Navicula watveae sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae) a new diatom species from the Western Ghats, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 433 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
CHERAN RADHAKRISHNAN ◽  
SAMADHAN PARDHI ◽  
MAXIM KULIKOVSKIY ◽  
J. PATRICK KOCIOLEK ◽  
BALASUBRAMANIAN KARTHICK
Keyword(s):  
Western Ghats ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Diatom Species ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Small Stream ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Navicula sensu stricto is described from a small stream from the Kaas Plateau in the northern part of the Western Ghats of India. The species is presented with light and scanning electron microscopy, and compared with similar species like Navicula reinhardtii, N sovereignii, N. aurora and N. gogorevii. This taxon is characterized by rhomboid shape, elongated lineolae, short striae at the central area giving a distinctive shape, and narrowly-rounded apices. The discovery of this taxon signifies that a significant number of species to be discovered in this biodiverse region of peninsular India, especially unique habitats like lateritic plateaus.

Bryocrumia Malabarica Spec. Nova (Bryophyta, Hypnaceae), A Second Species of the Genus from the Western Ghats of India

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
C. N. Manju ◽  
B. Prajitha ◽  
R. Prakashkumar ◽  
W. Z. Ma
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Evergreen Forest ◽  
Stream Channel ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Central Strand ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species similar to Bryocrumia vivicolor, the only known species in the genus Bryocrumia, is described as Bryocrumia malabarica spec. nova from the Malabar Wildlife Sanctuary in the Western Ghats of Kerala in Peninsular India. It resembles Homalia in external appearance and was collected in a rheophytic habitat along a stream channel in the evergreen forest. The new species is characterised by closely arranged leaves with distinct tricostate, ovate-rounded to truncate leaves, upper margin of leaf rounded with fine serrations and an inconspicuous central strand in stem cross section.

scholarly journals A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Anaikatty Hills of the Western Ghats of India

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4415 (3) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.J. JINS ◽  
FILIPA L. SAMPAIO ◽  
DAVID J. GOWER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Snake Fungal Disease ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Uropeltis is described from a series of six type specimens from the Anaikatty Hills of the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, peninsular India. Uropeltis bhupathyi sp. nov. is distinguished from congeners by having more than 200 ventral scales, 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody and by the size and shape of the rostral and frontal shields. Although tens of specimens have been seen in the vicinity of the type locality (and previously reported as U. ellioti), the new species is known only from this locality and faces threats from road traffic, habitat loss and change, and possibly a condition that deforms heads and head shields which is at least superficially similar to snake fungal disease reported from wild snakes in North America and Europe.

First record of the myrmicine ant genus Syllophopsis Santschi, 1915 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India with description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4985 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
SHAHID ALI AKBAR ◽  
HIMENDER BHARTI ◽  
MARIUSZ KANTURSKI ◽  
AIJAZ AHMAD WACHKOO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
National Park ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
First Record ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Here we describe and illustrate Syllophopsis peetersi sp. nov. from Silent Valley National Park, a biodiversity hotspot region of the Western Ghats of India. The discovery also marks a first native report of the genus from the Indian subcontinent. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis was carried out to elucidate the general morphology and sensilla of the new species. The new species is similar to congeners from Madagascar, but with larger differences from species that occur elsewhere.

Dario urops, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats, southern India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3348 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALF BRITZ ◽  
ANVAR ALI ◽  
SIBY PHILIP
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Caudal Peduncle ◽  
Small Stream ◽  
Dorsal Fin ◽  
Anterior Dorsal ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Fin Spines

Dario urops, new species, is described from a small stream of the Barapole tributary of Valapattanam River in southern Karna-taka and from Wayanad District, Kerala. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of a conspicuous blackblotch on the caudal peduncle and a horizontal suborbital stripe, by the anterior dorsal fin lappets in males not being produced beyond fin spines, and by its vertebral count.

