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In this volume the authors have described all 18 species of skink found in Eastern and North-eastern India in a single format, and also catalogued all the skink specimens from this vast area, present in the collections of the Zoological Survey India, Kolkata. The authors have also tried to include whatever is known about their live colour, habits, habitat, food, breeding behavior, distribution and status so that researchers, students and the interested layman can ...
This book provides detailed information about 78 species of Indian amphibians which are threatened according to International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) categorization. These are Red listed under four categories, Critically Endangered (17 species), Endangered (32 species), Vulnerable (22 species) and Near Threatened (7 species). The actual causes and extent of decline of each of the 78 threatened species of Indian amphibians ...
This Handbook on Himalayan Salamander is the first of its kind on the unique and rare tailed amphibian, the only species of the Order Urodela found in India. It is a keystone species of the Lentic habitats in the Eastern Himalaya. Little is known about its biology, but what is certain about them is that unless their wetland habitats survive they cannot breed. The authors have done a detailed survey enabling themselves to determine the breeding habitats of this ...