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Download Entire Issue (PDF) Volume 02 (P,art 1-2) Zoo_ogical Survey of India 2004 ecords oft e Zoo ogicaJ Survey of India Edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata Zoo ogicaJ Survey of I ' dia Ko.kata 2004 CITATION Editor-Dire'ctor. 2004. R,ec. zool. Surv.lndia, 102 (Part 1--2) : i-vi, 1... 186 (Published by the Director, Zool. Surv. India, Kolkata) Published - January, 2004 '©Gove,mment of India, 2004 ALL RIG TS R S RVED • No part of this publication may be reproduc,ed, stored in a retrieval sysl-em or transmitted, in any form or by any means" electr,onic, Imechan'ica', 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 'ot trade" be lent, re .. sold hired out or otherwise disposed of without the pubfi:sher's consent, in any torm of binding or c'over other than that in 'which it is pubUshed. I I. 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A LFRED Director Zoological Surv,ey 'Of India AN APPEAL In order to enrich the ((National Zoolog.ical Collection" (NZC) and to up date infonnation on the occurrence ,and distribution ,of animal species in India Scientists/Naturalists and researchers working on ,animal taxonomy/sys'tematics are requested (:0 deposit their identified specimens to the Zoological Surv,ey of India at the following ,address : Officer in Charge, Identification ,and Advisory Section, Zoological Surv,ey of India, 2nd M. S. O.Building, Nizam Palace, 234/4, A. J. C. 'Bose Road, Kolkata.. 700 020. These specimens will be r,egistered and their data will be computerised,. They are further requ,e.sted to deposit their type collection positively of ZSI and us,e the Registration nu.mber in their publicatIon ,0/ the n,ew taxon. Dr. J. R. B. ALFRED ,Director Zoological Surv,ey of India RE'CORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA Vol. 102 (Part 1-2) 2004 P,ages 1-186 'CONTENTS Pages Alffed, J. R. B., Murmu, A., Mazumder, P. C. and Cbaudhuri, S. - A note on the primates of 'Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh 1-5 Radhakrishnan" C. and Thirumalai, G. ,- A report on the oc'currence of the Sea Skater, Halobates galatea Herring (Ins,ecta : Hemiptera ; Gerridae) in a mangrove habitat at Dhannadam, 7 .. 10 Kannur district, Kerala, India Nandi, B. 'C,. and ShuVfa Kanti Sinha ~ On ,a small collection of Muscid flies (Diptera : Muscidae) .of Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve" India 11-26 Mubamed lafer Palot and Radhakrishnan,C. - Status and distribution of Turtle fauna (Testudines : Reptilia) in the Malabar part of Kerala, India 27-39 Chandra Kanta Mandai ~ Checklist of the Hirudinea (Lee1ches) of India 41 .. 46 Nandi, N,. C., Bhuinya, S. and Das, S. R. - - N.otes on mid-winter waterbird population 'Of some selected wetlands of Bankura and Puruliya districts, West Beng.al 47 ... 51 Nandi, N. C., Mukhop.adhyay, P., Ghosh, S. K. and D,as, S K. ~ Notes on ,aquatic entomofauna of N,arathaly Lake of Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal 53 .. 56 'Thirumalai, G.- A checklist of aquatic and senu-aquatic Hemiptera (Insecta) of Karnataka 57-72 Kailash Chandra -- Check.. lis,t of Mecoptera from India 73 .. 76 Arun Gupta and Chaterjee,M,. ~ Some new records of mites infesting stored grains in Kolkata and Its neighbourhood 77-82 Hazra, .A. K., Mandal, G. P., Suman, K. K., M'ondal, S. K. and Sanyal, A. K. - Faunal diversity of Nayachar, a newly emerged island : Orthoptera (Acridoidea) 83-95 Majumder, S. C. -- Studies on spider fauna of Coastal region .of India: Des1cription of two new species of Pardosa Koch (Arane,ae : Lycosidae) from the c.oastal region of Sundarbans, W,est Bengal (Part-I) 97-103 Majumder, S. C. and Mridha, ,R. S,. - StudIes on spider fauna of coastal region of India: Observations on population fluctuation of spiders and their col,e in biological control of insect pests on paddy ,fields of Sundarban coastal region, West Ben,gal (Part-2) 10.S 113 Korad, V,. S. andYardi. K. D. - Ecological study and faunastic survey of bats from Pune Corporation Limits, Maharashtra state, India 115-136 Modak, A., Saha, G. K., Tandon, N. and Gupta, S. K. - Faunal diversity and habitat preference of house dust mites in West Bengal in relation to Nasobronchial A lergic Disorders 137-146 Sanyal, ,Asok K and Bhattacharyya, Asit K. - Oribatidmite (Acarina: Cryptostigm,ata) fauna from the Thar desert of Rajasd;lao, India 147 ... 