{"title":"Fish Diversity of the Vatrak Stream, Sabarmati River System, Rajasthan","authors":"H. S. Banyal, Sanjeev Kumar","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"48 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":"121552601","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":"Platyhelminthes Parasites of Fish of Economic Importance from Diamond Harbour, West Bengal","authors":"Anindita Ghosh, S. Chakrabarti, J. Purushothaman","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/120967","url":null,"abstract":"Diamond Harbour lies on the eastern bank of River Hooghly where the river meets the Bay of Bengal and is located in South 24 Parganas district, the gateway to the places like Kakdwip, Namkhana, Bakkhali and Nischintapur. The fish have been collected from areas in and around Diamond Harbour, Nischintapur, Kakdwip and Namkhana. Our present study is on trematodes and acanthocephala of fish of economic importance from Diamond Harbour. This project has been undertaken to make a detailed study on that. 38 species under 28 genera and 17 families of trematode parasites and 5 species under 4 genera and 3 families of Acanthocephala parasites from fish Hosts have been described in the present study.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"267 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120973359","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":"Garra chindwinensis , a New Species of Cyprinid Fish (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) from Manipur, Northeastern India","authors":"Nongthombam Premananda, L. Kosygin, B. Saidullah","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120968","url":null,"abstract":"The labeonine cyprinid genus Garra are elongate, small to medium-sized, bottom-dwelling fishes usually found in hill streams and fast flowing rivers, where they adhere to the rocky bottom surface with the help of highly modified lower lip, acting as sucker (Zi-ming et al., 2009). It is widely distributed from the northern and central Africa to Southeast Asia through the Middle East, Southern China and South Asia. So far, nineteen species of the genus Garra are reported from the headwaters of the ChindwinIrrawaddy in India and Myanmar of which 8 species viz., G. bispinosa, G. cornigera, G. elongata, G. gravelyi, G. litanensis, G. rotundinasus, G. qiaojiensis and G. trilobata bear proboscis on the snout (Shangningam and Vishwanath, 2015). A collection of fishes from the Laniye River, a tributary of the Chindwin River in Senapati District of Manipur, included an undescribed species of Garra with a proboscis, which are herein described as G. chindwinensis. Material and Methods","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"19 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":"117273825","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 Sighting Record of Devil Scorpionfish Scorpaenopsis diabolus (Cuvier, 1829) (Scorpaeniformes: Scopaenidae) from Andaman Islands","authors":"P. T. Rajan, S. Mishra, K. Bineesh","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/120973","url":null,"abstract":"Andaman and Nicobar Islands, situated in the Bay of Bengal between 6° 45 ́-13° 45 ́ N and 92° 10 ́-94° 15 ́ E, consists of 572 islands, islets and rocks and covers a distance of almost 750 km North-South with a coastline of 1962 km, and bring in for India, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 600 thousand km. A comprehensive and authoritative account of fishes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was published by Francis Day (1870). Rajan et al. (2013) listed a total of 1434 species of fish including 20 species of scorpionfishes. Worldwide there are about 231 species known in the family Scorpaenidae, of which 53 species occur on or in the vicinity of East Indian coral reefs (Allen and Erdmann, 2012). The fish fauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is one of the most diverse due to zoogeographically isolated from mainland and close to south Asian countries from where the most numbers of coral reef fishes are present.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"29 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":"134143272","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}
A. H. Sheikh, P. G. Kumar, Moni Thomas, Rita Bhandari
