Faunal Diversity of Indian Himalaya

About this book

Language: English

For more than a century, the Zoological Survey of India has been conducting faunal survey explorations, research and documentation of the faunal diversity of the varied biogeographic zones of the country, including the Indian Himalayan Region. A careful assessment of the faunal diversity currently known from the Indian Himalaya, one of the most significant biogeographic zones of the country, revealed that the level of faunal diversity richness of this biotic zone is very substantial. So far, no one has made an attempt to consolidate that information based on authentic validation of the faunal diversity hitherto known or reported from this region. The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) took up this task with the involvement of all the taxonomic experts of various taxa, from Protozoa to Mammalia. It was an inclusive process combining the extraction of metadata of species – from the available relevant literature – documented or recorded from the Indian Himalayan biogeographic zone, integration of the up-to-date data on the exploratory inventorying work on taxa of this region by ZSL researchers, and collation of the most-updated taxonomic nomenclature in species-validation of taxa
of diverse groups, etc.

This book is the outcome of that task – the first attempt to give a comprehensive and up-to-date inventory on the faunal diversity of the Indian Himalaya. Eighty-five taxonomic experts and specialists of various groups of fauna, from Protozoa to Mammalia, have actively collaborated and contributed 52 chapters on the fauna of their respective field of interest and study.

Contents

1. Faunal diversity of Indian Himalaya - an overview/Chandra K. Gupta, D. Gopi, K.C. Tripathy, B. Kumar, V. Mandal, K. Kumar H. and Saini J
2. Protozoa (Free-living)/Bindu L., Jasmine, P., Das, A.K., Nandi, N.C. and Kumar S
3. Protozoa (Parasitic)/Chitra, J
4. Protozoa (Symbiotic)/Chitra, J
5. Platyhelminthes/Ghosh, A. and Maity, P
6. Rotifera/Chitra, J
7. Nematoda (Nematode parasites of vertebrates)/Maity, P. and Rizvi, A.N
8. Nematoda (Soil inhabiting nematodes)/Rizvi, A.N. Sen, D., Maity, P. and Kumar, H
9. Acanthocephala/Saini J., Kumar, H. , Das, P., Ghosh, J., Gupta, D. and Chandra, K
10. Annelida: Oligochaeta/Mandal, C.K. and Kumar H
11. Annelida: Hirudinea/Mandal, C.K. and Kumar H
12. Arachnida: Scorpiones/Aswathi K. and Sureshan P.M
13. Arachnida: Acari (Ticks)/Acharya, S
14. Arachnida: Acari (Mites)/Acharya, S
15. Arachnida: Araneae/Caleb, J.T.D. and Kumar, V
16. Crustacea/Valarmathi, K
17. Collembola/Mandal, G.P
18. Insecta: Achaeognatha/Mandal, G.P
19. Insecta: Zygentoma/Mandal,  G.P
20. Insecta: Ephemeroptera/Selvakumar, C
21. Insecta: Odonata/Subramanian, K.A. and Babu, R
22. Insecta: Orthoptera/Gupta, S.K. and Chandra, K
23. Insecta: Phasmida/Das, S.K. and Chand, D.S
24. Insecta: Embioptera/Chandra, K., Gupta, D. and Mukherjee, T
25. Insecta: Plecoptera/Selvakumar, C
26. Insecta: Dermaptera/Deepak, C.K. and Ghosh, D
27. Insecta: Mantodea/Chand, D.S. and Das, S.K
28. Insecta: Blattodea (Cockroaches)/Prabakaran, S. and Senraj, M
29. Insecta: Blattodea: Isoptera/Rajmohana, K. and Rituparna, S
30. Insecta: Psocodea: Psocoptera/Ramesh, G. Babu, R. and Subramanian, K.A
31. Insecta: Phthiraptera/Chatterjee, P. Payra, A. and Sen, S
32. Insecta: Thysanoptera/Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V
33. Insecta: Hemiptera/Chandra, K., Hassan, M.E., Mukherjee, P. Kushwaha, S. and Mukhopadhyay, E
34. Insecta: Hymenoptera/Rajmohana, K. Saini, J., Girish Kumar, P. and Patra S
35. Insecta: Coleoptera/Gupta, D., Chandra, K., Das, P. and Ghosh, J
36. Insecta: Neuroptera/Halder, S. Mukherjee, T., Gupta, D. and Chandra K
37. Insecta: Megaloptera/Kumar, H., Saini, J. Ghosh, J., Das, P., Gupta, D. and Chandra, K
38. Insecta: Trichoptera/Selvakumar, C
39. Insecta: Lepidoptera (Butterflies)/Das, G.N., Gayen, S., Ali M., Jaiswal, R.K., Lenin, E.A. and Chandra, K
40. Insecta: Lepidoptera (Moths)/Sanyal, A.K., Mallick, K., Khan, S., Bandyopadhyay, U., Mazumder, A., Bhattacharyya, K. Pathania, P.C., Raha, A. and Chandra, K
41. Insecta: Diptera/Banerjee, D., Naskar., A. Sengupta, J. Hazra, S. and Maity, A
42. Insecta: Siphonaptera/Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Saini, J., Mukherjee, T. and Das, P
43. Insecta : Mecoptera/Chandra, K., Gupta, D.,  Kumar, H. and Ghosh, J
44. Myriapoda: Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha/Sureshan, P.M. and Balan, D
45. Myriapoda: Diplopoda/Sureshan, P.M., Chezhian, Y. and Prabakaran, S
46. Tardigrada/Dey, P.K. and Mondal, K
47. Mollusca/Tripathy, B., Sajan, S.K. and Mukhopadhyay, A
48. Pisces/Gopi, K.C., Kosygin L. and Mishra, S.S
49. Amphibia/Deuti, K
50. Reptilia/Varadaraju and Deepak, C.K
51. Aves (Birds)/Mandal, K., Bhattacharya, K., Chatterjee, P., Dey, P.K., Maheshwaran, G. and Alam, I
52. Mammalia/Kamalakannan, M. , Sharma, L.K. and Venkatraman, C.

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