STRENGTHENING CAPACITY FOR INVENTORY OF FAUNA IN BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS IN INDIA AND ITS NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES POSTERS Name & Address Title of Abstract Dr. Jahnavi Joshi, NCBS Fellow, Biodiversity Lab National Center for Biological Sciences, GKVK, Bellary Road Bengaluru 560065, India email: jj.jahnavi@gmail.com Mr. Prudhvi Raj Gunturu, LaCONES, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad email: prudhviraj999@gmail.com Species delimitation in a centipede genus Digitipes from the Western Ghats India Mr. S. Harikrishnan, Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani Dehradun 248 001 Uttarakhand email: s.harikrishnan09@gmail.com Diversity of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands Mr. Sujith V. Gopalan, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Thycaud Post, Poojappura Thiruvananthapuram - 695 014 Kerala, India email: sujith.vg@gmail.com, sujithvg@rgcb.res.in Ms. Lilly Margaret Eluvathingal, Nurses Quarters, Kanniamallai estate Munnar, Kerala 685612 email: lillymrgrt@yahoo.co.in Mr. Vidyadhar Atokore, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur PO, Bangalore- 560 0624, India email: vidyadhar.atkore@gmail.com Reflection of molecular systematics on amphibians of Western Ghats Delineating larval identities of select anurans from India Amphibian Diversity of Western Ghats: Taxonomic issues, challenges faced and the path ahead Patterns of fish diversity in the Mhadei river basin, Goa in the Western Ghats, India Ms. Barkha Subba, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur PO, Bangalore- 560 0624, India email: barkha.subba@atree.org Amphibians of Sikkim Himalayas Dr. Rajib Rudra Tariang, Dept. of Zoology, Digboi College, Digboi, Tinsukia, Assam, India 786171 email: rajibrudratariang@gmail.com, rajibcethosia@gmail.com Mr Jayanta Kumar Roy, Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University Diphu Campus, Karbi Anglong, 782462, India email:roy.jayantakumar47@gmail.com Taxonomy and Inventories Butterflies in Different Habitats, within Jokai Reserve Forest, Assam Dr Ramachandran Kotharambath, Department of Zoology, Government College Chittur Chittur, Palakkad Dt., Kerala, India. PIN-678104 email: ramachandrank6@gmail.com Mr Gaurav Agavekar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bellary Road, Bangalore-560065, Karnataka, India Golden age or the beginning of the Western Ghats caecilian taxonomy? Dr Abhijit Das, Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani Dehradun 248 001 Uttarakhand email: abhijit@wii.gov.in Easy to catch, but difficult to conserve: Snakes of Northeast India Dr Saibal Sengupta, Zoology Department Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati-781016, Assam, India email: senguptasaibal@yahoo.co.in Inventorying amphibian fauna in Northeast India Effect of habitat composition to the occurrence of selective amphibian species along head water stream, Lower Dibang valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India Taking stock: advancing taxonomic, ecological and conservation research on Indian butterflies Ms Nishma Dahal, Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan Lab National Center for Biological Sciences GKVK, Bellary Road Bengaluru 560065, India email: dahal.nishma@gmail.com Understanding Pika diversity in the Himalaya Ms. K Vaishnavi, Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), CCMB Annexe 1, Hyderabad email: vaishnavik@ccmb.res.in Biogeographic patterns in diversification of Viperidae in Indian sub-continent