Discoveries

Species new to science.

Formal descriptions the lab has contributed to — new species, and a new genus, spanning plants, centipedes, lizards and caecilians of peninsular India and the Western Ghats.

Plants

03 species

Friesodielsia sahyadrica Page & Surveswaran, 2014

Brachystelma mahajanii Kambale et al., 2014

Brachystelma vartakii Kambale et al., 2014

Centipedes

02 species

Digitipes periyarensis Joshi & Edgecombe, 2013

Digitipes jangii Joshi & Edgecombe, 2013

Lizards

08 species

Hemidactylus graniticolus Agarwal, Giri & Bauer, 2011

Sphenomorphus apalpebratus Datta-Roy et al., 2013

Sarada darwini Deepak et al., 2015 Described together with the new genus Sarada

Sarada superba Deepak et al., 2015

Sitana visiri Deepak et al., 2015

Sitana laticeps Deepak et al., 2015

Sitana spinaecephalus Deepak et al., 2015

Hemidactylus yajurvedi Murthy et al., 2015

Caecilians

01 species

Gegeneophis orientalis Agarwal et al., 2013

From specimen to species — it starts with the phylogeny.

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