The present Fauna of India Volume-III deals with Serpents is the third and last volume of the Group. This book contains status of 326 species and subspecies of the suborder Serpentes distributed in 87 genera and 11 families with valid scientific names. This volume explains the complete account of taxonomic work of all the species and subspecies of snakes of India and adjacent areas viz; Pakistan, Nepal, Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Habit and habitats, status, conservation and captive breeding of the selected species, ecology, distribution and zoogeography is also explained in this volume, with the line drawings.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R C Sharma
Prof. R.C. Sharma headed important Museums of the country like Government Museum, Mathura; State Museum, Lucknow; Indian Museum,, Kolkata and finally, the Natioinal Museum, New Delhi as the Director-General and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute. He also served the Banaras Hindu University as the Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan and Professor of Indian art and Museology. Presently, he is the Honorary Director / Acharya of Jnana-Pravaha – Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi. Beside authoring several books and editing journals and bulletins in the field of Early Indian Art, he has contributed a large number of papers published in the journals in India and abroad.
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