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- New Distributional Records of Thrips (Insecta:Thysanoptera) from Odisha State of India
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1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata-700053, IN
1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata-700053, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 116, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 191-195Abstract
Thrips are economically important insect ranging from 1 to 15 mm and belong to order Thysanoptera. The order Thysanoptera is classified into two suborders Terebrantia and Tubulifera with 9 families (ThripsWiki 2016). Worldwide 6102 species of thrips are reported so far, of which 739 species recorded from India (ThripsWiki 2016; Tyagi&Kumar 2016). The members of insect order Thysanoptera are reported as pest on a wide variety of agricultural and horticultural crops and few of them are predators on thrips species and some other insects like aphids and mites. Some of them also act as vectors of Tospoviruses on a number of different plant families like Tomato, Capsicum etc.Full Text
- New Record of Moundinothrips robustus Bhatti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh State of India
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Kaomud Tyagi
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Vikas Kumar
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1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy (CDT), Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, IN
1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy (CDT), Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 115, No 1 (2015), Pagination: 97-99Abstract
Moundinothrips robustus is a rare species and was described based on one female specimen collected from dead twigs at Java, Indonesia (Bhatti 1995). Subsequently this species was reported from Punjab state of India based on single female collected on fern (Bhatti et al., 2006). A female specimen was collected on fern from Himachal Pradesh state of India in our recent survey (2014-2015). The objective of this paper to report this species first time from Himachal Pradesh of India with DNA barcode data. The female are compared with the original description provided by Bhatti 1995.Full Text
- New Records of Thrips (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India
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Kaomud Tyagi
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Vikas Kumar
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1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, IN
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 114, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 591-598Abstract
Thrips are very small, fringed insect and belonging to the order Thysanoptera. The order Thysanoptera includes approximately 3500 species of Terebrantia reported across globally (ThripsWiki, 2014). The suborder Terebrantia represented by 290 species of 124 genera in Indian sub-region, of which 29 species are reported from Himachal Pradesh (Bhatti 1990). During the recent surveysin 2012-13 of Himachal Pradesh, 13 species of thrips have been identified and are being added to the fauna of state for the first time. All these new records are belong to subfamily Thripinae of family Thripidae of suborder Terebrantia.Full Text
- New Record of Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) from West Bengal, India
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1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, IN
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 114, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 599-602Abstract
Thrips are fringed insects, ranging from 1 mm to 15 mm in size, belongs to the order Thysanoptera. The order Thysanoptera is subdivided into two suborders Terebrantia and Tubulifera with 9 families (Mound, Heming and Palmer, 1980). It includes approximately 6000 species across the globe (ThripsWiki, 2014), of which 700 species are reported from India (Ananthakrishnan & Sen 1980, Bhatti 1990).Full Text
- Thysanoptera Fauna of Chhattisgarh India
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Kaomud Tyagi
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Vikas Kumar
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1 Zoological Survey of India, M. Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, IN
1 Zoological Survey of India, M. Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 113, No 4 (2013), Pagination: 133-138Abstract
Order Thysanoptera include approximately 6000 species across the globe in which nearly 700 species are reported from India (Thrips Wiki 2013), accounting for about 10% of the total world fauna. In spite of excellent efforts on taxonomy to reveal the biodiversity of these tiny (1-2 mm), and economically important insect (as crop pest and vectors for tospoviruses) in India, we still have geographical regions which are practically unsurveyed for thrips biodiversity; Chhattisgarh is one of them along with Gujarat, Odisha and Sikkim etc.Full Text
- First report of Psechrus inflatus Bayer (Araneae:Psechridae) from India
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1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata – 700053, West Bengal, IN
1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata – 700053, West Bengal, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 117, No 4 (2017), Pagination: 391-393Abstract
Psechrus inflatus Bayer, 2012 previously known from China, is recorded for the first time in India. Partial sequence data of mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase (mtCOI) was generated and is submitted in BOLD.Keywords
Assam, DNA Barcoding, mtCOI Gene, New Record, Taxonomy.Full Text
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- Detection of Helminth Parasites in Commercialized Turtles: Threats to Native Testudines in Northeast India
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Shantanu Kundu
