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FAUNA of MADHYA PRADESH (Including Chhattisgarh) ART-3 .' State Faulla Series, IS FAUNA OF MADHYA PRADESH (Including Chhattisgarh) (PART-3) Edited by The Director, Zoological Sun'ey of India, Kolka/a Zoological Survey of India Kolkata (ii) CITATION Editor-Director, 2011. Fauna of Mad~ya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh). State Fauna Series, 15(Part-3), 1-202 (Published by the Director, Zoo I. Surv. India, Kolkata) Published : December, 2011 ISBN 978-81-8171-300-1 Project Co-ordinator Dr. Kailasb Chandra Scientist-F M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053 © Gout. ofIndia, 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED • No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. • This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, re-sold hired out or otherwise disposed of without the publisher's consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. • The correct price of this publication is the price printed on this page. Any revised price indicated by a rubber stamp or by a sticker or by any other means is incorrect and should be unacceptable. PRICE India : ~ 775.00 Foreign : $ 50; £ 35 Published at the Publication Division by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053 and printed at Calcutta Repro Graphics, Kolkata-700 006. STATE FAUNA SERIES FAUNA OF MADHYA PRADESH Part-3 2011 1-202 CONTENTS 1. LAND AND FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA .......................................................................... 1-30 S.G. Patil and S.S. Talmale 2. FRESHWATER OSTRACODS (ARTHROPODA : CRUSTACEA) .................................. 33-44 D.K. Harshey and J. Thilak 3. CLADOCERA (ARTHROPODA : CRUSTACEA) ............................................................. 45-83 P.D. Rane 4. INSECTA : ISOJYfERA ....................................................................................................... 85-1 ()4 N. Saha and J. Basak 5. INSECTA: ORTHO~ERA .............................................................................................. 105-150 Kailash Chandra and Sunil Kumar Gupta 6. INSECTA : NEURO~ERA .............................................................................................. 151-165 Kailash Chandra, J. Thilak and Avtar Kaur Sidhu 7. INSECTA: DIP'fERA ....................................................................................................... 167-202 Bulganin Mitra, P. Parui and R.M. Sharma Zool. Surv. India Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh), State Fauna Series, lS(Part-3) : 1-30. 2011 LAND AND FRESHWATER· MOLLUSCA S.G. PATIL and S.S. TALMALE Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Regional Centre Vijay Nagar. Jabalpur-482002 INTRODUCTION From the literature compilation and identified collections, the molluscan fauna of Madhya The phylum Mollusca among invertebrate is Pradesh is represented by 72 species belonging Co one of the important second largest group of 38 genera, under 24 families. This list of land and animal kingdom on the basis of its species number. freshwater Mollusca of MadhyaPradesh State is They found on land, freshwater and most of them given on the basis of past and present records and are marine. Out of the seven classes of Mollusca from the recent surveys made in this area. The so far only five classes found in India. We are key is given in the text is based on Ramakrishna dealing herewith only two classes i.e. Gastropoda and Dey (2007) and Mitra et al. (2004) for and Bivalvia. Freshwater and Land Mollusca respectively. Mollusca are soft bodied animals and the body SYSTEMATIC LIST in many species is protected by calcareous shell. We are giving herewith only freshwater and land (A) FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA Mollusca. Terrestrial Mollusca are generally found Phylum MOLLUSCA near moist places, under leaf; bark of tree and Class GASTROPODA under stones, whereas freshwater Mollusca are Order MESOGASTROPODA found in various places like lentic and lotic water Superfamily VIVIPAROIDEA or embankment or on weed grasses or among macrophytes. The estimated number of Mollusca Family VIVIPARIDAE (pond snails) today varies from 80,000 species Boss (1971) to Subfamily BELLAMYINAE 1,35,000 species Abbott (1989). Genus BeUamya Jousseaume. 1886 Some of them are intermediate host for ). Bellamya bengalensis fonn typica (Lamarck) trematode parasites for spread of many diseases. 2. Be/lamya bengalensis form doliaris (Gould) The present study includes freshwater Gastropods 3. Bellamya bengalensis form eburnea and Bivalvia and few land Mollusca from (Annandale) MadhyaPradesh. A perusal of literature reveals 4. Bellamya bengalensis form mandiensis the work of many Malacologists; mention may be (Kobelt) made of Annandale (1919), Agarwal (1976, 1977 5. Be/lamya dissimilis (Mueller) & 1995), Agrawal & Mathur (1978), Subba Rao Family AMPULLARIDAE (1989), Subba Rao and Mitra (] 975, ) 979). Mookerjee et al. (2000), Surya Rao et al. (2002); Genus pj/Q (Bolten) Roeding. 