Volume 25, Issue 76, July - December, 2024

Diversity and distribution of nonmarine malacofauna from tiger reserves of Telangana, India

Padmavathi Pamulapati¹, Sk Rehanuma Sulthana^2♦, Deepa Jaiswal²

¹Department of Zoology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar – 522 510, Andhra Pradesh, India
²Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Plot No. 366/1, Beside O/o DFO Flying Squad, Near Pillar No 162, Attapur, Hyderguda, Hyderabad – 500 048, Telangana, India

^♦Corresponding Author
Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Plot No. 366/1, Beside O/o DFO Flying Squad, Near Pillar No 162, Attapur, Hyderguda, Hyderabad – 500 048, Telangana, India

ABSTRACT

Mollusca is remarkably one of the most diverse animal groups. Despite this fact, knowledge of the diversity and distribution of these species is still lagging in Telangana state, India. Hence, the present study aimed to study the malacofaunal diversity at different stations of two tiger reserves of Telangana to fill the gaps in the existing knowledge. Altogether, 37 sampling stations were surveyed for three years, from 2020 to 2022 in the present investigation. A total of 66 species of non-marine molluscs were recorded, including 33 land species and 33 freshwater species.

Keywords: Malacofauna, freshwater molluscs, terrestrial molluscs, Tiger Reserves, Telangana

Species, 2024, 25(76), e32s1689

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i76.e32s1689

Published: 03 July 2024