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Zoological Survey of India: Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

2022-06-27 to present | Scientist-E & Officer-In-Charge (Reptilia Section)
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Pratyush Mohapatra

Zoological Survey of India: Kolkata, West Bengal, IN

2022-03-22 to 2022-06-26 | Scientist-D & Officer-In-Charge (Reptilia Section)
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Pratyush Mohapatra

Zoological Survey of India: Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, IN

2017-05-01 to 2022-03-22 | Scientist-D (Central Zone Regional Centre)
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North Orissa University: Baripada, Orissa, IN

2005 to 2008 | PhD (P.G. Department of Zoology)
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Pratyush Mohapatra

Utkal University: Bhubaneswar, Orissa, IN

2000 to 2002 | M.Sc. (P.G. Department of Zoology)
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Pratyush Mohapatra

Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology: Bhubaneswar, Orissa, IN

1997 to 2000 | B.Sc (College of Basic Sciences and Humanities)
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Works (36)

Designation of a Neotype for Herpetoreas xenura (Wall, 1907) (Squamata: Serpentes: Natricidae)

Zootaxa
2025-04-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5620.1.9
Contributors: TAN VAN NGUYEN; SUMIDH RAY; PATRICK DAVID; PRATYUSH P. MOHAPATRA
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A new long-snouted vine snake species in the genus Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Colubridae: Chrysopeleinae) from India

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2024.04.017
Contributors: Zeeshan A. Mirza; Soham Pattekar; Sourabh Verma; Bryan L. Stuart; Jayaditya Purkayastha; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; Harshil Patel
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Predation of a Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa latipes (Drury 1773), by a Peninsular Rock Agama, Psammophilus blanfordanus (Stoliczka 1871), from Odisha, India.

Reptiles & Amphibians
2024-11-03 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.17161/randa.v31i1.21629
Part of DOI: 10.17161/randa.v31i1
Part of ISSN: 2332-4961
Contributors: Subhrakanta Jena; Rakesh Kumar Mohalik; Pratyush Mohapatra; Hemanta K. Sahu
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Discovery of the cicada genus Becquartina Kato, 1940 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) in India with the description of a new species from Meghalaya

Zootaxa
2024-03-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.1.7
Contributors: VIVEK SARKAR; RODESON THANGKHIEW; CUCKOO MAHAPATRA; PRATYUSH P. MOHAPATRA; MANOJ V. NAIR; SUDHANYA R. HAJONG
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Hemidactylus paucifasciatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), a new species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko from Northern Odisha, India

Zootaxa
2023-06-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.3.3
Contributors: PRATYUSH P. MOHAPATRA; ISHAN AGARWAL; RAKESH KUMAR MOHALIK; SUSHIL K. DUTTA; AKSHAY KHANDEKAR
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Unravelling the limb regeneration mechanisms of Polypedates maculatus, a sub-tropical frog, by transcriptomics

BMC Genomics
2023-03-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09205-8
Part of ISSN: 1471-2164
Contributors: Cuckoo Mahapatra; Pranati Naik; Sumanta Kumar Swain; Pratyush Paradarsita Mohapatra
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On the taxonomic validity of Boiga whitakeri Ganesh et al., 2021 with new insights on Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)

Vertebrate Zoology
2023-01-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e97002
Contributors: Surya Narayanan; Sandeep Das; Y. Muhammed Anvar; Frank Tillack; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; David J. Gower; K. P. Rajkumar; V. Deepak
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Habitat selection and diet of the Asian small-clawed otter in Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, India

Écoscience
2023-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2023.2165020
Contributors: Himanshu Shekhar Palei; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; Syed Ainul Hussain
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The evolutionary history of an accidental model organism, the leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius (Squamata: Eublepharidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107414
Part of ISSN: 1055-7903
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A new species of Sitana (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Deccan Peninsula Biogeographic Zone of India

Zootaxa
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4948.2.6
WOSUID: WOS:000745545100004
Contributors: Deepak, V; Tillack, Frank; Kar, Niladri B.; Sarkar, Vivek; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.
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Description of three new species of the genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Oncotympanini) with notes on their natural history from Indian state of Meghalaya, India

Zootaxa
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4908.1.1
WOSUID: WOS:000608773700001
Contributors: Sarkar, Vivek; Mahapatra, Cuckoo; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Nair, Manoj V.; Kunte, Krushnamegh
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Revealing two centuries of confusion: new insights on nomenclature and systematic position of Argyrogena fasciolata (Shaw, 1802) (auctt.), with description of a new species from India (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)

Vertebrate Zoology
2021-05-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e64345
Contributors: V. Deepak; Surya Narayanan; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; Sushil K. Dutta; Gnanaselvan Melvinselvan; Ashaharraza Khan; Kristin Mahlow; Frank Tillack
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A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India

Vertebrate Zoology
2021-04-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e63986
Contributors: Surya Narayanan; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; Amirtha Balan; Sandeep Das; David J. Gower
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First record of Wroughton’s Small Spiny Mouse Mus phillipsi Wroughton, 1912 (Rodentia: Muridae) from Odisha, India with notes on diversity and distribution of other rodents

Journal of Threatened Taxa
2021-02-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11609/jott.4989.13.2.17611-17618
Contributors: Pratyush P. Mohapatra; S.S. Talmale; V. Sarkar; S.K. Dutta
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Some biological aspects of the central Indian endemic scorpion Hottentotta jabalpurensis Kovařík, 2007 (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Journal of Threatened Taxa
2021-02-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11609/jott.6429.13.2.17712-17721
Contributors: Pragya Pandey; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; D.B. Bastawade
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A novel, diminutive Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a sacred grove in Odisha, eastern India

