Papers and Articles connected to ARRS

Scientific publications and reports by and about ARRS work, staff and associates

  • Gopalakrishna Bhatta, K.P. Dinesh, P. Prashanth & Nirmal, U. Kulkarni (2007). A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Goa, India. Zootaxa (1409):51-59.
  • P. Gowri Shankar and Nikhil Whitaker (2009). Ecdysis in the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). Russian Journal of Herpetology Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009, pp. 1-5.
  • P. Gowri Shankar and S. R. Ganesh (2009). Sighting record and range extension of Calliophis bibroni. The Herpetological Bulletin Number 108 - Autumn 2009
  • S.R. Ganesh and P. Gowri Shankar (2009). Range extension of Kaestlea beddomeii (Boulenger, 1887) (in part) (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae). Herpetological Bulletin - Number 107.
  • Dhiraj Bhaisare, Vipul Ramanuj, P. Gowri Shankar, M. Vittala, Matt Goode, Rom Whitaker (2010). Observations on a Wild King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) with Emphasis on Foraging and Diet. Reptiles & Amphibians, Conservation and Natural History Journal. Vol 17. No. 2, 95 – 102.
  • Whitaker, R., Matt G. and P. Shankar (2010). Telemetry in snake research, ENVIS Bulletin. Vol. 13, No. 1, 152-160.
  • Rachakonda Sreekar, Katya Saini, Shyam N. Rao and Chetana B. Purushothm (2010). Predicting lizard gender: sexual dimorphism in calotes rouxii (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Agumbe, Karnataka, India. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6(1):75−80.
  • Chetana P. and T. Benjamin. (2011). Checklist of Amphibians: Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Frog Leg, No. 16, pp. 2 - 14.
  • Ganesh, S.R., R. Sreekar, S.P. Pal, G. Ramchandra, C. Srinivasulu & B. Srinivasulu (2011). Discovery and first description of male Cnemaspis heteropholis Bauer, 2002 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Agumbe, central Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(8): 2023–2027.
  • Sreekar, R. (2011). Figs in the diet of Greater Golden-backed Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes lucidus. Indian BIRDS 7 (5): 147.
  • Vivek, R., Agarwal, P. R., and Sreekar, R. (2011). Dusky Striped Squirrel Funambulus sublineatus as a part of mixed-species bird flocks. Indian BIRDS 7 (2): 51.
  • Benjamin Tapley and Chetana Babburjung Purushotham (2011). Fighting behaviour in the Bicoloured frog Clinotarsus (Rana) curtipes Jerdon, 1854. Herpetology Notes, volume 4: 353-355.
  • Gowri Shankar. P, Mathew John Goode and Romulus Whitaker (2011). The King goes up the Canopy. Forest Canopies of South Asia- a glimpse, Edited by: Soubadra Devy,T. Ganesh, Amirta Tripathy, pp. 46 - 48, 2011.
  • Bhatta, G. and P. Prashanth (2012). Additional Records on the Distribution, Morphology and Morphometry of Gegeneophis nadkarnii (Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae). Biosystematica.
  • S. R. Ganesh, P. Gowri Shankar & R. Sreekar (2012). First record of Wayanad shieldtail Melanophidium wynaudense (Beddome, 1863) from the Central Western Ghats, India. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 53 - 56, 2012.
  • S.R. Ganesh, S.R. Chandramouli and P. Gowri Shankar (2012). Record lengths of two endemic caenophidian snakes from the Western Ghats Mountains, India. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 44 - 46.
  • Barve S. et al. (2013). A preliminary study on translocation of “rescued” King Cobras (Ophiophagus hannah). Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 2, 19 - 25.
  • Bhatta, G., K.P. Dinesh, P. Prashanth & Nirmal, U. Kulkarni (2013). A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Goa, India. Zootaxa
  • Bhatta, G., K.P. Dinesh, P. Prashanth & Nirmal, U. Kulkarni. (2013) A new species of the Indian caecilian genus Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the surroundings of Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats. Current science, vol. 93, no. 10
  • Chetan Rao, Gautam Talukdar, B. C. Choudhury, P. Gowri Shankar, Romulus Whitaker and Matt Goode (2013). Habitat use of King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in a heterogeneous landscape matrix in the tropical forests of the Western Ghats, India. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 69 - 79.
  • Rachakonda Sreekar, Katya Saini, Shyam N. Rao, And Chetana B. Purushotham (2013). Predicting lizard gender: sexual dimorphism in calotes rouxii (reptilia: agamidae) from Agumbe, Karnataka, India. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6(1):75 - 80.
  • S. R. Ganesh, S. R. Chadramouli, R. Sreekar, and P. Gowri Shankar (2013). Reptiles of the central western ghats, india - a reappraisal and revised checklist, with emphasis on the Agumbe plateau. Russian Journal of Herpetology Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 181 - 189.
