Journal of Threatened Taxa  

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Ishita Ganguly, Netrapal Singh Chauhan

We studied the feeding patterns and discrete spatio-temporal food habitsof16 groups of the urban Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta following their relocation in Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary near Delhi, India.  We observed that the macaques fed on 31 p... see more

Dorkas Kaiser, Sabine Schoppe

Populations of the Tri-spine Horseshoe Crab Tachypleus tridentatus have dramatically decreased over their distribution range and conservation efforts are now crucial.  The implementation of appropriate management strategies and stock assessment rely ... see more

Pedro Nacib Jorge-Neto, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto, Gediendson Ribeiro de Araújo, Thyara de Deco-Souza, Leanes Cruz da Silva, Jorge Aparecido Salomão Jr., Hernan Baldassare

The relevance of the Jaguar in  Brazilian fauna is incompatible with the lack of literature regarding its reproductive behavior, showing that research in this area should be intensified.  The knowledge of its basic reproductive behavior is extre... see more

Jayanta K. Roy, Ramie H. Begum, M. Firoz Ahmed

The present study across the Dibang River Basin is being presented as an annotated checklist from Arunachal Pradesh.  A systematic survey was conducted during 2014–2017 by visual encounter surveys, as well as opportunistic records across the basin. T... see more

M. Imran khan, M. Kamil Usmani, Shahnila Usmani, Hira Naz

A survey of the northeastern states of India recorded 10 species representing five genera belonging to four tribes of the family Pyrgomorphidae.  For identification, in addition to conventional morphological characters, the detailed structures of mal... see more

Subrat Debata, Kedar Kumar Swain

A study was carried out to assess the Odonata fauna of Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, eastern India from November 2012 to October 2013.  During the study a total of 54 species of odonates including 37 species of dragonflies (Anisoptera) and 17 s... see more

Sanjib Chattopadhyay, Somenath Dey, Utpal Singha Roy

The present study was conducted at Panchet Hill (Garh Panchkot), Purulia, West Bengal between June 2013 and May 2015.  Multiple methods were used for making a consolidated checklist and comments on the relative abundance of vertebrate diversity, excl... see more

K. K. Idreesbabu, C.P. Rajool Shanis, S. Sureshkumar

Two female specimens of the Furry Lobster Palinurellus wieneckii (De Man, 1881) with a total length of 118mm and 114mm, respectively, were obtained from the coral reefs off Kavaratti Island, Laccadive Islands, west of India.  Only two species are cur... see more

Suvarna S. Khadakkar, Ashish D. Tiple, Arun M. Khurad

Immature stages of Scaptodera rhadamistus (Fabricius) are described for the first time along with notes on nidification and biology.  The larvae differ from other Scarabaeinae species in the structure of raster on tenth sternum with two irregular bun... see more

M. Sajjad Hossain Tuhin, M. Kawsar Khan

An odonate survey was conducted throughout the southwestern region of Bangladesh, concentrating on eight districts and the Sundarban, from August 2014 to August 2016.  A total of 50 species under 30 genera belonging to six families was recorded durin... see more

K. Subin, P. A. Jose, T. V. Sarath

Salacia fruticosa Wall. ex M.A. Lawson, an endemic species was studied for the reproductive biology as this species showed reduced fruit set and natural regeneration.  The stigma-anther proximity, an extremely low number of pollen grains, a short per... see more

Rituparna Saha, Arun Kumar Dutta, Soumitra Paloi, Anirban Roy, Krishnendu Acharya

 The present paper deals with the report of six poroid woody macro fungi belonging to the family Ganodermataceae from West Bengal in India.  The taxonomic account of these collected fungi is represented herein with detailed macro- and micro-morp... see more

Manokaran Kamalakannan

The dorsal guard hairs of Takin Budorcas taxicolor was examined using the optical light and scanning electron microscopes for species identification. It is found that the dorsal guard hair of B. taxicolor is possessed a completely uniq... see more

Vipul Maurya, Jai Pratap Singh, Kahkashan Naseem, Surender Mehra, Parag M. Dhakate, Neha Verma, A. G. Ansari

Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena is a large carnivorous mammal found in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and India.  Though the mammal is largely distributed across the globe, it is listed under the Near Threatened category by IUCN Red List.  Uttara... see more

M. Kamalakannan, C. Venkatraman, Tauseef Hamid Dar, Kailash Chandra

The Least Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth, 1853 is one of the 13 leaf-nosed bats in India, and was known from Uttarakhand, West Bengal. North-east India and Tamil Nadu. Upon careful examination of the leaf-nose of the bat collections, wh... see more

Kiran Thomas, D. K. Vinodkumar, Jomals Mathews John, M. Shaji, P. O. Nammer

We report a possible instance of hybridization between the Ratufa indica and Ratufa macroura from Western Ghats. The details on the coat of the hybrid individuals, location map where the hybrids where sighted and the conservation challenges have been disc... see more

Elaine Mary Cowan, Peter John Cowan

Abstract: We report new records of Ischnura fountaineae for Oman and present field characters for I. fountaineae visible in a digital photograph.

Muhammad Tariq Rasheed, Imran Bodlah, Ammara Gull e Fareen, Xiaolei Huang

Leptogenys Roger, 1861 is one of the speciose genera in the subfamily Ponerinae.  There were no previous records of any species of this genus from Pakistan, though many such species were reported from various parts of the world, including its neighbo... see more

V. D. Hegde, D. Vasanthakumar, S. V. Manthen

While identifying the old (more than 50 years) collections of Western Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Pune, the occurrence of the species B. orientalis Solier,1848 from Pune constitute first report to India.

Krishna Chowlu, Avishek Bhattacharjee, Pankaj Kumar

Bulbophyllum medioximum is reported as a new addition to the orchid flora of India along with two new records for the state of Arunachal Pradesh, namely, Herminium macrophyllum and H. edgeworthii.  A detailed description supported by the photo plates... see more

M. C. Shameer, V. K. Sreenivas

The genus Gymnostachyum Nees, belongs to family Acanthaceae, comprises about 52 species (www.plantsoftheworldonline.org), distributed mainly in tropical Asia (www.efloras.org). In India, 11 speciesand four varieties have been recorded to date fr... see more