{"title":"Density and Distribution of Meiofauna of Tamilnadu Coast","authors":"G. Sivaleela, K. Venkataraman","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122023","url":null,"abstract":"The meiofauna inhabiting the different sediment habitat of Tamilnadu was studied. A brief description of the density, sediment characters, total organic carbon and vertical distribution in different sediment habitats. diversity and cluster analysis is given. All the typical meiofauna groups are present. A quantitative estimate of the diverse taxonomic groups encountered is given.The density of total meiofauna individuals in these intertidal sediements ranged from 26 animals/l0 cm2 to 1440 animals/ 10 cm 2 . A list of 101 species identified from Tamilnadu Coast is given. several genera and species regarded as widespread and cosmopolitan were recorded. The evidence that several meiofauna species are widely distributed and any future investigations of the unexplored areas are likely to indicate a closer meiofaunal relationship is supported.The distribution of meiofauna is discussed in relation to the nature of the substratum.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"os-24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127689706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redescription and New Distributional Records of Delta esuriens (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Indian States","authors":"P. Girish Kumar","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122019","url":null,"abstract":"Though relatively more taxonomic works on the potter wasps have been done on the fauna of Palearctic and Nearctic regions, our information on the fauna of Indian subcontinent is very scanty and fragmentary. Among the species reported from Indian subcontinent many need detailed taxonomic revision and redescription. One such species is Delta esuriens (Fabricius), originally described by Fabricius in 1787 as Vespa esuriens from India. Original description was very short which is inadequate for the identification at species level. Subsequently Bingham (1897) provided a redescription of it which is also very short. Hence, in this paper a detailed redescription is provided. Delta esuriens is a moderately large potter wasp species with 14-25 mm in length. This species is distributed in Palearctic, Oriental and Australian regions. In India, it is so far reported from Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. In this paper, it is newly recorded from Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya and Uttar Pradesh.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132220968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two New Species of Molluscs (Naticidae: Gastropoda) from India","authors":"A. K. MUKHOPADHYAYt, A. Sharma, Achârya Vinobâ","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122013","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Natica was established by Scopoli, 1777 with Nerita vitellus Linnaeus, 1758 and subsequent designation given by Anton (1839) as the type. Several authors worked on the genus Natica ( Sowerby, 1883, Reeve, 1885, Tryon 1886 and recently Cemohorsky, 1971,1972, ) which are distributed in the Indo-Pacific region. In India, Subba Rao and Dey (2000) listed 12 species of the genus Natica in their Catalogue of Marine Molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Subba Rao (2003) enumerated 15 species under this genus in Indian Sea Shell (Part-I) Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. Of 91 species under the genus Natica reported globally, 41 species are from Indo-Pacific region and 19 species have been listed from various parts of India. While studying the molluscs of the family Naticidae, the authors came across with two new species of Naticidae from India. The type specimens are deposited in the National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126726340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distribution of Marine Polychaetes of India","authors":"G. Sivaleela, K. Venkataraman","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126141826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occurrence of Amolops assamensis Sengupta Et. Al., 2008 (Amphibia:Anura:Ranidae) and Polypedates assamensis Mathew and Sen, 2009 (Amphibia:Anura:Rhacophoridae) in Meghalaya","authors":"R. Sharma, K. Chandra","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132529205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Report on Population Survey of Hanuman Langurs in the District of Midnapore, West Bengal, India","authors":"A. Murmu, B. Talukder, P. C. Mazumdar","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i4/2012/122026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126323583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistical Studies and Ecology of Benthic foraminifera from Tamilnadu Coast, India","authors":"G. Sivaleela, K. Venkataraman","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122034","url":null,"abstract":"The foraminiferans are the most diverse phylum of mieofauna . Foraminifera are found in all marine environments. they may be planktic or benthic in mode of life. It has been estimated that the total number of foraminiferans species might be approximately 4000 living species of foraminifera. The present paper deals with the distribution and diversity of marine foraminiferans all over Tamilnadu Coast. Foraminiferal distribution has been reported by many workers. Foraminiferans were the most abundant group of meiofauna at the sampling sites. The number species per station ranged from 11 to 32.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127299853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Record of the Genus Omicroides Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India","authors":"P. Girish Kumar","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"30 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123864577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Note on Occurrence of Yellow-Wing Flying Fish, Cypselurus poecilopterus (Valenciennes, 1847) from Digha, East Coast of India","authors":"A. Mohapatra, P. Tudu, P. Yennawar","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123984561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On some Collection of Collembola Present in the Apterygota Section","authors":"G. Mandal, K. K. Suman, K. K. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i3/2012/122064","url":null,"abstract":"While going through the collection present in the Apterygota section of National Zoological Collection of Zoological Survey of India, we came across the following collections of collembolan specimens which has not been identified and published so far. From those collections, we have identified 14 species of Collembolaunder 9 genera distributed over 3 families. There are about 8000 described species of Collembola worldwide (FransJanssens, 2012).Indian fauna of Collembola represented by 299 species in 103 genera under 19 families (Mandai, 2010). Identification of specimens is done using a phase contrast compound microscope following Christiansen, KA and Bellinger, P.F., (1998).","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"30 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116405433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}