
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• Taxonomic description of the male Tortanus (Atortus) murrayi Scott A., 1909 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Tortanidae) from the Great Nicobar Island, Indian Ocean
  Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.56042/ijms.v52i06.8352
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• Taxonomic Revision of Epiphytic Copepod Metis Jousseaumei Richard, 1892 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Metidae) From Kavaratti Island Southeastern Arabian Sea
  Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s41208-022-00417-5
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• Vampyrophrya pelagica (Chatton and Lwoff 1930), an apostome ciliate infectious on calanoid copepod from the Northeastern Arabian Sea
  The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology 2022 DOI: 10.1186/s41936-022-00306-6
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• A new species of Tortanus (Atortus) Ohtsuka, 1992 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Tortanidae) from Great Nicobar Island, north-eastern Indian Ocean
  Nauplius 2022 DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2022021
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• First report of an epibiontic diatom Protoraphis hustedtiana R. Simonsen, 1970 (Protoraphidaceae) in association with copepod Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 from northern coastal waters of Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
  Marine Biology Research 2022 DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2022.2119250
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• Redescription of poorly known neustonic calanoid copepod Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 (Family: Pontellidae) from the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
  Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences 2021
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• First report of marine epizoic diatom, Protoraphis atlantica (Protoraphidaceae) on calanoid copepods along the southeastern Arabian Sea
  Symbiosis 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s13199-021-00772-6
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