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Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Indian flying fox Pteropus giganteus
Short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx
Family: Rhinopomatidae
Lesser mouse-tailed bat Rhinopoma hardwickii
Family: Emballonuridae
Long-winged tomb bat Taphozous longimanus
Family: Hipposideridae
Tail-less leaf-nosed bat Coelops frithii
Family: Megadermatidae
Greater false vampire Megaderma lyra
Family: Vespertilionidae
Asiatic greater yellow house bat Scotophilus heathii
Lesser Asiatic yellow house bat Scotophilus kuhlii
Indian pipistrelle Pipistrellus coromandra
Indian pygmy bat Pipistrellus tenuis
Order: Cetacea
Family: Platanistidae
Ganges river dolphin Platanista gangetica
Family: Phocoenidae
Finless porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides
Family: Delphinidae
Irrawaddy dolphin Orcaella brevirostris
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus
Common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
In conclusion it can be advocated that biodiversity of mangrove ecosystem has a
wide spectrum with several direct and indirect societal benefits. There are different
techniques to tag the benefits generated by mangrove-centric biodiversity with
money. Usually market prices can be applied when direct benefits of biodiversity
are involved, e.g., when the consumer purchases the biodiversity-derived goods like
fishes, honey, and wax from mangrove esosystem. When biodiversity loss is
involved, preventative or mitigatory expenditure is applied. If a given ecosystem is
under threat from human activites like shrimp culture in mangrove habitats or constructing fish landing units within the mangrove forests, the cost of implementing a
conservation unit as proxy to protect the same ecosystem, may be used to estimate
the benefit of that ecosystem’s continued survival and representation. The idea is not
strictly to estimate monetary value for biodiversity, but rather to provide alternatives
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Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Indian flying fox Pteropus giganteus
Short-nosed fruit bat Cynopterus sphinx
Family: Rhinopomatidae
Lesser mouse-tailed bat Rhinopoma hardwickii
Family: Emballonuridae
Long-winged tomb bat Taphozous longimanus
Family: Hipposideridae
Tail-less leaf-nosed bat Coelops frithii
Family: Megadermatidae
Greater false vampire Megaderma lyra
Family: Vespertilionidae
Asiatic greater yellow house bat Scotophilus heathii
Lesser Asiatic yellow house bat Scotophilus kuhlii
Indian pipistrelle Pipistrellus coromandra
Indian pygmy bat Pipistrellus tenuis
Order: Cetacea
Family: Platanistidae
Ganges river dolphin Platanista gangetica
Family: Phocoenidae
Finless porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides
Family: Delphinidae
Irrawaddy dolphin Orcaella brevirostris
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus
Common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
In conclusion it can be advocated that biodiversity of mangrove ecosystem has a
wide spectrum with several direct and indirect societal benefits. There are different
techniques to tag the benefits generated by mangrove-centric biodiversity with
money. Usually market prices can be applied when direct benefits of biodiversity
are involved, e.g., when the consumer purchases the biodiversity-derived goods like
fishes, honey, and wax from mangrove esosystem. When biodiversity loss is
involved, preventative or mitigatory expenditure is applied. If a given ecosystem is
under threat from human activites like shrimp culture in mangrove habitats or constructing fish landing units within the mangrove forests, the cost of implementing a
conservation unit as proxy to protect the same ecosystem, may be used to estimate
the benefit of that ecosystem’s continued survival and representation. The idea is not
strictly to estimate monetary value for biodiversity, but rather to provide alternatives
8 Mangroves: A Reservoir of Biodiversity