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Volume 11 Number Vol. 11 No. 15 (2019) Year 1909

20 articles in this issue 

Francesco Nardelli

The Sumatran Rhinoceros is approaching extinction.  A few dozen animals remain, dispersed in dwindling Indonesian rainforest with only a few years of likely survival time.  Eight rhinos belonging to two subspecies are in controlled breeding cent... see more

Pags. 14927 - 14941  

Ram C. Kandel, Ram C. Poudel, Amir Sadaula, Prakriti Kandel, Kamal P. Gairhe, Chiranjibi P. Pokheral, Siddhartha B. Bajracharya, Mukesh K. Chalise, Ghan Shyam Solanki

Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR) has the last remaining Nepalese population of the Endangered Asiatic Wild Buffalo (Bubalus arnee Kerr, 1792).  Individual animals protected inside KTWR may be of purely wild, domestic or hybrid origin, and the wild... see more

Pags. 14942 - 14954  

Adrian Wansaindor Lyngdoh, Honnavalli Nagaraj Kumara, P.V. Karunakaran, Santhanakrishnan Babu

In this paper we present an updated checklist of mammals found in Meghalaya.  Using online databases and search engines for available literature, we provide the scientific names, accepted English names, conservation status as per IUCN Red List, India... see more

Pags. 14955 - 14970  

Bipin S. Phal Desai, Avelyno H. D'costa, S.K. Shyama

Guard hairs were collected from four live domesticated ungulate species and shed guard hairs of six wild ungulate species from zoo captive animals from five individuals each.  Photographic reference was prepared showing analytic features of hair char... see more

Pags. 14971 - 14978  

Amir Sohail Choudhury, Rofik Ahmed Barbhuiya, Parthankar Choudhury

A concise interpretation of people’s perception and attitude towards wildlife helps in formulating better long-term conservation policies.  In an attempt to understand people’s perception, we considered one of the threatened and least known ecosystem... see more

Pags. 14979 - 14988  

Shraddha Prabhakar Karikar, Subhash Vitthal Mali, Kulkarni Prasad, Aphale Priti

Ujjani wetland is a potential Ramsar site in Maharashtra, India with several satellite wetlands associated with it.  The present study contributes to single large or several small habitat conservation theories by assessing wetland... see more

Pags. 14989 - 14997  

Bed Bahadur Khadka, Ashish Bashyal

Gharials Gavialis gangeticus have been reared in ex situ facilities in the Gharial Conservation and Breeding Center (GCBC) in Chitwan National Park of Nepal since the 1980s.  There remains a paucity of detailed information concerning their growth rat... see more

Pags. 14998 - 15003  

G.K.V.P.T. Silva, W.A.D. Mahaulpatha, Anslem de Silva

Amphibian abnormalities are caused by numerous etiologies prevailing in the environment.  Since amphibians are good bio indicators of the environment, amphibian abnormalities are popularly known as a veritable ecological screening tool to assess ecos... see more

Pags. 15004 - 15014  

Jeewan Singh Jalal

The Botanical Survey of India launched a pilot project during 2015–2017 on exploration of orchids of Goa State covering all the protected areas.  A total of 68 orchid species belonging to 28 genera were documented of which 42 are epiphytic and 26 are... see more

Pags. 15015 - 15042  

Dhareppa Ganager, Gotakanapura Sanjeevamurthy Mamatha, Asoor Muralidhara, Nagappa Lakkundi Jaya, Beechagondahalli Papanna Shivashankar

A study was carried out to determine the efficacy of anthelmintics on gastrointestinal parasites in lions under captivity at Bannerghatta Biological Park (Bengaluru), Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Garden (Mysuru) and Tiger-Lion Safari Tyavarekoppa (Shivamo... see more

Pags. 15043 - 15046  

Anirban Mahata, Sudheer Kumar Jena, Sharat Kumar Palita

The first record of a butterfly species, the Tamil Treebrown Lethe drypetis todara Moore, 1881 (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) is described from Deomali Hill range of southern Odisha, in Eastern Ghats of India, collected by fruit-baiting.  This is the first... see more

Pags. 15047 - 15052  

Hassan Naveed, Kamran Sohail, Waqar Islam, Zhang Yalin

The tribe Agalliini is reviewed from Pakistan with additional description and illustration of a new record Anaceratagallia pararobusta (Pruthi) 1936.  An updated checklist and keys are given to distinguish all the genera and species of the tribe Agal... see more

Pags. 15053 - 15060  

Rocktim Ramen Das, Vijay Kumar Deepak Samuel, Gautham Sampath, Pandian Krishnan, Purvaja Ramachandran, Ramesh Ramachandran

The Bivalvia family Placunidae Rafinesque, 1815 in India is reviewed in this paper based on previous literature and records.  Additionally, the species Placuna quadrangula is described from the Indian sub-continent.  Being an economically import... see more

Pags. 15061 - 15067  

Arun Pratap Singh, Tribhuwan Singh

The present study reports the occurence of Mountain Tortoiseshell, Nymphalis rizana (Moore,1872) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the upper Garhwal  region of the Western Himalaya after a gap of over 100 years. Earlier records of specimens collec... see more

Pags. 15068 - 15071  

Ashirwad Tripathy

Collembola are soil builders and they decide the soil health. There are about 9023 species of collembola decribed worldwide and 342 species of 113 genera of 20 families are present in India. Here, the first report of the species Dicranocentroides indica&n... see more

Pags. 15072 - 15073  

Vishwanath Dattatray Hegde

The paper contains the report of 37 species from Meghalaya under 20 genera belonging to nine tribes of four sub families and taxonomic details, distribution record of the species.  Among the reported species, four species, viz: Gonocephalum depressum... see more

Pags. 15074 - 15078  

Samiran Panday; Vikash Kumar; Sudhansu Sekhar Dash; Bipin Kumar Sinha, Paramjit singh

Codonopsis bhutanica Ludlow, a lesser-known endemic species to central and eastern Himalaya, collected for the first time from Arunachal Pradesh, India.  The species was previously known only from Bhutan and Nepal.  The species is reported here ... see more

Pags. 15079 - 15082  

Khilendra Singh Kanwal, Umeshkumar Lalchand Tiwari, Lod Yama, Mahendra Singh Lodhi

Gentiana urnula Harry Sm. (Gentianaceae) was collected from Nagula wetland area of Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh. This species is now considered as new distributional records for the flora of Arunachal Pradesh of India. Detailed description, occurr... see more

Pags. 15083 - 15086  

E.S.K. Udupa, H.U. Abhijit, K.G. Bhat

Carex phacota, Spreng. Is an least concern species, it is distributed in south and east Asia, Indo-China and Japan. In India it is found in Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Tamilnadu, is reported as a new record for Karnatak... see more

Pags. 15087 - 15088  

Reviewed by A. Rajasekaran

Compendium of Traded Indian Medicinal PlantsISBN: 978-81-908965-4-2Published by Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India@ FRLHT 2018 <http://www.frlht.org>

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