S. S. Mishra, P. Chakraborty, S. Saren, Anwesha Sengupta
{"title":"First record of Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Riberio 1915 (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the West Coast of India","authors":"S. S. Mishra, P. Chakraborty, S. Saren, Anwesha Sengupta","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/122386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/122386","url":null,"abstract":"A puffer fish, Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Riberio, 1915, is recorded for the first time from the west coast of India. Three individuals were collected from three different states, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Kerala, with other materials. Brief notes on diagnostic characters of the species and distinction between all species of the genus Lagocephalus in form of a working key to species is presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127246367","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}
S. Sajan, B. Tripathy, K. Sivakumar, Saheba Khatun
{"title":"Invasion of Giant African Alien Land Snail Lissachatina fulica (Férussac, 1821) in Sagar Island of India","authors":"S. Sajan, B. Tripathy, K. Sivakumar, Saheba Khatun","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/119264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/119264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117283028","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":"Importance of the Chaetotaxy in Larval Identification of Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) along with some Notes on its Life History","authors":"D. Deep, H. Rose, P. C. Pathania","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/118368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/118368","url":null,"abstract":"Earlier studies on identification of Galleria mellonella emphasized mainly on characterization of wing venation and maculation, larval or pupal morphology and other taxonomic characters such as male and female genitalia. The larval identification and diagnostic characters of pest species can best be strengthen through diagnosis of the setal arrangement and position of punctures present of different larval body segments. The cephalic region and all the bodily segments such as thoracic, abdominal etc of the last instar larva of Greater waxmoth, Galleria mellonella (Linnaeus) belonging to family (Pyralidae) have been examined along with some biological aspects.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129994553","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}
P. Raj, K. Dinesh, Abhijit Das, S. Dutta, N. B. Kar, P. Mohapatra
{"title":"Two New Species of Cricket Frogs of the Genus Fejervarya bolkay , 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Peninsular India","authors":"P. Raj, K. Dinesh, Abhijit Das, S. Dutta, N. B. Kar, P. Mohapatra","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/121436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V118/I1/2018/121436","url":null,"abstract":"The Dicroglossidae frogs of genus Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 are morphologically cryptic and represented by one of the widespread group of frogs across the tropical Asia comprising about 45 species. Being morphologically cryptic, taxonomic status for many of the species remains uncertain. Recent studies using integrative taxonomic approach have revealed the existence of many novel and hitherto undescribed species. Herewith, we describe two new species of Fejervarya viz. Fejervarya kalinga sp. nov. and Fejervarya krishnan sp. nov. from peninsular India having morphological and phylogenetic distinctness. Detailed morphological descriptions and comparisons with the known congeners along with their systematic relationship inferred from phylogenetic analyses are presented herein. Taxonomic problems within the genus for the peninsular India and the pattern of phylogenetic relationships are also presented.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134179787","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":"First Record of Deiphobeincisa werner, 1933 (Insecta : Mantodea) from Jharkhand, India and Morphology of Male Genitalia","authors":"P. M. Sureshan, S. Sambath","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v112/i1/2012/122126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v112/i1/2012/122126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"31 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133267272","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":"First Report of Fusilier Fish Family Caesionidae (Perciformes) from Northern Part of East Coast of India","authors":"D. Ray, A. Mohapatra","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120974","url":null,"abstract":"The fishes of family Caesionidae are commonly known as fusilier and 21 species have been reported from this family (Holleman et al., 2013) throughout the world. They are associated mainly with coral reefs of tropical and subtropical areas. These reef inhabitants are usually schooling fishes and migrate from one reef to another through near shore soft bottom. This is the reason for which occasionally they were caught by trawl nets along with sardines, anchovies, and other pelagic species (Carpenter, 1988). In Indian waters 16 species of Caesionidae fishes were reported under four genera (Gopi and Mishra, 2015). During local survey around West Bengal coast the authors collected three species of Caesionidae and identified as Caesio caerulaurea Lacepede, 1801, Caesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853 and Pterocaesio tessellata Carpenter, 1987. This paper reports all these three species and the family Caesionidae first time from West Bengal coast as well as Northern part of east coast of India.