Publications

Research articles published by the Kalinga Foundation team (in collaboration with other such organisations/scientists) 
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Janani, S. & Ganesh, S.R. (2024). Urban college campuses as safer refuge for wildlife perceived as dangerous: A case study on snakes in Madras Christian College, Chennai, India. Journal of Fauna Biodiversity, 1(2): 86-95.

De Souza, H. F., Pavukandy, U., & Ganesh, S.R. (2024). On further specimens of Dussumier’s Mud Snake Dieurostus dussumierii (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) with notes on its taxonomy, type material, and natural history (Reptilia: Serpentes: Homalopsidae). Zootaxa, 5496(2): 261-272.

Cyriac, V., Ganesh, S. R., Madani, Z., Ghosh, A., Kulkarni, V., & Shanker, K. (2024). Phylogenetic Systematics of the Shieldtail Snake Genus Teretrurus Beddome, 1886 (Squamata, Uropeltidae) Reveals Extensive Cryptic Diversity and Novel Geographic Spread in the Western Ghats of India. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 3(2): 25pp.

Ganesh, S., Bhuvaneshwari, S., & Ganesh, S. R. (2024). Green cover may predict persistence of garden lizards in city parks of Chennai Metropolis, India: insights from a preliminary study. Zoo's Print, 39(7), 5-9.

Ganesh, S.R. (2024). Tail-wagging: a novel behaviour seen in the Indian day gecko Cnemaspis yelagiriensis. Sauria, 46(2), 47-51.

Aishwarya, G. & Ganesh, S.R. (2024). Inventory of nucleotides of Indian amphibians in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Cheetal, 61(2).

Swaathi, NA., Jaithun Bi, J. & Ganesh, S.R. (2024). Inventory of nucleotides of Indian lizards in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Cheetal, 61(2).

Parmar, D. S., Thakur, M. N., Agarwal, I., Ganesh, S. R, & Vogel, G. (2024). Report of stray sightings of Dendrelaphis proarchos (Wall, 1909)(Serpentes: Colubridae) in Surat, Gujarat, western India. Zootaxa, 5433(2), 231-248.

Ganesh, S. R. & Rameshwaran, M. (2024). On a specimen of Cnemaspis galaxia (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Rajapalayam hills, Western Ghats, India. Sauria, 46(1), 62-64.

Bors, M. S., Gowri Shankar, P., & Gruszczyńska, J. (2024). Current State of Mugger Populations. Animals, 14(5), 691

Ralph, R., Sharma, D., Jain, R., Balachandran, A., Chiang, Y. W., & Ganesh, S. R. (2024). Protobothrops jerdonii (Jerdon’s pit viper) and Protobothrops himalayanus (Himalayan lance-headed pit viper) bites: Clinical report on envenomings from North-East India, managed through remote consultation by a national-level Poison control center. Toxicon, 242, 107704.

Venu, G., Balakrishna, G. N., Chandrasekhara, V., Mallikarjuna, N. A., Seetharama, H. G., Raju, N. G., ... & Ganesh, S. R. (2024). On further specimens of the Spotted Eastern Ghats Skink Sepsophis punctatus Beddome, 1870 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Ananthagiri hills, Northern Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 5424(3), 396-400.

Ganesh, S. R., Swaathi, N. A., & Ravindra, U. (2024). Erode Ground Gecko Cyrtodactylus speciosus (Beddome, 1870) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from peri-urban common-lands of Coimbatore, India, with comments on habitat associations. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 16(2), 24769-24774.

Ganesh, S. R. (2023). Ten years of Kalinga Foundation–serving India’s wildlife and those who protect them. ZOO'S PRINT, 38(11), 40-43.

Ganesh, S. R., Adhikari, O. D., & Srikanthan, A. N. (2023). Taxonomy and Distribution of two Shieldtail Snakes Uropeltis pulneyensis (Beddome, 1863) and Uropeltis woodmasoni (theobald, 1876)(Squamata: Uropeltidae) with Redescriptions of type Specimens. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (JBNHS), 120.

Mondal, S., Ganesh, S. R., & Raghunathan, C. (2023). Some rare species of sea snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae: Hydrophis,Microcephalophis) from the Indian Coasts and nearby waters, lodged in major systematic Indian zoological collections. Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 72 (2), 209-222.

Sathyanarayana, M.C.S. & S.R. Ganesh (2023). First observation on multi-male nerophilic amplexus and mass mortality of amplectant adult females in the Common Asian Toads. Frogleg, 148. In: Zoo’s Print 38(10): 9–11.

Blessy, J. & S.R. Ganesh (2023). Observation on self-locking concertina climbing in the Common Indian Krait (Bungarus caeruleus [Schneider, 1801]). Sauria 45(3): 52–54.

Bors, M., N. Mohanty & G.S. Pogiri (2022). Comparison of diurnal and nocturnal escape behaviour of the lizard Monilesaurus rouxii (Reptilia: Agamidae). Herpetology Notes 15: 839–844.

Shankar, P.G., P. Swamy, R.C. Williams, S.R. Ganesh, M. Moss, J. Höglund, I. Das, G. Sahoo, S.P. Vijayakumar, K. Shanker, W. Wuster, & S.K. Dutta (2021). King or royal family? Testing for species boundaries in the King Cobra, Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836), using morphology and multilocus DNA analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 165: 107300.

Bors, M., N.P. Mohanty & P.G. Shankar (2020). Anti-predatory sleep strategies are conserved in the agamid lizard Monilesaurus rouxii. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74: 1–8.