Zootaxa
2020-09-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.4.6
Part of ISSN: 1175-5334
Part of ISSN: 1175-5326
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Antibiotic susceptibility of cultivable aerobic microbiota from the oral cavity of Echis carinatus from Odisha (India)

Microbial Pathogenesis
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104121
Part of ISSN: 0882-4010
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Additions to the cicada (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of India: first report and range extension of four species with notes on their natural history from Meghalaya

Journal of Threatened Taxa
2020-06-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11609/jott.5668.12.9.16021-16042
Contributors: Vivek Sarkar; Cuckoo Mahapatra; Pratyush P. Mohapatra; Manoj V. Nair
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"Endangered or an artifact of unsound taxonomy? Case of the critically endangered bush frog Philautus sanctisilvaticus Das and Chanda, 1997"

Zootaxa
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4683.4.6
WOSUID: WOS:000489607300006
Contributors: Mirza, Zeeshan A.; Warekar, Priya; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Raju, David; Patil, Pranad; Dutta, Sushil K.; Pal, Saunak
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A new species of Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Ahaetullinae) from India

Journal of Natural History
2019-03-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1589591
Contributors: V. Deepak; Surya Narayanan; Vivek Sarkar; Sushil K. Dutta; Pratyush P. Mohapatra
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Ethnobiological knowledge and socio-biodiversity value among Kutia-Kandha tribe of Odisha, India

Journal of Traditional and Folk Practices
2018-09-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.25173/jtfp.2017.5.2.72
Part of ISSN: 2278-5906
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Pratyush Mohapatra

Two New Species of Cricket Frogs of the Genus <I>Fejervarya bolkay</I>, 1915 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Peninsular India

Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2018-03-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i1/2018/121436
Part of ISSN: 0375-1511
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Pratyush Mohapatra

Ahaetulla nasuta anomala (Annandale, 1906) (Squamata: Colubridae), resurrected as a valid species with marked sexual dichromatism

Zootaxa
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4263.2.6
WOSUID: WOS:000400747000006
Contributors: Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Dutta, S. K.; Kar, Niladri B.; Das, Abhijit; Murthy, B. H. C. K.; Deepak, V.
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A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India

Zootaxa
2017-11-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.8
Part of ISSN: 1175-5334
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PRATYUSH P. MOHAPATRA, S. K. DUTTA, NILADRI B. KAR, ABHIJIT DAS, B. H. C.K MURTHY &amp; V. DEEPAK (2017) Ahaetulla nasuta anomala (Annandale, 1906) (Squamata: Colubridae), resurrected as a valid species with marked sexual dichromatism. Zootaxa, 4263: 318–332.

Zootaxa
2017-07-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.3.13
Part of ISSN: 1175-5334
Part of ISSN: 1175-5326
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Pratyush Mohapatra

A contribution to the indian trinket snake, coelognathus helena (Daudin, 1803), with the description of a new subspecies

Russian Journal of Herpetology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84976577260

Part of ISSN: 10262296
Contributors: Mohapatra, P.P.; Schulz, K.-D.; Helfenberger, N.; Hofmann, S.; Dutta, S.K.
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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDIAN TRINKET SNAKE, Coelognathus helena (DAUDIN, 1803), WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES

Russian Journal of Herpetology
2016 | Journal article
WOSUID: WOS:000382515000006
Contributors: Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Schulz, Klaus-Dieter; Helfenberger, Notker; Hofmann, Sylvia; Dutta, Sushil K.
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Expression of temperature-sensitive ion channel TRPM8 in sperm cells correlates with vertebrate evolution

PeerJ
2015-10-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1310
Part of ISSN: 2167-8359
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14. New record of Lesser Blue Wing Rhyothemis triangularis Kirby, 1889 (Odonata: Libellulidae) from Odisha, India

Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.17087/bnhs/2014/vlllil/56544
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2-s2.0-85029230178

Part of ISSN: 00066982
Contributors: Sajan, S.K.; Mohapatra, P.P.
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Occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter Aonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815) in Eastern India

Current Science
2014 | Journal article
WOSUID: WOS:000340690000017
Contributors: Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Palei, Himanshu S.; Hussain, Syed Ainul
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Occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter Aonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815) in Eastern India

Current Science
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84905915355

Part of ISSN: 00113891
Contributors: Mohapatra, P.P.; Palei, H.S.; Hussain, S.A.
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<p class="HeadingRunIn"><strong>The first teresomatan caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from the Eastern Ghats of India—a new species of <em>Gegeneophis</em> Peters, 1880</strong></p>

2013 | Journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3693.4.7

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1175-5334
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A long-lost relic from the Eastern Ghats: Morphology, distribution and habitat of Sepsophis punctatus Beddome, 1870 (Squamata: Scincidae)

Zootaxa
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3670.1.4
WOSUID: WOS:000320105700004
Contributors: Datta-Roy, Aniruddha; Mohapatra, Pratyush P.; Dutta, Sushil K.; Giri, Varad B.; Veerappan, Deepak; Maddock, Simon T.; Raj, Prudhvi; Agarwal, Ishan; Karanth, Praveen
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Dry Season Diet of the Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) in Hadagarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Eastern India

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s12595-013-0070-7

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0373-5893
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Notes on Feeding Behaviour of Sibynophis Sagittarius (Cantor, 1839) (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Hamadryad
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84876349383

Part of ISSN: 0972205X
Contributors: Mohapatra, P.R.
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Psammodynastes pulverulentus (Mock viper). India: Andhra Pradesh

Herpetological Review
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-82455217338

Part of ISSN: 0018084X
Contributors: Mohapatra, P.P.; Das, A.; Dutta, S.K.
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