Updated Checklist of Amphibians of India
released
An updated Checklist of
Amphibians of India was released on the Mhadei Research Center website today by
a team of research scientists.
The team comprising of
Dr. K P Dinesh from Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
Mr C Radhakrishnan retired Scientist of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Dr B.H.
Channakeshavamurthy from the Western Ghats Regional Centre (WGRC), Zoological
Survey of India (ZSI), Kerala, and Nirmal U Kulkarni from the Mhadei Research
Centre, Goa.
The present checklist is updated with all species names available till
January 2015 and enlists 382 species of amphibians from India, including 32
species listed recently from Goa that are marked with # and 217 species from
the Western Ghats of India that are marked with an asterix (*).
The authors have expressed gladness for the release of this updated
Checklist and hope that the downloadable version will help naturalists,
wildlife enthusiasts, students of herpetology as well the general public
interested in amphibians.
The Checklist has been updated
till January 2015 and will be regularly updated at periodic intervals according
to the need of new advances in amphibian studies as well as additions of new
descriptions of species.
The checklist is available on http://mhadeiresearchcenter.org/resources
as a free download. The website address of the Mhadei research center is www.mhadeiresearchcenter.org
The Mhadei Research Center
has been established to provide a platform for wildlife researchers to document
and study the biodiversity of the Mhadei Bio region that encompasses the states
of Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Established on the firm
foundations of carrying out field projects related to conservation biology and
data collection, the Center is also being developed as a repository of
scientific knowledge on the Bio region and a database source on the Northern
Western Ghats that are also known as the Sahyadris.
It also facilitates ecology
studies and training for students of wildlife sciences on a collaborative basis
in co ordination with official agencies including the Indian Institute of
Science, the Zoological Survey of India, the Botanical Survey of India, the
Madras Crocodile Bank trust and Center for Herpetology, the Wildlife
Conservation Society-India program and the Bombay Natural History Society
amongst others.
For details about the Checklist and the Mhadei Research Center contact-
Nirmal U Kulkarni – ophidian_nirmal@yahoo.co.in
