Dr. T.T. Ajith Kumar

Senior Scientist
Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India

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https://livedna.org/91.9968

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Biography

Dr. T. T. Ajith Kumar is currently working as Senior Scientist at Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Marine Biology from same Institute. He has 14 years work experience. His current area of research related to Ornamental Aquaculture. His area of expertise includes Development of Hatchery Technologies for Marine Ornamentals Livelihood Development of costal & Island Community, Value Addition to Hatchery Bred Ornamentals. Dr. T. T. Ajith received honor includes Eureka Forbes Young Scientist - Sri Paramakalyani College, Manonmanium Sundaranar University, Best Researcher in Annamalai University, K. Chidambaram memorial annual award for the contribution to marine Ornamental Fish Breeding, Best Marine Aquarium Award, Govt. of Kerala, and Best Marine Aquarium Award, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. He has published 70 research papers in journals, 10 books and 25 book chapters, and 30 popular articles contributed as author/co-author.

Area of Interest:

Environmental Sciences
Hatchery Technologies
Ornamental Aquaculture
Value Addition
Hatchery Bred Ornamentals

Selected Publications

  1. Kumar, T.T.A. and V. Gunasundari, 2013. Spawning and larval rearing of marine ornamental fishes in brackishwater in India: Opportunities and challenges. World Aquaculture Magazine, 44: 44-48.

  2. Gunasundari, V., T.T.A. Kumar, S. Ghosh and S. Kumaresan, 2013. An ex vivo Loom to Evaluate the Brewer�s Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in clownfish aquaculture with special reference to Amphiprion percula (Lacepede, 1802). Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 13: 389-395.
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  3. Balamurugan, R.J., T.T.A. Kumar and T. Balasubramanian, 2013. Influence of host anemone (Stichodactyla haddoni, Saville-kent, 1893) locomotion on its resident anemone fish reproduction. Anim. Reprod. Sci., 140: 103-107.

  4. Vinoth, R., M. Gopi, T.T.A. Kumar, T. Thangaradjou and T. Balasubramanian, 2012. Coral reef bleaching at agatti island of lakshadweep atolls, India. J. Ocean Univ. China, 11: 105-110.
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  5. Prakash, S., J. Balamurugan, T.A. Kumar and T. Balasubramanian, 2012. Invasion and abundance of reef-inhabiting fishes in the Vellar estuary, southeast coast of India, especially the lionfish Pterois volitans Linnaeus. Curr. Sci. (Bangalore), 103: 941-944.
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  6. Kumar, T.T.A., M. Gopi, K.V. Dhaneesh, R. Vinoth, S. Ghosh, T. Balasubramanian and T. Shunmugaraj, 2012. Hatchery production of the clownfish, Amphiprion nigripes at Lakshadweep, India. J. Environ. Biol., 33: 623-628.
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  7. Ghosh, S., T.T.A. Kumar and T. Balasubramanian, 2012. Determining the level of parental care relating fanning behaviour of five species of clown fishes in captivity. Ind. J. Geo-Mar. Sci., 41: 430-441.

  8. Dhaneesh, K.V., T.T.A. Kumar, S. Ghosh and T. Balasubramanian, 2012. Breeding and mass scale rearing of Clownfish Amphiprion percula: Feeding and rearing in brackishwater. Chinese J. Oceanol. Limnol., 30: 528-534.
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  9. Dhaneesh, K.V., M. Gopi, R. Ganeshamurthy, T.T.A. Kumar and T. Balasubramanian, 2012. Bio-accumulation of metals on reef associated organisms of Lakshadweep Archipelago. Food Chem., 131: 985-991.
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  10. Dhaneesh, K.V., K.N. Devi, T.T.A. Kumar, T. Balasubramanian and K. Tissera, 2012. Breeding, embryonic development and salinity tolerance of Skunk clownfish Amphiprion akallopisos. J. King Saud Univ. Sci., 24: 201-209.
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  11. Dhaneesh, K.V., K.M. Noushad and T.T.A. Kumar, 2012. Nutritional evaluation of commercially important fish species of Lakshadweep archipelago, India. Plos One, Vol. 7. 10.1371/journal.pone.0045439.
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  12. Veeruraj, A., M. Arumugam, T.A. Kumar and T. Balasubramanian, 2011. Distribution of tetraodontiformes (Family: Tetraontidae) along the parangipettai coast, southeast of India. Zootaxa, 3015: 1-12.

  13. Kumar, A.T.T., S.K. Setu, P. Murugesan and T. Balasubramanian, 2010. Studies on captive breeding and larval rearing of clown fish Amphiprion sebae (Bleeker, 1853) using estuarine water. Indian J. Marine Sci., 39: 114-119.
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  14. Dhayanithi, N.B., T.T.A. Kumar and K. Kathiresan, 2010. Effect of neem extract against the bacteria isolated from marine fish. J. Environ. Biol., 31: 409-412.
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  15. Kumar, T.T.A. and T. Balasubramanian, 2009. Broodstock development, spawning and larval rearing of the false clown fish, Amphiprion ocellaris in captivity using estuarine water. Curr. Sci., 97: 1483-1486.
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