Transportation of radionuclides from Western Ghats to Arabian sea through some major rivers of South India

AbstractWe noticed an uncommon phenomenon of female vocalization in the forest litter frog, Rana curtipes during the breeding season. We digitally recorded the male and female vocalization of the litter frogs in the tropical rain forests of the Western Ghats of South India and analyzed the call characteristics. The female call varied from the male call by being single note in composition. In contrast, the male calls were composed of seven to eight notes and longer in duration. We observed that gravid females, occupying the same location every day, emitted low volume calls when numerous males were found calling at that time. Some females arrived asynchronously and called even in the absence of males possibly to declare their receptive condition. Calling females responded agonistically to receptive conspecifics of the same sex. In addition to declaring receptivity, this calling behavior may be a response to adjacent competing females when the males are few.

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Genetic variation and population structure inOryza malampuzhaensis Krish.et Chand. endemic to Western Ghats, South India

Journal of Genetics ◽

10.1007/bf02717910 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 80 (3) ◽

pp. 141-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

George Thomas ◽

Sreejayan ◽

Latha Joseph ◽

Philomena Kuriachan

Keyword(s):

Population Structure ◽

Genetic Variation ◽

Western Ghats ◽

South India

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Impacts of Forest Fragmentation on Lion-Tailed Macaque and Nilgiri Langur in Western Ghats, South India

Primates in Fragments ◽

10.1007/978-1-4757-3770-7_12 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 163-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Govindasamy Umapathy ◽

Ajith Kumar

Keyword(s):

Forest Fragmentation ◽

Western Ghats ◽

South India ◽

Nilgiri Langur

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A new species of Simulium (Gomphostilbia) (Diptera: Simuliidae) from South India

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4551.4.8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4551 (4) ◽

pp. 479 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SANKARAPPAN ANBALAGAN ◽

SURULIYANDI VIJAYAN ◽

SUNDARAM DINAKARAN ◽

MUTHUKALINGAN KRISHNAN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Related Species ◽

Western Ghats ◽

South India ◽

Species Group ◽

Arrow Head ◽

Brownish Black ◽

A New Species

Simulium (Gomphostilbia) kumbakkaraiense sp. n. is described based on adults, pupae and mature larvae from Kumbakkarai stream, in the Palani Hills of Western Ghats, South India. This new species is placed in the Simulium batoense species-group of the subgenus Gomphostilbia Enderlein. This new species is characterized by a scutum with three brownish-black longitudinal vittae and hind basitarsus in the female 5.3 times as long as wide, and in male the large facets of the upper eye in 13 vertical columns and 14 horizontal rows, the respiratory gill with short common basal in the pupa and postgenal cleft arrow-head-shaped in the larva. Taxonomic notes are provided to distinguish this new species from related species. [Zoobank register: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C575FB25-B6B2-414B-AE11-0468A1871DFA]

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MEMECYLON NERVOSUM (MELASTOMATACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM SOUTH INDIA

Edinburgh Journal of Botany ◽

10.1017/s0960428620000050 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 77 (3) ◽

pp. 403-411

Author(s):

R. G. Vadhyar ◽

J. H. F. Benjamin ◽

K. A. Sujana

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Western Ghats ◽

South India ◽

Wildlife Sanctuary ◽

A New Species

Memecylon nervosum Vadhyar, J.H.F.Benj. & Sujana, a new species of Melastomataceae from the Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India, is described and illustrated. It is compared with the closely allied Memecylon heyneanum Benth. and Memecylon jambosioides Wight.

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