22 articles in this issue
We announce the Sally Walker Conservation Fund at Zoo Outreach Organization to continue key areas of her interest. We seek your support and contribution to keep her dreams alive and to continue the long-standing commitments she made for the cause of ... see more
Iroro Tanshi, Anthony Ekata Ogbeibu, Paul Jeremy James Bates
Knowledge of the bat fauna in Nigeria is limited due to use of outdated collection techniques, and infrequent sampling effort. To advance knowledge of bat diversity in the country, a survey of bats from three localities:—Emu, Okomu National Park (ON... see more
Randall Arguedas, Elisa C. López, Lizbeth Ovares
Northern Tamandua Tamandua mexicana is one of the most common roadkill species encountered on Costa Rican highways. Ten roadkill Northern Tamanduas were collected along different roads in Costa Rica and moved to a veterinary facility where appendicu... see more
Kavita Kumari, Manas Hoshalli Munivenkatappa, Archana Sinha, Simanku Borah, Basanta Kumar Das
Barilius torsai is described from the Torsa, a tributary of Brahmaputra River system in West Bengal, India. The new species is distinguished from all its congeners by the presence of a complete lateral line with 52–53 scales, 29 pre-dorsal scales, pectora... see more
Surjyo Jyoti Biswas, Debarun Patra, Soumyajit Roy, Santosh Kumar Giri, Suman Pal, Asif Hossain
Butterflies have always attracted attention due to their unique colourations. As most butterflies are highly specific in their niche utilisation, abundance of the species in a locality may advocate status of ecosystem functioning and environmental h... see more
Sajan Thakur, Harish Chander Dutt, Bikarma Singh, Yash Pal Sharma, Nawang Tashi, Rajinder Singh Charak, Geeta Sharma, Om Prakash Vidyarathi, Tasir Iqbal, Bishander Singh, Kewal Kumar
The Devi Pindiyan Valley, an abode of Goddess Vaishno Devi, in Trikuta Hills (western Himalaya) is a unique hill-top land ecosystem with a diverse regional mixed subtropical and temperate flora. Because of its suitable geographic location, specific and un... see more
Ajay Kumar Gautam, Shubhi Avasthi
An updated analysis of the diversity of rust fungi in Himachal Pradesh is provided herein as a product of field surveys, of mycological analysis, and of all forms of published documentation and literature. The results of all forms of analysis reveal... see more
Sharada Jagannath Ghadage, Vaneeta Chandrashekhar Karande
The distribution pattern of blue-green algae was studied from paddy fields of Patan and Karad tehsils in relation to physico-chemical properties of soil, viz., pH, electrical conductivity, organic carbon %, available N, P, and K. Paddy field soil sa... see more
S. Arumugam, K. Sampath Kumar, B. Karthik, V. Ravichandran
Cordia diffusa K.C. Jacob, belonging to Boraginaceae, discovered in 1938 and named by K.C. Jacob in 1944, is a little-known and the only narrow endemic but neglected plant of Coimbatore City. The lectotype of the steno-endemic is determined and the ... see more
Arjun Adit, Monika Koul, Rajesh Tandon
Ten species of orchids belonging to eight genera are recorded for the first time from Tripura State of India. The taxa include Bulbophyllum affine Wall. ex Lindl., Bulbophyllum lobbii Lindl., Coelogyne suaveolens (Lindl.) Hook.f., Dendrobium tortile... see more
Anoop P. Balan, A. J. Robi, S. V. Predeep
Humboldtia bourdillonii is an Endangered tree legume; considered endemic to its type locality in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Idukki District of Kerala State. A new population of this highly threatened endemic species is located in the Vagamon Hills... see more
James A. Fitzsimons
Most hornbills are omnivorous, but there are few specific records of how vertebrate prey are handled by hornbills, particularly in Asia. I describe an observation of a pair of Indian Grey Hornbills Ocyceros birostris handling a large vertebrate prey item ... see more
Subrat Debata
Cyclonic storms have detrimental effect on birds particularly those inhabit and breed in open and exposed areas like sea and riverine habitats. This note reports the effect of ‘Fani’, one of the severe cyclones that affected Odisha in May 2019 on sandbar-... see more
Jatishwor Singh Irungbam, Meenakshi Jatishwor Irungbam
In the present article, we report the first record of the moth, Ethmia lineatonotella (Moore, 1867) family Depressariidae, subfamily Ethmiinae from Mendrelgang village of Tsirang district, Bhutan. The species is the second known species from the family, s... see more
Sanej Prasad Suwal, Biraj Shrestha, Binita Pandey, Bibek Shrestha, Prithivi Lal Nepali, Kaashi Chandra Rokaya, Bimal Raj Shrestha
Nepal Comma is a rare butterfly species of Nepal. Here we provide new distributional locality range of Nepal comma Polygonia c-album agnicula Moore, 1872 from Rara. The butterfly species observed were photographed and identified in the field. Not an... see more
Duraikannu Vasanthakumar, Radheshyam Murlidhar Sharma, Palanisamy Senthilkumar
Studies on the insect fauna especially gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Tamil Nadu are relatively less in comparison to the other Indian region. Only fourty eight species of Cecidomyiidae have been reported so far from this region. The present stud... see more
Koushik Sadhukhan, Ramesh Chatragadda, T. Shanmugaraj, M.V. Ramana Murthy
Coral Reefs in Gulf of Mannar is degrading with fatser rate due to several environmental stress over the past few decades. Under this severe degredation phase, our work has observed significant coral recruitment at Hare Island and Manoli & Manoliputti Isl... see more
Parviz Tavakoli-Kolour, Sanaz Hazraty-Kari
We report first observations of three coral diseases including black band disease on Acropora, a syndrome resembling yellow band disease and red band disease on Porites colonies from depth 5–6 m at Abu-Musa Island after widespread coral bleaching in... see more
Kinlay Rabgay, Pankaj Kumar
The article talks about a new distribution record of an orchid namely, Crepidium aphyllum. Earlier it was known to be endemic to India. A brief description of the plant along with photographs is provided here for easy identification along with notes on ph... see more
Pramod R. Lawand, Rajaram V. Gurav, Vinod B. Shimpale
Argyreia lawii C.B. Clarke, an endemic to Western Ghats of India is reported here as an after century collection. Detailed description and photo plates are given for easy identification and IUCN status of the species has been accessed.
L. Rasingam, K. Karthigeyan
Linostoma decandrum (Roxb. ) Wall. ex Endl. belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae is known from Assam and Manipur states of northeast India is reported here as a new addition to the flora of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
A.J. Solomon Raju
Sarcolobus carinatus is a rare twining liana distributed towards landward side at Coringa Mangrove Forest. It exhibits pheno-events, leaf fall, leaf flushing, flowering and fruiting sequentially from May-December. It is a hermaphroditic specie... see more