1798 and PatH and Talmale (2005); Pati} and 6. Pi/a globosa (Swainson) Ramakrishna (2004). 7. Pi/a virens (Lamarck) 2 Fauna of Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh). State Fauna Series 15 Superfamily LIITORINOIDEA 24. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola form Family BITHYNIIDAE ovalis Gray Genus Bithynia Leach, 1818 25. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola form Subgenus Digoniostoma Annandale, 1920 succinea Deshayes 8. Bithynia (Digoniostoma) cerameopoma Superfamily PLANORBOIDEA (Benson) Family PLANORBIDAE 9. Bithynia (Digoniostoma) pulchella (Benson) Subfamily PLANORBINAE Family THIARIDAE Genus Gyraulus Charpentier, 1837 Subfamily THIARIINAE 26. Gyraulus convexiusculus (Hutton) Genus Thiara Roding, 1786 27. Gyraulus labiatus (Benson) Subgenus Thiara s. str. Family BULLINIDAE 10. Thiara (Thiara) scabra (Muller) Subfamily BULININAE 11. Thiara (Thiara) rudis (Lea) Genus Indoplanorhis Annandale & Prashad, Genus Melanoides Olivier, 1804 1921 12. Melanoides tuberculata (Mueller) 28. Indoplanorbis exustus (Deshayes) Genus Tarebia H & A Adams, 1854 Family ANCYLIDAE 13. Tarebia granifera (Lamarck) Subfamily FERRISSINAE 14. Tarebia lineata (Gray) Genus F errissia Walker, 1903 Subclass PULMONATA 29. Ferrissia verruca (Benson) Order BASOMMATOPHORA Class BIV AL'VIA Superfamily L YMNAEOIDEA Subclass PTERIOMORPHIA Family L YMNAEIDAE Order ARCOIDA Genus Lymnaea Lamarck, 1799 Superfamily ARCOIDEA 15. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata form. Family ARCIDAE typica Lamarck Subfamily ANADARINAE 16. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata form Genus Scaphula Benson, 1834 brevissima (Annandale & Rao) 30. Scaphula celox Benson, 1836 17. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata form chlamys Benson Subclass PALEOHETERODONTA 18. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata form Order TRIGOINOIDA gracilior Martens Superfamily UNIONOIDEA 19. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata form Family UNIONIDAE patula Troschel Subfamily AMBLEMINAE 20. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) acuminata form Tribe AMBLEMINI rufescens Gray Genus Lamellidens Simpson, 1900 21. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola form 31. Lamellidens corrianus (Lea) typ;ca Lamarck 32. Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck) 22. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola form australis Annandale & Rao Genus Pa"eysia Conrad,. 1853 23. Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) luteola form Subgenus Pa"eysia s. st. impura Troschel 33. Parreysia (Parreysia) corrugata Mueller PA TIL and T ALMALE : Land and freshwater mollusca 3 34. Parreysia (Parreysia) corrugata (Mueller) Family VERTIGINIDAE subsp. nagpoorensis (Lea) Subfamily TRUNCATELLININAE 35. Parreysia( Parreysia) favidens (Benson) Genus Boysia Pfeiffer, 1849 36. Parreysia (Parreysia) rajahensis (Lea) 48. Boysia boysi Pfeiffer Subgenus Radiatulo Simpson, 1900 Subfamily GASTROCOPTINAE 37. Parreysia (Radiatula) occata (Lea) Genus Gastrocopta Wollaston, 1878 38. Parreysia (Radiatula) shurtleffiana (Lea) 49. Gastrocopta bathyodon Benson Subclass HETERODONTA Family CERASTUIDAE Order VENEROIDA Genus Ceraslua Strand, 1928 Superfamily CORBICULOIDEA 50. Cerastua abyssinicus Pfeiffer Family CORBICULIDAE Genus Rachis Albers, 1850 Genus Corbiculo Mergerle von Muhlfeld 51. Rachis punctatus (Anton) 39. Corbicula striatella Deshayes 52. Rachis bengalensis Lamarck 40. Corbicula occidens Deshayes 53. Rachis praetermissus Blanford 41. Corbicula inflata Clessin Family FERUSSACIIDAE 42. Corbicula picta Clessin Genus Cecilioides Ferussac, 1807 Family PISIDIIDAE Subgenus Geoslilbia Crosse, 1867 Genus Pisidium Pfeiffer 54. Ceci/ioides (Geosti/bia) balanus (Reeve) Subgenus Afropisidium Kuiper, 1962 55. Cecilioides (Geostilbia) bensoni Gude 43. Pisidium (Afropisidium) nevillianum Theobald Genus Coilostele Benson, 1864 Genus Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777 56. Coilostele scalaris Benson 44. Sphaerium indicum Deshayes Family SUBULINIDAE Order SYSTELLOMMATOPHORA Subfamily SUBULININAE Family VERONICELLIDAE Genus SubulintJ Beck, 1837 Genus Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913 57. Subulina octona (Bruguiere) 45. Laevicaulis alte (Ferussac) Genus Glessulo Von Martens, 1850 58. Glessula paupercula (Blanford) (D) LAND MOLLUSCA 59. Glessula mullorum (Blanford) Phylum MOLLUSCA Genus. Lamellaxis Strebel and Pfeffer. 1882 Class GASTROPODA Subgenus Allopeas H.B. Baker. 1935 Subclass PROSOBRANCHIA 60. Lamellaxis (Allopeas) gracile (Hunon) Order MESOGASTROPODA Subfamily RUMININAE Subclass PULMONATA Genus Zoolecus Westerlund, 1887 Order STYLOMMATOPHORA 61. Zootecus chion (Pfeiffer) Family PUPILLIDAE 62. Zootecus insular;s (Ehrenberg) Subfamily PUPILLINAE Family ACHATINIDAE Genus Pupillo
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