ISSN 0974-7907 (Online)
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January 2015
Vol. 7 | No. 1
Pages: 6739–6842
Taxa
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Date of Publication: 26 January 2015 (Online & Print)
DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.26jan15.6739-6842
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David Mallon, Zoological Society of London, UK
Davor Zanella, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Deepak Apte, Bombay Natural Hisotry Society, Mumbai, India.
Diana Doan-Crider, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
Dietmar Zinner, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany
E. Vivekanandan, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Chennai, India
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James Young, Hong Kong Lepidopterists’ Society, Hong Kong
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ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print)
January 2015 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | Pages: 6739–6842
Date of Publication: 26 January 2015 (Online & Print)
DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.26jan15.6739-6842
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Article
Habitat use and relative abundance of the Spotted Paca Cuniculus
paca (Linnaeus, 1766) (Rodentia: Cuniculidae) and the Red-rumped
Agouti Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Rodentia: Dasyproctidae)
in Guatopo National Park, Venezuela
-- Elinor Jax, Sofía Marín, Adriana Rodríguez-Ferraro & Emiliana IsasiCatalá, Pp. 6739–6749
First report of the female of Cheirochela assamensis Hope, 1841
(Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) from northeastern India
-- Shruti V. Paripatyadar, Sophio Riphung & H.V. Ghate, Pp. 6815–6820
A parasitic association of Odonata (Insecta) with Arrenurus Dugés,
1834 (Arachnida: Hydrachnida: Arrenuridae) water mites -- Raymond J. Andrew, Payal R. Verma & Nilesh R. Thaokar,
Pp. 6821–6825
Communications
Notes
Distribution of vultures in Uttar Pradesh, India
-- Kaushalendra Kumar Jha, Pp. 6750–6763
Cheirostylis Blume (Orchidaceae), a new generic record for the
Eastern Ghats, India
-- Prasad Kumar Dash, Avishek Bhattacharjee, Pankaj Kumar &
Pratyush Mohapatra, Pp. 6826–6829
Odonata of Maludam National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
-- Rory A. Dow, Robin Wen Jiang Ngiam & Rambli Ahmad, Pp. 6764–6773
The seasonality of butterflies in a semi-evergreen forest: Gibbon
Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, northeastern India
-- Arun P. Singh, Lina Gogoi & Jis Sebastain, Pp. 6774–6787
Diversity and distribution of Primula species in western Arunachal
Pradesh, eastern Himalayan region, India
-- Amal Bawri, Padma Raj Gajurel, Ashish Paul & Mohamed Latif Khan,
Pp. 6788–6795
Short Communications
A preliminary baseline status of the Syrian Brown Bear Ursus arctos
syriacus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ursidae) in Golestanak, northern Iran
-- Mohammad Sadegh Farhadinia & Negin Valizadegan, Pp. 6796–6799
A breeding site record of Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus (Aves:
Accipitriformes: Accipitridae) from Bejjur Reserve Forest, Telangana,
India
-- Swetha Stotrabhashyam, Bharath Reddy, Venugopal Satla & Imran
Siddiqui, Pp. 6800–6804
Were human babies used as bait in crocodile hunts in colonial Sri
Lanka?
-- Anslem de Silva & Ruchira Somaweera, Pp. 6805–6809
An extended distribution of Ceropegia odorata Nimmo ex J. Graham
(Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) to the state of Madhya Pradesh,
India
-- Shaikh Mujaffar, Sharad S. Kambale & Shrirang R. Yadav, Pp. 6830–
6832
Rediscovery of Syzygium kanarense (Talbot) Raizada (Myrtaceae) an endemic species of the Western Ghats, India
-- H.S. Shenoy, G. Krishnakumar & Ramakrishna Marati, Pp. 6833–
6835
A new species of Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae: Polistinae) from the southern Western Ghats, India
-- K.P. Mohammed Shareef, Lambert Kishore & P. Girish Kumar,
Pp. 6836–6838
Recent record of a rarely recorded species, the Veined Palmer Hidari
bhawani de Nicéville, 1888 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Aeromachini)
from Jorhat, Assam, India
-- Arun P. Singh, Pp. 6839–6840
Notes on the distribution, habitat, and behavior of Northern Tree
Shrew Tupaia belangeri (Mammalia: Scandentia: Tupaiidae) in
Tripura, India
-- Joydeb Majumder & B.K. Agarwala, Pp. 6841–6842
Population structure, length-weight and length-length relationships
of six populations of the Bartail Flathead Platycephalus
indicus (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) along the Persian Gulf
coastal waters
-- Hamed Mousavi-Sabet, Adeleh Heidari & Hakimeh Fekrandish,
Pp. 6810–6814
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