A new species of rock-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4571 (3) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
AKSHAY KHANDEKAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the gekkonid genus Cnemaspis is described based on a series of nine specimens from near Sankari in Salem district, Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The new species is diagnosable by the following suite of characters: a small-sized Cnemaspis (adult snout to vent length less than 33 mm); heterogeneous dorsal pholidosis consisting of weakly keeled granular scales intermixed with large strongly keeled, conical tubercles, 9–11 rows of dorsal tubercles, 12–17 tubercles in paravertebral rows; spine-like scales absent on flank, 17–20 lamellae under digit IV of pes. Males with 4–6 femoral pores on each thigh, separated on either side by eight poreless scales from four precloacal pores; precloacal pores separated medially by a single poreless scale; two single dorsal ocelli on occiput and between forelimb insertions, two pairs of ocelli on either side just anterior and posterior to forelimb insertions. Cnemaspis agarwali sp. nov. is the fifth endemic species of Cnemaspis from peninsular India outside the Western Ghats and highlights the rich and unique diversity of this understudied region. 

A new species of Chlorophytum (Asparagaceae) from Madhya Pradesh, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 291 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
MUJAFFAR SHAIKH ◽  
ARJUN PRASAD TIWARI ◽  
ARUN NIVRUTTI CHANDORE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Old World ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Old World Tropics ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

The genus Chlorophytum Ker Gawler (1808: 1071) is one of the major genera of family Asparagaceae, with about 190 species (Govaerts et al. 2015). It is distributed in the old world tropics, especially in Africa, Asia and Australia (Poulsen & Nordal 2005, Mabberley 2005). According to Malpure & Yadav (2009) the genus is represented by 17 species in India, of which 15 is occur in the Western Ghats. Recently, four more species of Chlorophytum have been described from Western Ghats of India: Chlorophytum belgaumense Chandore et al. (2012: 527), C. sharmae Adsul et al. (2014: 9503), C. palghatense K.M.P. Kumar & Adsul in Kumar et al. (2014: 282) and C. clivorum Mathew & George (2015: 379).

Dario neela, a new species of badid fish from the Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Badidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4429 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
RALF BRITZ ◽  
V.K. ANOOP ◽  
NEELESH DAHANUKAR
Keyword(s):  
Western Ghats ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
Tributary Stream ◽  
Black Blotch ◽  
Median Fins ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Small Tributary ◽  
Pelvic Fin

Dario neela, is described from a small tributary stream of the Kabini River in northern Kerala, India. It can be distinguished from congeners by the male colouration in life, which shows wide rims of iridescent blue in all median fins and the pelvic fin. It is further distinguished from all species of Dario, except D. urops by the number of abdominal vertebrae (14 vs. 11–13), and from all Dario species except D. urops and D. huli by the presence of a conspicuous black blotch on the caudal-fin base. Dario neela is distinguished from D. urops by the absence of the horizontal suborbital stripe and presence of a series of up to eight black bars on the body; and from D. huli by 27–28 vertebrae and 27 scales in a lateral row and the absence of teeth from hypobranchial 3. Dario neela is genetically divergent from both Western Ghats congeners in the mitochondrial CO1 gene, showing an uncorrected p-distance of 5.9% with D. urops and 13.1% to D. huli. 

Chlorophytum gothanense, a new species of Anthericaceae from the Western Ghats of India

Kew Bulletin ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilesh V. Malpure ◽  
S. R. Yadav
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from the Western Ghats of India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4221 (4) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
R.R. RACHANA ◽  
R. VARATHARAJAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Brownish Yellow ◽  
Hydrangea Macrophylla ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Thrips laurencei sp.n. is described from specimens collected on flowers of Hydrangea macrophylla in Western Ghats range of Tamil Nadu, India. This new species shows sexual dimorphism in colour, with the females brownish yellow with brown shadings but the males uniformly yellow.  

Micromitrium vazhanicum (Micromitriaceae; Bryophyta) a new species from the Western Ghats of India

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
C. N. Manju ◽  
V. K. Chandini ◽  
K. P. Rajesh
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species
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