Journal Article
Current status of faunal diversity of Siju Cave, South Garo Hills, Meghalaya
Kharkongor, I.J., Saikia, U., Khynriam, D. and Saikia, B.
Record Number:
6359
Year:
2023
Journal:
Records of the Zoolological Survey of India
Pages:
283-303
Volume:
123
Abstract:
Siju Cave located in the South Garo Hills district of Meghalaya was extensively surveyed by the Zoological Survey of India
team led by Stanley Kemp and B. Chopra in 1922 for documenting its faunal diversity. That study led to the documentation
of a total of 102 species including descriptions of several new species. During the 2018-2020 period, multiple surveys
were undertaken to reassess the present faunal composition of the cave. Our study records only 36 species belonging to
11 major faunal groups, including 11 new records of the Cave. Among the 36 species documented, three species belong to
different threatened categories of the IUCN redlist.
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