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Dietmar Zinner, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany
Dilip Chetry, Gibbon Conservation Centre, Mariani, Jorhat, Assam, India
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F.B. Vincent Florens, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Ferdinando Boero, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
Francesco Dal Grande, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt
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G. Umapathy, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
George Mathew, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, India
Gernot Vogel, Heidelberg, Germany
Giovanni Amori, CNR - Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Rome, Italy
Gombobaatar Sundev, Professor of Ornithology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Gowri Mallapur, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
H. Raghuram, The American College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
H.C. Nagaveni, Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru, India
Heidi S. Riddle, Riddle’s Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary, Arkansas, USA
Hem Sagar Baral, Charles Sturt University, NSW Australia
Hemant V. Ghate, Modern College, Pune, India
Heok Hee Ng, National University of Singapore, Science Drive, Singapore
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Honnavalli N. Kumara, SACON, Anaikatty P.O., Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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Ian J. Kitching, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, UK
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J.A. Johnson, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehra Dun, India
J.D. Marcus Knight, Velachery, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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James Young, Hong Kong Lepidopterists’ Society, Hong Kong
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Jesse Leland, Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia
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ISSN: 0974-7907 (Online), 0974-7893 (Print)
January 2014 | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | Pages: 5305–5420
Date of Publication: 26 January 2014 (Online & Print)
DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.26jan14.5305-5420
Comunications
Taxonomic reassessment of two Indian shieldtail snakes in
the Uropeltis ceylanicus species group (Reptilia: Uropeltidae)
-- S.R. Ganesh, R. Aengals & Eric Ramanujam, Pp. 5305–5314
On the little-known hyporheic biodiversity of India, with
annotated checklist of copepods and bathynellaceans
(Crustacea) and a note on the disastrous implications of
indiscriminate sand mining
-- Yenumula Ranga Reddy, Pp. 5315–5326
Seasonal diversity of butterflies and their larval food
plants in the surroundings of upper Neora Valley National
Park, a sub-tropical broad leaved hill forest in the eastern
Himalayan landscape, West Bengal, India
-- Panchali Sengupta, Kamal Kumar Banerjee & Narayan
Ghorai, Pp. 5327–5342
Conservation Application: Education
Wildlife art and illustration: drawing in ink - some
experiments in Auroville, India
-- M. Eric Ramanujam & S. Joss Brooks, Pp. 5343–5356
Short Comunications
Oreichthys andrewi (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) a new species
from Assam, northeastern India
--J.D. Marcus Knight, Pp. 5357–5361
Diversity, threats and conservation of catfish fauna of the
Krishna River, Sangli District, Maharashtra, India
-- Suresh M. Kumbar & Swapnali B. Lad, Pp. 5362–5367
Spawning and early development of the endemic and
threatened Yellow Catfish Horabagrus brachysoma (Günther,
1864) (Teleostei: Bagridae)
-- L. Bindu & K.G. Padmakumar, Pp. 5368–5374
Studies on fecundity and Gonadosomatic index of
Schizothorax plagiostomus (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)
-- Muneera Jan, Ulfat Jan & G. Mustafa Shah, Pp. 5375–5379
A review of the genus Epsilon de Saussure (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India
-- P. Girish Kumar, J.M. Carpenter & Lambert Kishore,
Pp. 5380–5385
Notes
A first record of Clanis hyperion Cadiou & Kitching, 1990
(Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Bhutan, and a preliminary
checklist of the hawkmoths of Mendrelgang, Bhutan
-- Irungbam Jatishwor Singh & Ian J. Kitching, Pp. 5386–5388
Diversity of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and
Hesperoidea) of Dachigam National Park, Jammu and
Kashmir, India
-- Aijaz Ahmad Qureshi, R.C. Bhagat & Deen Mohd Bhat,
Pp. 5389–5392
Longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from
Chhattisgarh, India
-- Amitava Majumder, Angshuman Raha, Bulganin Mitra,
H.V. Ghate & Kailash Chandra, Pp. 5393–5399
A preliminary survey on soil and plant parasitic nematodes
of southern Goa, India
-- A.C. Maria Lizanne & Irvathur Krishnananda Pai, Pp. 5400–
5412
Cyathea nilgirensis Holttum (Cyatheaceae: Pteridophyta): a
threatened tree fern from central Western Ghats, India
-- Sumesh N. Dudani, M.K. Mahesh, M.D. Subash Chandran &
T.V. Ramachandra, Pp. 5413–5416
Response & Reply
Comments on Hypselobarbus pulchellus part of the articles
by Knight et al. (2013a,b) published in JoTT
-- N. Basavaraja, Pp. 5417–5418
Reply to the response given by N. Basavaraja to Knight et al.
2013a&b
-- J.D. Marcus Knight, Ashwin Rai & Ronald K.P. D’souza,
Pp. 5419–5420
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