17 articles in this issue
Laxman Khanal, Mukesh Kumar Chalise, Xuelong Jiang
Sustainable conservation and management of a species require detailed knowledge of its population status and distribution pattern. The population of the Assamese Macaque Macaca assamensis in Nepal, probably a new subspecies endemic to the country, i... see more
José Duarte de Barros-Filho, Marco Antonio de Freitas, Thais Figueiredo Santos Silva, Mariana Fiuza de Castro Loguercio, Maria Celeste Costa Valverde
The amphisbaenian Leposternon octostegum (Duméril, 1851) is redescribed based on newly collected material from the state of Bahia, Brazil. Species validity was confirmed, and comparisons made to other Leposternon species and to the scarce literature... see more
Fatah Zarei, Sasan Kafaei, Hamid Reza Esmaeili
Our purpose in this study was to gather all previously published data and our own data of extensive field expeditions and camera trapping to present a general view of the Fars mammals. The mammals of Fars Province, southern Iran, comprise of 72 spec... see more
Thiesa Butterby Soler Barbosa, Daniel de Souza Ramos Angrimani, Bruno Rogério Rui, João Diego de Agostini Losano, Luana de Cássia Bicudo, Marcel Henrique Blank, Marcilio Nichi, Cristiane Schilbach Pizzutto
Wild African Lion Panthera leo populations are decreasing due to inbreeding and reduced genetic variability. Thus, the use of assisted reproduction in the species could one day become essential. Before this is possible, however, studies need t... see more
Sudesh Batuwita, Madura De Silva, Sampath Udugampala
We describe a new Pseudophilautus species, P. conniffae sp. nov. from southern Sri Lanka. It was previously confused with Pseudophilautus rus (Manamendra-Arachchi & Pethiyagoda). The new species differs from the latter by the combination of t... see more
S.R. Ganesh, T. Nandhini, V. Deepak Samuel, C. R. Sreeraj, K. R. Abhilash, R. Purvaja, R. Ramesh
We compile an up-to-date checklist of 26 species of marine snakes known from the Indian coastlines. We furnish information on the original orthography, authorship, date of publication, current binominal representation, synonymy and chresonymy lists for ea... see more
Deepak Apte, Dishannt Parasharya, Bhavik Patel
Dugong Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) is the only herbivorous marine mammal distributed along the tropical and subtropical oceans of the Indo-Pacific regions. The record of the species in India is mainly from the east coast including Andaman and Gulf o... see more
Nambi Sasikala, R. Ramasubbu
Trichopus zeylanicus ssp. travancoricus is locally known in Tamil Nadu as Arogyapachai, meaning a plant that provides good health and vitality. The unripe fruits of the plant are highly rejuvenating and are used by the Kani Tribe to ameliorate fatig... see more
Sanjay Mishra, C. P. Vivek, Gautam Anuj Ekka, Lal Ji Singh
Grosourdya muriculata (Rchb.f.) R. Rice (Orchidaceae) is a little known epiphytic, endemic orchid from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in India. The present article provides the detailed taxonomy, ecology, distribution, conservation status, and p... see more
Nazimur Rahman Talukdar, Parthankar Choudhury, Rofik Ahmed Barbhuiya
The lives of Asiatic Elephants in the Patharia Hills Reserve Forest of Barak Valley, Assam are at risk. Due to serious anthropogenic pressures, human-elephant interactions have increased tremendously during recent decades. It is time conservation of the s... see more
Sabit Hasan, Tanvir Ahmed, Hassan Al-Razi
Common Hoopoe Upupa epops was thought to breed in Bangladesh but with no confirmed records. The observation presented in this paper of a breeding pair with its chick at Satchari National Park in northeastern Bangladesh is the first confirmed breedin... see more
Sanej Prasad Suwal, Krishna Dev Hengaju, Naresh Kusi
The Nepal Argus Paralasa nepalica is poorly known in Nepal. There are only three records of the species so far, near the Nepal-China border. This photographic record, obtained about 166km north-west from Dolpa and 68.7km north-east from C... see more
Praveenraj jayasimhan, Moulitharan Nallathambi, M. P. Goutham-Bharathi
The Nilgiri Mystus Hemibagrus punctatus (Jerdon, 1849), a Critically Endangered catfish endemic to the Western Ghats of India, is recorded for the first time from Stanley Reservoir in Tamil Nadu, India. An account of the morphometrics of this ... see more
Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor
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Neisseril Anirudhan Kashmeera, Ambalaparambil Vasu Sudhikumar
The checklist of spiders of Rajasthan State in India is provided here, which is represented by 71 species of spiders included under 47 genera of 15 families. The most species-rich families reported so far are Araneidae and Gnaphosidae with 14 specie... see more
Meenakshi Bharti
Chrysomya putoria (Wiedemann, 1830) and C. thanomthini Kurahashi & Tumrasvin, 1977 were recorded for the first time from India. The species were collected from an altitude of 2,000m in the Himalaya. An updated key to the Indian species of the ... see more
Rajib Gogoi, Umeshkumar L. Tiwari, Souravjyoti Borah, Bladimir Bajur Theodore Tham
This paper reports Impatiens duclouxii Hook.f. as a new addition for India from Arunachal Pradesh. In addition, the scientific name of the species is lectotypified here.