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Volume 11 Number 10 Year 2019

20 articles in this issue 

Bal Krishna Koirala, Karma Cheda, Tshering Penjor

This paper presents the results of a study conducted on the diversity and spatial distribution of amphibian fauna in two different habitat types along the elevation gradients of Mochu River valley in Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan.  The survey was... see more

Pags. 14249 - 14258  

Tayebe Salehi, Vahid Akmali, Mozafar Sharifi

Captive breeding and reintroduction programs are important conservation tools and are used for increasing the number of plant and animal species worldwide.  The endemic Kaiser’s Mountain Newt Neurergus kaiseri is listed as Vulnerable on the Red List ... see more

Pags. 14259 - 14267  

Dhavalkumar Vargiya, Anita Chakraborty

The present investigation was undertaken to study the diversity of wetland birds in Chhaya Rann (Gujarati: Deserted land) wetland complex, situated in the urban setting of Porbandar City, in the western state of Gujarat, India.  Almost 70 species bel... see more

Pags. 14268 - 14278  

Chaithra Shree Jayasimhan, Pramod Padmanabhan

Paddy, a major food crop of India, provides a variety of habitats in a short period of time and supports diverse organisms.  Paddy fields also harbour many birds with varying species composition across the different cultivation phases of paddy. ... see more

Pags. 14279 - 14291  

Helle V. Goldman, Martin T. Walsh

The faunal diversity of the densely populated island of Unguja, Zanzibar archipelago, Tanzania, includes several endemic mammals.  Camera-trapping in Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park and Kiwengwa–Pongwe Forest Reserve in September 2017 captured the fi... see more

Pags. 14292 - 14300  

Manokaran Kamalakannan, Kailash Chandra, Joy Krishna De, Chinnadurai Venkatraman

The macroscopic and microscopic characters of dorsal guard hairs of Indian lagomorphs (four species of pikas and three species of hare) are described; the cuticular and medullary characters are similar between the species studied.  The cuticular and ... see more

Pags. 14301 - 14308  

Okwong John Walter, Olusola Helen Adekanmbi, Omonu Clifford

The factors affecting African Forest Elephants include food availability, demand for ivory and changes in land-use. In order to survive, they tend to traverse considerable distances in search of food; on such occasions they are trapped and killed for thei... see more

Pags. 14309 - 14317  

Nishikant Gupta, Mark Everard, Ishaan Kochhar, Vinod Kumar Belwal

The Hindu Kush Himalaya is a biodiversity hotspot subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, including hydropower plants, pollution, deforestation and wildlife poaching, in addition to changing climate.  Bird photography tourism, as a locally impor... see more

Pags. 14318 - 14327  

Subhankar Gurung, Aditya Pradhan, Arun Chettri

Begonia satrapis was studied for its pollination aspects at Sumbuk, Sikkim, India.  The floral details and the foraging behaviour of insects visiting the flowers were examined to define the pollination syndrome and its functionality for the success o... see more

Pags. 14328 - 14333  

Priti Vinayak Aphale, Dhananjay Chintaman Meshram, Dnyaneshwar Maruti Mahajan, Prasad Anil Kulkarni, Shraddha Prasad Kulkarni

The Western Ghats represents a small part of the Deccan Traps continental flood basalt province that erupted about 65 million years ago.  It is an area of outstanding scenic beauty and has attracted the attention of geologists, naturalists and geomor... see more

Pags. 14334 - 14348  

M.N. Harisha, Harish Prakash, B.B. Hosetti, Vijaya Kumara

A study was conducted on the diversity of butterflies by using the pollard walk method in the tropical dry deciduous habitats of Shettihalli Wildlife Sanctuary, Shivamogga District, Karnataka, from February 2010 to January 2011.  A total of 151 speci... see more

Pags. 14349 - 14357  

Chinnathambi Viswanathan, Sampath Goutham, Vijayakumar Deepak Samuel, Pandian Krishnan, Ramachandran Purvaja, Ramachandran Ramesh

The present report describes the first record of two brachyuran crabs, Drachiella morum Alcock, 1896 and Quadrella maculosa Alcock, 1898 along the coast of Tamil Nadu, India.  The morphological characters of the specimens are described and discu... see more

Pags. 14358 - 14362  

Bhavendu Joshi, Biang La Nam Syiem, Rokohebi Kuotsu, Arjun Menon, Jayanta Gogoi, Varun Rshav Goswami, Divya Vasudev

Northeastern India, situated within the Indo-Burma and eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot complex, is known for its high diversity of wild felid species.  For most of these species, however, data on distribution and population trends are limited.&... see more

Pags. 14363 - 14367  

Ashutosh Sharma, Nidhan Singh, Pankaj Kumar

Calanthe davidii, a rare orchid species was rediscovered after a gap of 119 years in the western Himalaya and it is also a new distribution record for the flora of Himachal Pradesh State.  Detailed morphological description, distribution, ecology and... see more

Pags. 14368 - 14372  

Kothandapani Raman, Sivangnanaboopathidoss Vimalraj, Bawa Mothilal Krishnakumar, Natesan Balachandran, Abhishek Tomar

This paper is based on the observations from Tamil Nadu. The presence of this critically endangered Theraphosidae, P. metallica has been recorded for the first time outside of its known distribution, wherefore, expanding its range to further south from it... see more

Pags. 14373 - 14376  

Sai Sein Lin Oo, Nang Lao Kham, Kyaw Myo Naing, Swen C. Renner

Presence of the Critically Endangered Gyps vulture populations in northern Shan State, Myanmar.  On 27 November 2018, we observed a flock of G. bengalensis, G. tenuirostris, and G. himalayanensis in Man Sant Village, Mong Yai Township, Nort... see more

Pags. 14377 - 14380  

Rohan Krish Menzies, Megha Rao, Abhinav Kumar

The Vulnerable Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis is a known migrant to various locations in India. Here, we report two new locations in Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India, where one is a possible wintering location and the other a possible stopover en ... see more

Pags. 14381 - 14384  

Kah Hoo Lau, Su Ping Ong

Aquilaria malaccensis Lam., a highly threatened and one of the most sought-after agarwood producing species listed in the Appendix II of CITES, is reported here as the new host plant for Deudorix epijarbas cinnabarus in Malaysia.

Pags. 14385 - 14387  

Varsha Vilasrao Nimbalkar, Arun Prasanth Ravichandran, Milind Madhav Sardesai

Abutilon neelgerrense var. fischeri T.K. Paul & M.P. Nayar, a rare endemic taxon, has been rediscovered after a century from Theni District in Tamil Nadu.  The present study provides detailed morphological description, key to the varieties with addit... see more

Pags. 14388 - 14390