IUCN Sciaenidae Red List Workshop
Rajeev Raghavan attended the IUCN Red List assessment workshop for the Sciaenid fishes of the Indian Ocean organized by the IUCN SSC Sciaenid Red List Authority and the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu at Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. read more →
Science Comm’18 India
PhD student Arya Sidharthan attended the Indo-Swiss Conference and Workshop on Science Communication organized by the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. read more →
International Conference on IUCN Red List in Malaysia
Rajeev Raghavan delivered a talk on ‘Conservation Status of Asian Freshwater Fishes’ at the IUCN Red List Symposium organized by the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu at Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. read more →
PhD student paper in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Preliminary results of Anoop’s PhD on the biogeography of hillstream loaches of Western Ghats has been published in the December 2018 issue of ‘Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution’ . read more →
Discovery of a gondwanan relic in peninsular India
A team of international researchers including Dr. Rajeev Raghavan, CP Arjun (NIAS, Bangalore) and Sammy De Grave (Oxford University, UK) have published an exciting new discovery of a new genus and species of shrimp of the family Euryrhynchidae from subterranean wells in Kerala. This is the first record of the family Euryrhynchidae from outside of South.. read more →
New paper in Lakes and Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use
Results of a study led by Rajeev Raghavan on the demographics of Hypselobarbus kurali, an endemic large growing cyprinid fish of the Western Ghats was published in ‘Lakes and Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use’ read more →
MongaBay covers new species description
Popular environmental science website, MongaBay has covered the recent work of PhD student Anoop VK who described a new species of badid fish, Dario neela from the Western Ghats. read more →
Molecular Phylogenetics Workshop at IISc
PhD student Arya Sidharthan participated in the Molecular Phylogenetics Workshop organized by the Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from 1st to 5th August. read more →
Understanding needlefishes of the Laccadive archipelago
Rajeev Raghavan co-authored a paper in the Journal of Applied Ichthyology, on the length-weight relationship of three species of needlefishes of the family belonidae from the Laccadive archiepelago. read more →
Up to thirty undescribed loaches could be present in the northern Western Ghats
Rajeev Raghavan and Unmesh Katwate were involved in a study that indicates the high number of potentially undescribed hillstream loach species lurking in the rivers of the northern part of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot. The results of the study published in METAGENE suggest that there could be between 23 and 31 species of loaches belonging.. read more →