{"title":"Taxonomic Studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh","authors":"A. H. Sheikh, P. G. Kumar, Moni Thomas, Rita Bhandari","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/119330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/119330","url":null,"abstract":"Dumna Nature Park (DNP) is located about 10 km from Jabalpur city in Madhya Pradesh. DNP has an area of 1058 ha. Geographically Jabalpur is situated between coordinates 230 10ʹ, 790 57ʹ, at 460 m above the sea level. DNP is a forest owned by Jabalpur Municipal Corporation, and is managed by Department of Forest, Government of Madhya Pradesh. The dense forest has also a water reservoir, Khandari Lake. Besides a range of herbivores and carnivores in DNP, it also has an aquatic ecosystem that serves as a valuable habitat for migratory birds. Apart from being a bio-diversity zone, an eco tourist spot, DNP also attracts numerous educational institutions for student’s expedition. Since its establishment, no efforts have been made to study the insect diversity in the Park. This paper focuses on the vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) diversity in the Park. Material and Methods","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115342423","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 New Species of Fejervarya bolkay , 1915 from the Lateritic Plateaus of the Goa Parts of the Western Ghats","authors":"K. Dinesh, N. Kulkarni, P. Swamy, P. Deepak","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I4/2017/121293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I4/2017/121293","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a combination of field explorations, morphological characters and molecular studies, a large sized Fejervarya species new to science is described using an integrated taxonomic approach. Here, the new species is diagnosed on the basis of distinctness in morphology, genetic distance and geography. The new species is assignable to the Fejervarya nilagirica morphological group. In addition, taxonomic problems among the congeners of Fejervarya in the Western Ghats are discussed. Finally, we describe the pattern of species representations of different morphological group in the Goa landscape.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114460995","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}
A. H. Sheikh, P. G. Kumar, Rita Bhandari, Moni Thomas
{"title":"First Record of Three Species of Hairy Wasps (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) from Madhya Pradesh","authors":"A. H. Sheikh, P. G. Kumar, Rita Bhandari, Moni Thomas","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/119329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I3/2017/119329","url":null,"abstract":"The family Scoliidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) is a group of most primitive solitary aculeate wasps. They are commonly known as hairy wasps, having a wide distribution but predominantly found in tropical countries (Tüzün and Bağrıaçık, 2000) The family consists of about 560 species, 220 sub-species distributed among 43 genera, 28 sub-genera in two sub-families viz., Proscoliinae and Scoliinae (Osten, 2005). Seventy-nine species under 14 genera have been reported from India till date (Gupta and Jonathan, 2003; Schulten et al, 2011). In this paper, we studied the scoliid specimens collected from Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The Park is a forest area and ecotourism site located in the Jabalpur district. The park is spread in 1058 ha area and situated at an elevation of about 460 m from the mean sea level. There is no record of scoliid wasp fauna of the Dumna Nature Park till date. Material and Methods","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127991897","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 Seriolina nigrofasciata (Ruppell, 1829) (Perciformes: Carangidae) from Odisha Coast, India","authors":"S. Roy, S. Dash, S. S. Mishra","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/119328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/119328","url":null,"abstract":"and 66 species in Indian waters (Gopi and Mishra, 2015). But their occurrence along the east coast of India is numbered at 20 genera and 47 species (Mishra, 2013). However, there are only 28 species of Carangids belonging to 14 genera are known from Odisha coast (Barman et al., Seriolina Wakiya, 1924 is monotypic and known by only one species, S. nigrofasciata (Ruppell, 1829) worldwide. From taxonomic point of view, this species is clearly distinguished from other genera of the family in having longer maxilla extending to below posterior margin of eye, 4 to 10 numbers of mostly rudimentary gill","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130719675","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 Records of Perrinia stellata (Adams) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Chelodontidae) and Iravadia quadrasi (Boettger), (Gastropoda: Iravadiidae ) from India","authors":"Abhijna Ghosh, A. Mukhopadhyay, B. Tripathy","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/119327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/119327","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116755265","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}
B. Saikia, Mahendra Devanda, S. D. Gurumayum, I. Kharkongor, Bikramjit Sinha
{"title":"Additions to the Amphibian fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, India, Eastern Himalaya","authors":"B. Saikia, Mahendra Devanda, S. D. Gurumayum, I. Kharkongor, Bikramjit Sinha","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/118770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/118770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134436165","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}