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"Rare Animals of India" is a special ebook that provides the organic and ecological bills of the least identified animal species of India in a single entire quantity. The publication offers entire ecological bills supported with information tables on infrequent and particular animal species of India and discusses the foundation for his or her rarity and their conservation. It contains information regarding the Indian Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) the endangered woodland Owlet (Heteroglaux blewitti), the Bengal Marsh Mongoose, Snow Leopards and lots of extra. Readers are guided via a number of chapters every one detailing a particular form of animal, a few of them being at the record of endangered species. With over one hundred fifty colour illustrations, this exciting reference may be of big curiosity to zoologists, ecologists, naturalists and conservation biologists in addition to basic readers the world over attracted to learning such infrequent animals present in the size and breadth of the Indian area.
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Found in natural habitats as well as plantations like tea gardens. Endangered and Enigmatic Reptiles of Western Ghats Rare Animals of India 49 Salea horsfieldii GRAY, 1845 S. anamallayana (BEDDOME, 1878) FAMILY: Scincidae GENUS: Eutropis FITZINGER, 1843 Skinks are diurnal, terrestrial to semi-fossorial, oviparous insectivores. Forestfloor-dwelling species, they are secretive and rarely reveal their presence. The following are endemic to this region. Removal of leaf-litter for fire-lines is adversely affecting these skinks.
The following species and subspecies are endemic to this region. Uropeltis ceylanica CUVIER, 1829 U. bicatenata (GÜNTHER, 1864) U. nitida (BEDDOME, 1878) U. ocellata (BEDDOME, 1863) U. dindigalensis (BEDDOME, 1877) U. beddomii (GÜNTHER, 1862) U. macrorhyncha (BEDDOME, 1877) U. macrolepis macrolepis (PETERS, 1862) U. m. mahableshwarensis CHARI, 1955 U. woodmasoni (THEOBALD, 1876) U. arcticeps arcticeps (GÜNTHER, 1875) U. a. madurensis (BEDDOME, 1878) U. rubromaculata (BEDDOME, 1867) 54 Rare Animals of India Ganesh and Chandramouli U.
Endemic to Western Ghats south of Nilgiris. Three species known. Xylophis captaini GOWER & WINKLER, 2007 X. perroteti (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1854) X. stenorhynchus (GÜNTHER, 1875) GENUS: Boiga FITZINGER, 1826 Boiga dightoni (BOULENGER, 1894) Pirmed cat snake is a very rare, little-known, nocturnal, mildly venomous, tree snake found in Pirmed, High Range and Anaimalais. Prey items include lizards, nestling birds and other small creatures. It got its name because of their large catlike eyes, vertically elliptical pupil and nocturnal habits.