Journal of Threatened Taxa  

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National Biodiversity Authority 

Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Gandla Chethan Kumar, Aishwarya J. Urs, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh

We reassess the systematics of Hemidactylus scabriceps, a recently rediscovered and poorly known gecko, and elucidate its phylogenetic position using molecular data for the first time.  Contrary to previous speculations prompted by its morphological ... see more

T. Karuppudurai, K. Sripathi

The Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat Cynopterus brachyotis was found at higher elevations but since there is a paucity of reports on its distribution and habitat selection, an inventory was made at four locations in the Eastern and Western Ghats of southern Ind... see more

Parmesh Kumar, Archna Sharma

Located in the Trans-Gangetic Plains of India, Kurukshetra is dotted with a number of man-made, perennial, sacred ponds of great historical and religious importance.  These wetlands also serve as important wintering and stopover sites for birds comin... see more

Trupti D. Jadhav, Nitin S. Sawant, Soorambail K. Shyama

Freshwater turtles symbolize a key component of biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems.  Of the 356 living species of turtles and tortoises in the world, 34 species are recorded from India.  The number of freshwater turtle and tortoise species found... see more

Nilesh R. Thaokar, Payal R. Verma, Raymond J. Andrew

The Coromandel Damselfly Ceriagrion coromandelianum can be easily identified because of its bright yellow abdomen, greenish thorax and eyes.  In females, the abdomen is darker with light brown colouration extending to dark brown towards the terminal ... see more

Veeravarapu Hanumantha Rao, Vaidyula Vasudeva Rao, Anuti Baleeshwar Reddy, Vatsavaya Satyanarayana Raju

Corynandra viscosa subsp. nagarjunakondensis (Cleomaceae), a flowering plant taxon endemic to Nagarjunkonda of Krishna River Valley, Andhra Pradesh, southern India was assessed for its ecological status.  The distribution of this species was mapped, ... see more

Olga Patricia Pinzón, Jose Daniel Castro

 Eight species of termite from the Amazon and Orinoquia regions, belonging to four genera of the subfamily Syntermitinae, are recorded for the first time in Colombia.  The species are Cornitermes cumulans (Kollar, 1832), Cornitermes pilosus Holm... see more

R. R. Rachana, R. Varatharajan

The presence of three species of thrips, namely Asprothrips bimaculatus Michel & Ryckewaert, Plesiothrips perplexus (Beach), and Pseudodendrothrips darci (Girault), has been reported here for the first time from India, collected during a thrips survey car... see more

Rinku Goswami

A survey work was conducted in Satkoshia-Baisapalli Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha, India, where altogether 10 earthworm species were collected.  Out of these, four species—Pontoscolex corethrurus (Müller, 1856), Metaphire houlleti (Perrier, 1872), Per... see more

E. R. Sreekumar, S. Nikhil, K. G. Ajay, P. O. Nameer

 In a study on the diversity and abundance of butterflies of montane forests of Eravikulam National Park in the Western Ghats, southern India, 85 species of butterflies belonging to six families were recorded.  This include eight species of butt... see more

Arun Kumar Kushwaha, Lalit Mohan Tewari, Lal Babu Chaudhary

The present study provides a taxonomic account of the angiosperms of Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh.  The district, which comes under the Vindhyan region of Uttar Pradesh, is one of the richest areas in the state as far as plant diversity is con... see more

Meghma Bera, Soumitra Paloi, Arun Kumar Dutta, Prakash Pradhan, Anirban Roy, Krishnendu Acharya

The present article reports five heterobasidiomycetous taxa, viz., Dacryopinax spathularia (Dacrymycetaceae), Exidia glandulosa, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum (Exidiaceae), Tremella fuciformis, and T. mesenterica (Tremellaceae), based on collections made from ... see more

Todd F. Elliott, James M. Trappe, Aziz Türkoglu

Mycophagy (fungivory) performs numerous important ecosystem functions for fungi, plants, and animals. Fungi serve as food for diverse mammals, ranging from bears, Ursus spp., to shrews, Sorex spp. However, among the many mammals reported to eat fungi, hed... see more

Filip Osaer, Krupskaya Narváez

The present communication documents the first observation of a morphologic anomaly in a juvenile Spiny Butterfly Ray Gymnura altavela. This observation is remarkable for its similarity with a rostral abnormality in an adult G. altavela ... see more

Balasaheb V. Sarode, Nikhil U. Joshi, Pratik P. Pansare, Hemant V. Ghate

A small reduviid bug Emesopsis nubila Uhler, 1893 is reported from Maharashtra State, India, for the first time.  Digital illustrations of important morphological characters, including male genitalia and female terminalia, are provided in the additio... see more

Mohd Shabir, Priyanka Agnihotri, Jay Krishan Tiwari, Tariq Husain

Gentiana aperta belonging to the section Chondrophyllae under the genus Gentiana (Gentianaceae) forms a new record to India from the Ladakh Himalaya.  A detailed morphological account, photo plate and other relevant information are provided to facili... see more

A. J Robi, P. Sujanapal, P. S. Udayan

Cinnamomum travancoricum Gamble was recollected after its type from Chemunji, Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve in Kerala.  It had long been confused with C. sulphuratum Nees and several naturalists reported its collection from different parts of the We... see more

M. Omalsree, V. K. Sreenivas

Striga masuria (Orobanchaceae) was described by Bentham based on heterogenous collections viz. Hamilton’s from the Morang Hills of Nepal and Wallich’s from Prome of Myanmar in 1810 and 1826 respectively.  Later, Shutter collected this species for Ind... see more