Diversity and Distribution of Mammals in the Indian Himalayas

Kamalakannan, Manokaran; Venkatraman, C.; Sharma, Lalit Kumar

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“…Although the species P. alborufus has been reported from East Khasi hill, Meghalaya, India since 1995 based on museum specimen collected way back in 1847 and recently again from Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh in 2016, IUCN still not considered the species range within India (Das et al 1995;Krishna et al 2016). The species has neither been reported by Wilson and Reeder (2005); Pradhan and Talmale (2011); Sharma et al (2014) nor by Kamalakannan et al (2018). Similarly, Petaurista yunanensis has been long due to be considered as a validated species.…”

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“…Blyth's Mountain Vole or Phaiomys leucurus (Blyth 1863) is so far recorded only from the western Himalayas (Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh) in India (Wilson and Reeder 2005;Sharma et al 2014) whereas IUCN distribution map shows the species distribution in almost entire part of the eastern Sikkim. Kamalakannan et al (2018) has also mentioned this species to be present in the eastern Himalayas. Another species Mus booduga has been enlisted in the species list of Kamalakannan et al (2018) as distributed in eastern Himalayas, whereas the species has never been reported from any of the north eastern states so far (Agrawal 2000;Wilson and Reeder 2005;.…”

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“…Kamalakannan et al (2018) has also mentioned this species to be present in the eastern Himalayas. Another species Mus booduga has been enlisted in the species list of Kamalakannan et al (2018) as distributed in eastern Himalayas, whereas the species has never been reported from any of the north eastern states so far (Agrawal 2000;Wilson and Reeder 2005;. The species Leopoldamys sabanus (Thomas 1887) is reported from the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh but is not confirmed whether it is L. sabanus or any other species.…”

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“…Out of the recorded 59 species, Biswamoyopterus biswasi Saha, 1981, is considered to be as Critically Endangered as per IUCN Redlist, Hadromys humei (Thomas, 1886) as Endangered, Ratufa bicolor (Sparrman, 1778), Petaurista nobilis (Gray, 1842) and Petaurista mishmiensis Choudhury, 2009 listed as Near Threatened, Belomys pearsonii (Gray, 1942), Petaurista mechukaensis Choudhury, 2007, Berylmys mackenziei (Thomas, 1916, Berylmys manipulus (Thomas, 1916), Dacnomys millardi Thomas, 1916 and Diomys crumpi Thomas, 1917 as Data Deficient and two species, Petaurista yunanensis (Anderson, 1875) and Petaurista siangensis Choudhury, 2013 has not been listed so far (Table 1). Also, the present checklist reports five species of Genus Petaurista which has not been mentioned in the checklist of Indian mammals or Indian rodents before (Kamalakannan and Venkatraman 2017;Kamalakannan et al 2018) which may ensure the number of rodent species in India to be 105 species (Krishna et al 2016). Rest of the recorded Rodent species are Least Concerned as per the IUCN Redlist (Table 1).…”

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“…Das et al (1995) surveyed Meghalaya and reported presence of Funumbulus pennantii from Jayantia and Khasi hills and Sharma et al (2014) also listed the distribution of F. pennantii in the North-Eastern India. Further Kamalakannan et al (2018) listed this species to be distributed in eastern Himalaya whereas its presence from the eastern Himalaya by direct or indirect sightings are absent. Shyam and Saikia (2015) reported the species F. pennantii in their study from Assam which may have been misidentified with that of Tamiops macclellandii.…”

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In North Eastern states of India (NE India) there are almost 65% of mammal species of the country but baseline information on small mammals, particularly rodents, for the region is scanty. Present study recorded a total of 59 species of rodents from the NE India out of 100 species reported from Indian Subcontinent. The list contains all the valid taxonomic names and their distribution in the states of NE India. Additionally, five species has been added to the checklist of rodents in India. The list provided 59 species belonging to 30 genera under 5 families of 7 subfamilies. Among them Muridae was recorded to be with highest number of species (31 species), followed by Sciuridae with 22 species, Cricetidae with three species, while Spalacidae and Hystricidae have recorded only two species in each group. Among the eight states of NE India the highest number of species was recorded from Arunachal Pradesh (76 %) and the lowest, from Tripura (22%). Two Threatened, three Near Threatened, two Not Listed and six Data Deficient species have been listed from the present work with four endemic species from this region. The findings of this study indicated the requirements for intensive and extensive surveys in the north-eastern States of India and taxonomic revisions of many species.

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Butterflies are widely used to analyze biogeographical patterns, both at the global and regional scales. Thus far, most of the latter originated from well-surveyed northern regions, while the species-rich tropical areas lag due to a lack of appropriate data. We used checklists of 1379 butterfly species recorded in 36 federal states of the Republic of India (1) to explore the basic macroecological rules, and (2) to relate species richness and the distribution of endemics and geographic elements to geography, climate, land covers and socioeconomic conditions of the states. The area, land covers diversity and latitude did not affect species richness, whereas topographic diversity and the precipitation/temperature ratio (energy availability) were positive predictors. This is due the geographic and climatic idiosyncrasies of the Indian subcontinent, with its highest species richness in the small, densely forested mountainous northeast that receives summer monsoons. The peninsular effect that decreases the richness towards the tip of subcontinent is counterbalanced by the mountainous forested Western Ghats. Afrotropical elements are associated with savannahs, while Palearctic elements are associated with treeless habitats. The bulk of Indian butterfly richness, and the highest conservation priorities, overlap with global biodiversity hotspots, but the mountainous states of the Western Himalayas and the savannah states of peninsular India host distinctive faunas.

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Diversity and Distribution of Mammals in the Indian Himalayas

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Status, distribution and research gaps of rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia) in North-Eastern States of India

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Geography of Indian Butterflies: Patterns Revealed by Checklists of Federal States

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