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Journal of Threatened Taxa ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Journal of Threatened Taxa 26 January 2019 (Online & Print) Vol. 11 | No. 1 | 13047–13194 PLATINUM 10.11609/jott.2019.11.1.13047-13194 OPEN www.threatenedtaxa.org ACCESS J Building TTevidence for conservation globally ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Publisher Host Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society Zoo Outreach Organization www.wild.zooreach.org www.zooreach.org No. 12, Thiruvannamalai Nagar, Saravanampatti - Kalapatti Road, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Ph: +91 9385339863 | www.threatenedtaxa.org Email: [email protected] EDITORS Colin Groves, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Founder & Chief Editor Crawford Prentice, Nature Management Services, Jalan, Malaysia Dr. Sanjay Molur, Coimbatore, India C.T. Achuthankutty, Scientist-G etd.),(R CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa Dan Challender, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Managing Editor D.B. Bastawade, Maharashtra, India Mr. B. Ravichandran, Coimbatore, India D.J. Bhat, Retd. Professor, Goa University, Goa, India Dale R. Calder, Royal Ontaro Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Associate Editors Daniel Brito, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil Dr. B.A. Daniel, Coimbatore, India David Mallon, Manchester Metropolitan University, Derbyshire, UK Dr. Ulrike Streicher, Wildlife Veterinarian, Danang, Vietnam David Olson, Zoological Society of London, UK Ms. Priyanka Iyer, Coimbatore, India Davor Zanella, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Deepak Apte, Bombay Natural Hisotry Society, Mumbai, India Editorial Advisors Diana Doan-Crider, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA Ms. Sally Walker, Coimbatore, India Dietmar Zinner, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany Dr. Robert C. Lacy, Minnesota, USA Dunston P.Ambrose, St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai, India Dr. Russel Mittermeier, Virginia, USA E. Vivekanandan, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, India Prof. Dr. Mewa Singh, Mysuru, India Eduard Vives, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Terrassa, Spain Mr. Stephen D. Nash, Stony Brook, USA Eric Smith, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Dr. Fred Pluthero, Toronto, Canada Erin Wessling, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Dr. Martin Fisher, Cambridge, UK Errol Vela, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France Dr. Ulf Gärdenfors, Uppsala, Sweden Farkhanda Manzoor Dugal, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan Dr. John Fellowes, Hong Kong F.B. Vincent Florens, University of Mauritius, Mauritius Dr. Philip S. Miller, Minnesota, USA Ferdinando Boero, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy Prof. Dr. Mirco Solé, Brazil Francesco Dal Grande, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt Frederic H. Martini, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hanolulu, Hawaii. Editorial Board George Mathew, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, India Subject Editors 2016–2018 Gernot Vogel, Heidelberg, Germany Aaron Bauer, Villanova University, Villanova, USA Giovanni Amori, CNR - Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Rome, Italy Amazonas Chagas Júnior, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brasil Gombobaatar Sundev, Professor of Ornithology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Anders G.J. Rhodin, Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, USA G.P. Mandal, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India A. Biju Kumar, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India G.P. Sinha, Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad, India A.J. Solomon Raju, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India Hari Balasubramanian, EcoAdvisors, Nova Scotia, Canada A.J.T. Johnsingh, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysuru, India Hayrünisa Baş Sermenli, Muğla University, Kötekli, Turkey Albert G. Orr, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia H.C. Nagaveni, Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru, India Alessandre Pereira Colavite, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil H.C. Paulo Corgosinho, Bairro Universitário, Frutal, Brazil Alexi Popov, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria H.N. Kumara, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Anaikatty, India Alexander Ereskovsky, IMBE, Marseille, France H. Raghuram, The American College, Madurai, India Andreas Köhler, Universidade de Santa Cruz do, Brazil Hector Barrios-Garrido, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Angela R. Glatston, Rotterdam Zoo, The Netherlands Heidi S. Riddle, Riddle’s Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary, Arkansas, USA Anjana Silva, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka Hem Sagar Baral, Charles Sturt University, NSW Australia Ankita Gupta, ICAR-NBAIR, Bengaluru, India Hemant V. Ghate, Modern College, Pune, India