1,
Pallab Maity
1,
Anjum N. Rizvi
1,
Kaomud Tyagi
1,
Kailash Chandra
1,
Vikas Kumar
1
Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, IN
1 Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 120, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 99-103Abstract
approaches is poorly adopted for their proper conservation. The present study examined the commercialized turtles in northeast India and reported the presence of helminth parasites (nematodes and trematodes) in three highly threatened turtles, Nilssonia gangetica, Nilssonia nigrican, and Chitra indica. Both N. gangetica and N. nigricans have been found to be the first host records of the trematode, Astiotrema reniferum. Further, C. indica is a new host record for the trematode, Stunkardia dilymphosa, which assumed to be host specific suitability due to difference in body size. Additionally, the study highlighted the urgent need of enforcing the veterinary studiKeywords
Testudines, Helminths, Northeast India, Conservation Management.Full Text
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- Molecular investigation of Cavernicoles from Kotumsar Cave in Northern Eastern Ghats, India
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Authors
Boni Amin Laskar
1,
Shantanu Kundu
2,
Rehanuma Sulthana
1,
Harikumar Adimalla
3,
Deepa Jaiswal
1,
Kaomud Tyagi
2,
Vikas Kumar
2,
Kailash Chandra
1
Affiliations
1 Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad − 500048, Telangana, IN
2 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata − 700053, West Bengal, IN
3 House No. 2-60, Village Turkapalle, Nalgonda − 508266, Telangana, IN
1 Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad − 500048, Telangana, IN
2 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata − 700053, West Bengal, IN
3 House No. 2-60, Village Turkapalle, Nalgonda − 508266, Telangana, IN
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 121, No 3 (2021), Pagination: 337–345Abstract
The Kotumsar cave is situated in the Eastern Ghats and has been reported by the existence of 14 different organisms morphologically. To reassess the living taxa and hitherto unreported organisms, intervention of molecular tool is required to corroborate the exact faunal diversity. In the present study, we dealt with the environmental samples and opportunistically encountered living specimens from both deep and transition zones of the Kotumsar cave. The morphological and integrated approach confirmed the existence of Rhinolophus rouxii (Medellin et al., 2017) (bat), Kempiola shankari Sinha and Agarwal, 1977 (cricket), Heteropoda leprosa Simon, 1884 (spider). Further, the collected environmental DNA (eDNA) samples were successfully identified as Fejervarya pierrei (Dubois, 1975) (frog), Indoreonectes evezardi (Day, 1872) (fish), Metrocoris sp. (true bug), Barytelphusa cunicularis (Westwood, 1836) (crab), Trigoniulidae sp. (millipede), and Megascolecidae sp. (worm). Hence, the present investigation through combined approaches by both morphological and molecular data helps to add six more organisms to the faunal checklist of Kotumsar cave. The study also contributed the genetic information of cavernicoles in the global database from India. This genetic information would further help to pursuing other biological studies and adopt better conservation strategies of cave-dwelling organisms and restoration of the colligated ecosystem.Keywords
Cave Fauna, Conservation, DNA Barcoding, Environmental DNA (eDNA), New RecordFull Text
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- Molecular identification of mimetic Mock Viper, Psammodynastes pulverulentus (Boie, 1827) (Reptilia: Squamata: Lamprophiidae) from Northeast India
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Shantanu Kundu
1,
Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga
2,
Lal Biakzuala
2,
Kaomud Tyagi
3,
Kailash Chandra
3,
Vikas Kumar
1
Affiliations
1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore – 700053, Kolkata, IN
2 Developmental Biology and Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Mizoram University Aizawl – 796004, Mizoram, IN
3 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore – 700053, Kolkata
1 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore – 700053, Kolkata, IN
2 Developmental Biology and Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Mizoram University Aizawl – 796004, Mizoram, IN
3 Centre for DNA Taxonomy, Molecular Systematics Division, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore – 700053, Kolkata
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Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 121, No 4 (2021), Pagination: 521-526Abstract
The genetic information (mtCytb) of wide-spread Mock Viper, Psammodynastes pulverulentus is restricted to China and Myanmar. We collected the live individual of P. pulverulentus from Mizoram state in northeast India and generate the partial mtCytb data to affirm the morphology-based species identification. The generated DNA data showed 94.67% similarity with the sequences generated from Myanmar; however, 92.59% to 92.98% similarity with the sequences generated from China through BLAST results. In comparison with other recognized families and subfamilies of alethinophidian and scolecophidians snakes, the studied species depicted discrete clade in the Bayesian Inference (BI) analysis and closely related with the sister species Psammodynastes pictus. The haplotype network revealed distinct haplotype of P. pulverulentus collected from northeast India with 6.6% and 8.9% to 9.6% Kimura 2 parameter (K2P) genetic distance with the Burmese and Chinese collections respectively. The study elucidates the possible cryptic diversity of P. pulverulentus within its wide range distribution, which requires further large-scale attempts with more genetic information to adjudicate the actual diversity.Keywords
Mimicry, Mitochondrial DNA, Ophidian, Phylogeny, Taxonomy.Full Text
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