Scolopendromorpha: India

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This is an extract from ANIMAL RESOURCES OF INDIA: Protozoa to Mammalia State of the Art. Zoological Survey of India, 1991. By Professor Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri Director, Zoological Survey of India and his team of devoted scientists. The said book is an enlarged, updated version of The State of Art Report: Zoology Edited by Dr. T. N. Ananthakrishnan, Director, Zoological Survey of India in 1980.

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Introduction

21 tergal segments corresponding with equal number of leg-bearing segments of Scolopendromorpha. To justify this peculiar situation, some authors place this 'Relic Centipede' under a different Order Craterostigmomorpha, while others place it under Lithobiomorpha on the basis of number of pairs of legs, sterna and spiracles. Table I may be seen for classification upto genera.

Current Studies

Recently, Jangi and Dass (1984) have described and listed 26 species from Deccan Plateau, (southern Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, T~ilNadu and Kerala) in India. Khanna and Tripathi (1985) recorded 7 species from U.P. Terai; Khanna and Tripathi (1985, 1986) listed eleven species, including the two new ones from Himachal Pradesh; one new species from Haryana (Khanna and Tripathi, 1987) and 20 species from Western Himalaya, Uttar Pradesh. Besides this, Khanna (under pUblication) has contributed to the studies of Scolopendrid fauna of Conservation areas like Rajaji National Park, Corbett National Park and Dudhwa National Park. Study of the centipedes collected from NE Himalaya, Rajasthan and Gujarat, and also from the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, are in progress.

Expertise India

In ZSI

Vinod Khanna, Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Station, 218, Kaulagarh Roa~ Debra Dun -248 195 (U.P.).

Md. S. Ahamed, Zoological Survey of India, M Block, New Alipore, Calcutta -700053.

B. E. Yadav , Western Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Pune (Maharashtra).

Elsewhere

B. S. Jangi, 'Arvind', B 1/348, Janakpuri, New Delhi -110058.

G. S. Shukla, Department of Zoology, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur (U.P.).

Abroad

R. E. Chabill Jr., 200 Brewster Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20901 (USA). J. M. Demange, Labaratoire De Zoologie (Arthropodes), Museum National Histoire Naturelle, 61, Rue De Buffon, F 75231 Paris. (France).

L..E. Koch, Dept. Arachnology and Myriapodology, Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth 6000, (West Australia).

J. G. E. Lewis, Tauton School, Taunton, Somerset TA2 6AD.

Z. Matic, Cat. De Biologie Animale, Lab. Zoologie, Faculty de BioI. Geo. Univ. "Babes¬Boyai", RO -3400 CLUJ-Napoca, Str., Clincilor 5-7, (Romania).

Marcus Wurmli, Dimendorferstrasse 19, D -8132 Tutzing, R.F. Allemagine.

J. G. Blower, Department of Environmental Biology, University, Manchester M13 9PL England. (U.K.). R. F. Lawrence, Albany Museum, Grahmstown. (South Africa).

Selected Rererences

Attems, C. 1930. Scolopendromorpha, Das Tierriech, 54 (2) : 1-308. Chamberlin, R. V. 1944. On some myriapods collected from Indo-Australian Archipelago. Notulae naturae, Philad., 147 : 1-14. Cloudsley-Thomson, J. L. 1958. Spiders, Scorpions, Centipedes and Mites. Pergamon press, London. Jangi, B. S. 1966. On the Indian Animal Types. 9. Scolopend,a the Indian Centipede. The Indian Zool. Mem. : xiv + 109 pp. Jangi, B. S. &Dass, C. M. S. 1984. Scolopendridae of the Deccan. J. Sci. &Indus. Res., 43 : 27-54. Koch, L. E. 1983. Revision of the Australian species of the genus Cormocephalus Newport (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae). Aust. J. Zool., 31 : 799-833. Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda. Trans. Linn. Soc., London, 19 : 349-439.

Newport, G. 1856. Catalogue of Myriapoda in the collection of British Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Taylor and Francis, London.