scholarly journals Erratum: K.P. DINESH, S.P. VIJAYAKUMAR, B.H. CHANNAKESHAVAMURTHY, VARUN R. TORSEKAR, NIRMAL U. KULKARNI & KARTIK SHANKER  (2015) SYSTEMATIC STATUS OF FEJERVARYA (AMPHIBIA, ANURA, DICROGLOSSIDAE) FROM SOUTH AND SE ASIA WITH THE  DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM THE WESTERN GHATS OF PENINSULAR INDIA. Zootaxa, 3999(1): 079–094.

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4033 (4) ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
K.P. DINESH ◽  
S.P. VIJAYAKUMAR ◽  
B.H. CHANNAKESHAVAMURTHY ◽  
VARUN R. TORSEKAR ◽  
NIRMAL U. KULKARNI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Systematic Status ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Systematic status of Fejervarya ((Amphibia, Anura, Dicroglossidae) from South and SE Asia with the description of a new species from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Zootaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3999 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.P. DINESH ◽  
S.P. VIJAYAKUMAR ◽  
B.H. CHANNAKESHAVAMURTHY ◽  
VARUN R. TORSEKAR ◽  
NIRMAL U. KULKARNI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Systematic Status ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

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. 

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.

Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4874 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-62
Author(s):  
ASHOK KUMAR MALLIK ◽  
ACHYUTHAN N. SRIKANTHAN ◽  
SAUNAK P. PAL ◽  
PRINCIA MARGARET D’SOUZA ◽  
KARTIK SHANKER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Genetic Divergence ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Cryptic Diversity ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Nomenclatural Change ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

We carried out a taxonomic revision of Ahaetulla species inhabiting Peninsular India, using a multiple criteria approach (including genetics, morphology, and geography). Our work included populations of the A. nasuta complex (widespread across the entire region, including the Western Ghats), the A. pulverulenta complex (in the Western Ghats, within Peninsular India) and the A. dispar complex (endemic to the Southern Western Ghats) which all revealed undocumented cryptic diversity. Here, we describe five new species and effect nomenclatural changes to some recognised taxa. In the A. nasuta complex, we describe four species from several latitudinal blocks of the Western Ghats and make nomenclatural emendations to the plains populations in the Indian peninsula. We effect nomenclatural change in the A. pulverulenta population of the Western Ghats and describe a new species from the A. dispar group. Our study highlights the use of a multi-criteria approach in unraveling cryptic diversity. This study also reveals a striking case of discordance between morphological and genetic divergence, and the way this is reflected in previous taxonomic and nomenclatural treatments of these populations. 

scholarly journals A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Wayanad region of peninsular India

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4778 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-342
Author(s):  
VIVEK PHILIP CYRIAC ◽  
SURYA NARAYANAN ◽  
FILIPA L. SAMPAIO ◽  
PAVUKANDY UMESH ◽  
DAVID J. GOWER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Type Series ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the shieldtail snake genus Rhinophis is described based on a type series of seven recently collected specimens from the Wayanad region of the Western Ghats of peninsular India. Rhinophis melanoleucus sp. nov. is diagnosed based on a combination of 15 dorsal scale rows at (or just behind) midbody, more than 215 ventral scales and a long rostral. The new species also has a distinctive (mostly black and white) colouration. A new key to the identification of Indian species of Rhinophis is provided. 

A new species of Prosopistoma Latreille, 1833 and redescription of P. indicum Peters, 1967 (Ephemeroptera: Prosopistomatidae) from the Western Ghats, India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4242 (3) ◽  
pp. 591 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. RAMYA ROOPA ◽  
C. SELVAKUMAR ◽  
K. A. SUBRAMANIAN ◽  
K. G. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Fresh Material ◽  
Central Western Ghats ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Prosopistoma someshwarensis n. sp. is described based on larvae collected from the streams of central Western Ghats, and P. indicum Peters, 1967 is redescribed based on fresh material from additional localities of the southern and central Western Ghats of peninsular India. A brief discussion on their ecology and biogeography, and a key to the Indian species of Prosopistoma, are also provided. The Indian species may be distinguished from one another based on the segmentation of the antennae, carapace colourations, the setation of the tibiae and mandibular canines, and the morphology of gills 2. 

A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4319 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
VARAD B. GIRI ◽  
V. DEEPAK ◽  
ASHOK CAPTAIN ◽  
ABHIJIT DAS ◽  
SANDEEP DAS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Threatened Habitat ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species

Based on analyses of new DNA sequence data for two nuclear (rag1, cmos) and three mitochondrial (16s, cytb, nd4) genes, the Indian snake genus Rhabdops is a natricine. Variation in geography, DNA sequences, the number of ventral scales, pattern and colour for samples of Rhabdops from along the Western Ghats region of peninsular India is concordant, discontinuous and bimodal. We recognise populations from the northern Western Ghats as distinct specifically from the more southerly R. olivaceus and describe Rhabdops aquaticus sp. nov. based on a series of eight specimens from two localities in the Northern Western Ghats. Rhabdops aquaticus sp. nov. is associated particularly with upland laterite plateaus and their associated streams, a threatened habitat within its known distribution. 

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.

A new species of the previously monotypic genus Iningainema (Cyanobacteria, Scytonemataceae) from the Western Ghats, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yevhen Maltsev ◽  
Elena Kezlya ◽  
Svetlana Maltseva ◽  
Balasubramanian Karthick ◽  
Petr Dvořák ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
A New Species
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