{"title":"An Account of Ichthyofauna of Digha Coast, West Bengal","authors":"P. Yennawar, A. Mohapatra, P. Tudu","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117289","url":null,"abstract":"Digha (Lat 21036’ Long 87030’) is a famous seaside resort town in the district of Purba Medinipur of the state of West Bengal and situated at the northern end of Bay of Bengal. Also, this place is located near the Gangetic mouth, provides most peculiar habitat of shallow muddy beach with lot of sedimentation load coming from Ganga riverine system. It is also one of the major marine fish landing stations as well as famous beach destination of east cost of India. Numerous studies have already been made to inventories the ichthyological faunal diversity of Digha coast by Manna and Goswami (1985), Goswami (1992), Talwar et al. (1992), Chatterjee et. al. (2000). In recent times, the studies made by Yennawar and Tudu (2010), Yennawar et al. (2011a, 2011b, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2012d), Mohapatra et. al. (2012a, 2012b, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c, 2015a, 2016), Ray et. al. (2012a, 2012b, 2013, 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2015c, 2015d, 2016), Ray and Mohapatra (2013, 2015a, 2015b, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c) added many more fishes to the list of Digha coast. During the routine efforts of maintain diversity of public aquarium in this Centre, around 103 species added to the existing species list of the area. The previous compilation of ichthyofauna of the region contributed 212 species from 145 genera and 88 families (Chatterjee et al., 2000) and 238 species from 72 families (Manna and Goswami, 1985; Goswami, 1992). The present study provides most updated list of ichthyofaunal diversity of Digha coast and 48 species are first time record to Digha locality and totalling the updated list to 340 species from the region. The present study gives updated checklist of ichthyofauna of the coast which may be helpful in conservation of local fauna and mass awareness among tourists visiting Digha as well as local administration.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127264211","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 Distributional Records of Actiniarian Sea Anemones from Andaman and Nicobar Islands","authors":"C. Raghunathan, Smitanjali Choudhury","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129287715","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":"Marine and Estuarine Crabs of Digha Coast","authors":"O. P. Srivastava","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121600326","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":"Scorpion Fauna (Arachnida: Scorpiones) of Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala with an Illustrated Key to the Families and Genera","authors":"K. Aswathi, P. M. Sureshan","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/118006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/118006","url":null,"abstract":"is lethal to man, such species are rare in India. When compared to the other parts of India, scorpion fauna of Kerala is poorly studied. As per the latest checklist by Bastawade et al. (2012), 19 species of scorpions under 8 genera and 3 families are reported from Kerala. By the description of a new species from Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary recently by Aswathi et al. (2015) the number of known taxa from Kerala has been raised to 22 species under 9 genera belonging to 3 families.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121150560","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":"An overview of Fishes of Dhule and Nandurbar Districts, Maharashtra, India","authors":"S. S. Patole, S. Jadhav","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/117288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I2/2017/117288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122847252","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":"Eight New Records of Birds from Great Nicobar Island, Andaman & Nicobar Islands","authors":"C. Sivaperuman, G. Gokulakrishnan","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134609080","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. Mitra, U. Chakraborti, K. Mallick, Subhrajit Bhaumik, P. Das
{"title":"An Updated List of Cerambycid Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Assam, India","authors":"B. Mitra, U. Chakraborti, K. Mallick, Subhrajit Bhaumik, P. Das","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117286","url":null,"abstract":"The study on long horned beetles from the northeast Indian state Assam is very poor with many species awaiting discovery, study and description. Among the seven sister states, cerambycid fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland are mostly worked out by the Zoological Survey of India and some other universities and institutions. But nothing has been published on the Cerambycidae fauna of Assam in particular (after separation from other states of north-east India).Therefore, an attempt has been made to prepare a consolidated and updated list of cerambycid beetles reported from Assam state after compilation of the published works on cerambycidae of India. The voluminous works on the cerambycid fauna in north east India were mostly done by Gahan (1894, 1906) and Breuning (1936, 1938a, 1938b, 1954, 1958, 1965). Afterwards, Kapur (1954), Basak and Biswas (1985), Mukhopadhyay and Biswas (2000a, 2000b), Ray Chaudhuri and Saha (2000), Mukhopadhyay and Halder (2003, 2004), Mukhopadhyay (2011), Saha et al. (2013), Mitra and Majumder (2014), Mitra et al. (2016a, 2016b,2016c) have reported some more species from Assam in their published works. Family Cerambycidae includes more than 35,000 species under 4,000 genera in 11 subfamilies in the world, therefore this beetle family is considered as one of important coleopteran family (Agarwala & Bhattacharjee, 2012). This communication is the first updated consolidated list of cerambycid beetles from the state of Assam (after complete separation from other states of NE India in 1987) which includes 95 species under 64 genera of 32 tribes belonging to 3 subfamilies along with their distribution.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129617452","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 Acridoidea (Insecta : Orthoptera) from Punjab, India","authors":"N. Sharma","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129664726","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":"Five New Species of Collembola (Isotomidae) from Jharkhand, India","authors":"G. Mandal, K. K. Suman, K. K. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.26515/rzsi/v117/i2/2017/117277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i2/2017/117277","url":null,"abstract":"The present study of collembolan fauna is based on collection made during 2012-2015, from different districts of Jharkhand, India, as a part of the “Annual Action Plan” of Apterygota section of Zoological Survey of India. Collembola, commonly called “spring-tails”, are small, entognathous, wingless hexapods possessing a spring-like forked jumping organ, the furcula, underneath the fourth abdominal segment. They are minute in size (less than 6 mm in length); antennae primarily with 4 segments. The presence of antennae and absence of cerci distinguish them from the other entognathous hexapods. The collembolans have very diverse distribution occurring in all Zoo-geographical regions of the world inhabiting a wide range of ecological niche and climate. The first record of Collembola was known from Ghatsila area of Jharkhand by the published work of Mandal & Hazra (2004). Thereafter, the present project was undertaken for extensive study of Collembola fauna of Jharkhand as per Annual Plan of Research Work of Apterygota section for the year 2012-2015. Mandal (2014a, b, c, 2015), Mandal and Hazra (2013), Mandal & Suman (2014) published Collembola from different sanctuaries of Jharkhand. Mandal, Suman & Bhattacharya (2016) published four new species of collembola from different districts of Jharkhand. The species belonging to the family Isotomidae, identified of the collembolan found are included into the genera, Proisotoma and Isotomurus. A total of 5 species of Collembola belonging to 2 genera under 2 sub families of family Isotomidae have been described as new to science from the state of Jharkhand, India. The detailed descriptions of each species of Collembola with discussion for difference between closely related species, total numbers of species in the world as well as from India, key to the Indian species and their distribution are also provided.","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128493269","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}
Dipanajan Ray, A. Mohapatra, S. S. Mishra, P. Yennawar, N. Ghorai
{"title":"Snappers (Perciformes : Lutjanidae) of West Bengal Coast with Eight New Records and a Key for their Identification","authors":"Dipanajan Ray, A. Mohapatra, S. S. Mishra, P. Yennawar, N. Ghorai","doi":"10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26515/RZSI/V117/I1/2017/117282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415799,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Zoological Survey of India","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125744958","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}