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129016663","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":"Report on Hemipteran Pest Diversity on Apple Plantations ( Malus domestica Borkh.) in Jammu and Kashmir State of India","authors":"Ruchi Gupta, P. C. Pathania","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121290","url":null,"abstract":"Apples are grown over several years in the same habitat which serves as a permanent abode for the multiplication of various pests. About a thousand insect pests have been recorded from temperate fruit plants all over the world (Chadha & Awasthi, 2005). Of them, 600 pests are found on apples alone. Hemiptera included Eriosoma lanigerum Hausmann (most serious pest), Aphis pomi De Geer and Quadraspidiotus perniciosus Comstock, as abundant amongst all whereas others including Reduvius delicatula Distant, Putala rostrata Melichar, Nezara viridula (Linnaeus), Halyomorpha halys Stal, Halys dentatus Fabricius, Empoasca sp. Borysthers sp, Oxyrachis rufescens Walker and Borysthers sp. are less abundant.. Amongst the recorded Hemipterans, three new records are made by the investigator in Jammu province viz. Reduvius delicatula, Putala rostrata Melichar and Borysthers belonging to families Reduvidae, Dictyopharidae and Fulgoridae respectively. There are chances that a minor pest of today may become major tomorrow, it is therefore necessary to study them as well.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"366 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122272292","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":"Inventory of Membracidae (Insecta: Homoptera) Type Specimens in the Collections of Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai","authors":"S. Prabakaran, R. Babu, M. Senraj","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121401","url":null,"abstract":"The insects included under the family Membracidae are small-size and phytophagous belonging to the auchenorrhynchous Homoptera. They are easily distinguished by the presence of horn-like processes of the pronotum, very often assuming curious bizarre shapes in different species have earned the name “horn bugs” or “cow bugs”. Although endowed with powers of flight, they prefer to hop about when disturbed and this habit has earned them the popular name “tree hoppers” (Ananthasubramanian, 1996). The membracids Type collections at the Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai, is very small. Ananthasubramanian and Ananthakrishnan (1975a, b), Ananthasubramanian (1978, 1980a, b, 1982, 1984, 1996), Thirumalai and Ananthasubramanian (1981, 1985), Ananthasubramanian and Ghosh (1987a, b) described many species of Indian membracids, but only few type specimens are deposited in the National Zoological Collections of Southern Regional Centre, Chennai. The present work is to focus on documenting the available information’s on holdings of type specimens of membracids at SRC, ZSI. The type specimens are listed by generic followed by original species name, author, type category, type locality, geographical coordinates, date of collection, collector name, and name of the journal and status of preservation. In addition to that the digital images of type specimens and original labels are also provided. The digital images of the type specimens were taken by using the Leica M205A Stereozoom Microscope.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"447 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123872201","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":"First Record of the Nepal Cricket Frog, Fejervarya nepalensis (Dubois, 1975) from Meghalaya, North East India","authors":"I. Kharkongor, B. Saikia","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120971","url":null,"abstract":"Anuran frogs of the genus Fejervarya Bolkay, 1915 are, perhaps, the most widely distributed Asian amphibians in the world. Presently, the genus Fejervarya includes around 45 species worldwide, of which 29 species are found to occur in India, mostly in the Western Ghats (Frost, 2017). Of these 29 species, only 5 species are known to occur in North-East India. They are F. nepalensis (Dubois, 1975), F. pierrei (Dubois, 1975), F. syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919), F. teraiensis (Dubois, 1984) and F. sengupti Purkayastha & Matsui, 2012 [Ao et. al., 2003; Borthakur et. al., 2007; Ningombam and Bordoloi, 2007; Ahmed et al., 2009; Mathew and Sen, 2010; Purkayastha and Matsui, 2012]. So far, only 4 species of Fejervarya viz. F. syhadrensis (Annandale, 1919), F. teraiensis (Dubois, 1984), F. pierrei (Dubois, 1975) and F. sengupti Purkayastha & Matsui, 2012, have been reported to occur in Meghalaya. Recently, during joint field surveys to the Sacred Groves of East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, undertaken by one of the authors (IJK) along with staff of the Forest Resources Division, Forest Department, Government of Meghalaya; several specimens of Fejervarya, among other anurans species, were collected. Taxonomic studies on this collection revealed some of these frogs to be Fejervarya nepalensis (Dubois, 1975). The species has never been recorded from Meghalaya, though it has been hypothesised to occur in areas in between its reported range of distribution. So this present paper, besides proving this hypothesis also forms the first record of the species from the State.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131097340","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":"Population Fluctuation of Soil Inhabiting Nematodes in Relation to soil Temperature and moisture at Guava orchard in West Bengal, India","authors":"D. Sen","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122392642","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}