154 Chandrasekhar, S. V A. - A :s~udy on the Cladoceran fauna of Hyderabad ,and its envi~ons, ARdbraPradesh 15S-167 Shelley Ghosh and Rajendra Singh- Aphi,ds on medicinal plants in north east India (Insecta : Homoptera : Aphididae ) 169-186 Rec. zool. Surv. India: 102 (Part 1-2) : 1-5, 2004 A NOTE ON THE PRIMATES OF TAWANG DISTRICT, ARUNACHAL PRADESH J R B ALFRED, A. MURMu, P. C. MAZUMDER AND S. CHAUDHURI Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053 INTRODUCTION Arunachal Pradesh, the land of dawn-lit mountains with all its forest and wildlife resources sequesters at the farthest point of the north-east region of the country. Tawang, one of the ten districts, appearing just like a speak of the vast stretch of its state's terrain is situated at 90°45' to 92°15' N latitude and 27°22' to 27°45' E longitude with an area of 2085 sq. km. Tawang, the westernmost district of the state; two-third of the area is of high mountaneous region bounded by China (Tibet) in the north, Bhutan in the south-west and West Kameng district (AP) on the east accommodates only 28,287 human population (2001 census). The climate of the ~istrict is of temperate nature, moderate in summer and remain much below the freezing point during the winter. Rainfall in the district reasonably high during monsoon (May to September). Steep high mountaneous ranges run elsewhere in the plummer down to the green valleys where they together with other tributaries finally meet the Brahmaputra river. Forest is the main economy in the state, but Tawang depends mainly on agriculture and tourists. The district has only one social forestry division with two forest ranges and five non-account:beats. There is no Reserve Forest and no Protected Forest in the district. Recently two Anchal Reserve Forests have been proposed comprising of 405 hec. of land. No wonder the state has been a dream of naturalists. Many a number of expeditions, surveys have been undertaken by the naturalists of national and intematiQnallevels. But possibly, no attempt on primates survey have been made in the district of Tawang. Therefore, keeping the view in mind, a preliminary survey to the montane forests and river valleys in the south and north-west parts of the district has been carried out during the month of May, 2002. The monkey groups that were encountered during the survey was Assamese macaque, Macaca assamensis. The other primate species which occur at Tawang is capped langur, Trachypithecus pileatus, which inhabits in the inaccessible terrain and rarely come in the villages or roadside forests at lower elevation. They are shy but true arboreal in the district. The "Pere Davis" macaque, Macaca thibetana, endemic to China to E. Tibet, Szechwan to Kwangtung ( Pocock, 1939 ) and the Stump tailed macaque, Macaca a rcto ide s , reported to occur at Tawang, could not be located m the present survey even inquires from local people and Forest Department not confirmed its presence in the study area. 2 RECORDS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA However, the occurence of Pere Davis macaque can not be ruled out at this stage till a detail investigation is made. The characteristic physical appearance of the Assamese macaque at Tawang was close to description of other authors (Pocock, 1939; Roonwal and Mohnot, 1977). The monkeys were bigger in size and dark coat colour at Tawang as compared to individuals seen at lower elevation might have confused the observers reporting the possible occurence of a new species. A perusal of literature revealed that Macaca assamensis inhabits the foothills of the Himalayas and adjoining mountain ranges in south Asia (Hill and Bernstein, 1969; Fooden, 1989). The Assamese macaque belonigs to sinica group of macaque together with Macaco sinica, Macaca radiata and Macaco thihetana (Fooden, 1982 ). The present survey revealed that Assamese macaque population is fairly common in the south and north-western parts of Tawang.
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