  • Sreekar R, Purushotham CB, Saini K, Rao SN, Pelletier S, et al. (2013) Photographic Capture-Recapture Sampling for Assessing Populations of the Indian Gliding Lizard Draco dussumieri. PLoS ONE 8(2): e55935
  • P. Gowri Shankar, Aditya Singh, S. R. Ganesh, and Romulus Whitaker (2013) Factors influencing human hostility to King Cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) in the Western Ghats of India. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 91 - 100.
  • P. Gowri Shankar, S.R. Ganesh, Romulus Whitaker and P. Prashanth (2013) King Cobra Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836) encounters in human-modified rainforests of the Western Ghats, India. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 62 - 68.
  • P. Gowri Shankar and Romulus Whitaker (2013) Cannibalism in wild and captive King Cobras (Ophiophagus hannah) Cantor, 1836. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 87 - 90
  • Nikhil Whitaker, P. Gowri Shankar and Romulus Whitaker (2013) Nesting ecology of the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in India. Hamadryad Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 101 - 107.
  • Balaji, D., Rachakonda Sreekara and Siddharth Rao (2014). Drivers of reptile and amphibian assemblages outside the protected areas of Western Ghats, India. Journal for Nature Conservation 22, pp. 337 - 341.
  • Bhaisare D. and E. Pelling. (2015). Trimeresurus malabaricus (Malabar Pit Viper): Diving behaviour and underwater apnoea duration. The Herpetological Bulletin. 134, 33 – 34.
  • YatinKalki, Shubham Adhi and Chaitanya Shukla (2019). Bungarus Caeruleus (Common Indian Krait) – Absence of mid-dorsal hexagonal scales in an aberrant common Indian krait – presence of mid-dorsal hexagonal scales from midbody to tail in an aberrant Common Indian Krait. Herpetological Review 50(2).
  • Seshadri K S, Ajay Giri, Jaykumar S and Romulus Whitaker and Niall Mccann (2019). Ophiophagus Hannah (King Cobra) and Python Molurus (Indian Rock Python). Diet and Predation. Herpetological Review 50 (4), pp. 806-807.
  • Yatin Kalki & Chi-Ting Hsu (2020). Monilesaurus rouxii (Roux's Forest Lizard). Diet (NHN)- Roux's Forest Lizard feeding on a Boxer Mantis - Herpetological Review (51) 1, pp. 128.
  • Yatin Kalki & Ajay Giri (2020). Dendrelaphis grandoculis (Large-eyed Bronzeback). Diet (NHN) - Large-eyed Bronzeback feeding on a Malabar Gliding Frog -Herpetological Review (51) 1, pp. 141.
  • Yatin Kalki, Piyush Dholariya, Robin Huizinga, & Ajay Giri (2020). Dendrelaphis grandoculis (Large-eyed Bronzeback). Reproduction (NHN)- First report on clutch size for Large-eyed Bronzeback, obtained from a DOR female -Herpetological Review (51) 1, pp. 142.
  • Yatin Kalki (2020). Fowlea piscator (Checkered Keelback). Oophagy (NHN)- Checkered keelback feeding on the eggs of a Malabar Gliding Frog - Herpetological Review (51) 1, pp. 143.
  • Yatin Kalki (2020). Naja naja (Spectacled Cobra). Diet (NHN) - Spectacled cobra feeding on Indian Palm Squirrel pups and a Black Rat - Herpetological Review (51) 1, pp. 149.
  • Nagraj Belluru, Gurumurty, Meghana Nagaraja and Ajay Giri (2021). King cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah) feeding on Russell’s viper. Diet. (NHN)Herpetological Review (52) 2, pp. 430.
  • Yatin Kalki (2020). Understanding the food habits of the green vine snake (Ahaetulla nasuta) in India: a crowdsourced approach - Herpetology Notes. volume 13: 835-843 (2020) (published online on 16 October 2020).
  • Yatin Kalki & Huizinga (2020). Minervarya sp. Predation, Natural History Notes, pp 566.
  • Yatin Kalki and Merlin Weiss (2020). Understanding the food habits of the green vine snake (Ahaetulla nasuta): a crowdsourced approach - Herpetology Notes, Volume 13: 835-843.
  • Yatin Kalki, Robin Huizinga, and Merlin Weiss (2020). Mosquitoes (Uranotaenia sp.) Biting an Indian Golden-backed Frog (Indosylvirana indica). REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS 27(3): 454-455
  • GS Bhat, M Nayak, MS Bhat and Ajay V Giri (2023). Drop size and rain rate characteristics of Indian monsoon rainwater. Journal of Earth System Science, Springer. 132, Article number: 24 (2023).
  • Joel Correa, Ajay V Giri, Vijay Kumar and Vivek Hasyagar. 2023. First evidential record of predation by an Ornate Flying Snake, Chrysopelea ornata (Shaw 1802), on an insectivorous bat in the central Western Ghats, Karnataka, India. Reptiles & Amphibians. Vol. 30 No. 1.

Photographic contributions to books and book publication regarding ARRS work

  • Harvey B. Lillywhite. 2014. How Snakes Work: Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes, Oxford University Press, pp 214
  • King cobras are awesome. 2015. Cap Stone Publication, UK.
  • Ajay of Aumbe and the signal snake - Zai Whitaker
  • The Cobra’s Gaze: Exploring India’s Wild Heritage - Stephen Alter
  • Scaling Up - Zai Whitaker