Annemarie Ohler, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France Heok Hee Ng, National University of Singapore, Science Drive, Singapore Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, University of Pretoria, Queenswood, South Africa Himender Bharti, Punjabi University, Patiala, India Antonio D. Brescovit, Instituto Butantan, Brasil Hui Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Ian J. Kitching, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, UK Anwaruddin Chowdhury, The Rhino Foundation for nature in North East India, Guwahati, India Ian Redmond, UNEP Convention on Migratory Species, Lansdown, UK Aparna Watve, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Osmanabad, India Indraneil Das, Sarawak, Malaysia Arthur Y.C. Chung, Sabah Forestry Department, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia Ivana Karanovic, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea Asheesh Shivam, Nehru Gram Bharti University, Allahabad, India J. Jerald Wilson, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Ashwin Naidu, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA J.W. Duckworth, IUCN SSC, Bath, UK B.C. Choudhury (Retd.), Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India. Jack Tordoff, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, Arlington, USA B. Ravi Prasad Rao, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantpur, India Jan Zima, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Brno, Czech Republic B. Shivaraju, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India James M. Carpenter, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA B.S. Kholia, Botanical Survey of India, Gangtok, Sikkim, India James Young, Hong Kong Lepidopterists’ Society, Hong Kong Bolívar R. Garcete-Barrett, FACEN, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay Jean-Pierre Boudot, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Jeff McNeely, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences, USA Jesse Leland, Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia C. Raghunathan, Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jill Pruetz, Iowa State University, Ames, USA C. Srinivasulu, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Jim Sanderson, Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation, Hartford, USA Carl Ferraris, Smithsonian Institution, Portland, USA Jodi L. Sedlock, Lawrence University, Appleton, USA Carol Inskipp, Bishop Auckland Co., Durham, UK John C. Morse, Clemson University, Long Hall, Clemson, USA Cecília Kierulff, Victorville , California John Huber, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ontario, Canada. Caption: Diverse! Colourful! Almost Magical! Beetles are all around us from Cecilia Volkmer Ribeiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil. John Noyes, Natural History Museum, London, UK ancient cultures, art and entertainment to being considered pests, food, Chris Bowden, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, UK John Veron, Coral Reef Foundation, Townsville, Australia medicine, biodiversity indicators and even inspiration for technologies. Christoph Kueffer, Institute of Integrative Biology, Zürich, Switzerland Jorg Freyhof, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecoloy and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany This pencil and pen sketch by Priyanka Iyer, Zoo Outreach Organization is to Christoph Schwitzer, University of the West of England, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3HA József Lanszki, University of West Hungary, Sopron, Hungary celebrate Beetles. Christopher L. Jenkins, The Orianne Society, Athens, Georgia K. Haridasan, FRLHT, Bengaluru, India Cleofas Cervancia, Univ. of Philippines Los Baños College Laguna, Philippines K. Karthigeyan, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah, India continued on the back inside cover Caption: Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala at Achankulam Lake, Coimbatore by B. Ravichandran, WILD / Zooreach. Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 January 2019 | 11(1): 13047–13057 Article Distribution of the threatened Assamese Macaque Macaca assamensis (Mammalia: Primates: Cercopithecidae) population in Nepal ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Laxman Khanal 1 , Mukesh Kumar Chalise 2 & Xuelong Jiang 3 PLATINUM 1,2 Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, OPEN ACCESS Nepal. 1,3 Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiaochang E Rd, Wuhua, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China. 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected] Abstract: Sustainable conservation and management of a species require detailed knowledge of its population status and distribution pattern. The population of the Assamese Macaque Macaca assamensis in Nepal, probably a new subspecies endemic to the country, is yet to be studied for documenting its spatial distribution and size. We did extensive surveys across three major river systems of Nepal (Koshi, Gandaki, and Karnali river systems) by modified line transect method covering almost
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