Faunal Diversity of Indian Himalaya

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The fauna of the Indian Himalaya have significant peculiarities. The fauna of the eastern parts is largely of tropical elements with their affinities to the indo Chinese and Malayan Sub regions of the Oriental Region. The western parts have fauna largely comprising of Palearctic, Mediterranean and Ethiopian elements, including endemics and autochthonous derivatives, with sporadic influxes of the Oriental fauna is east west stretch exemplifies a biogeographic grading and transition between the eastern humid tropical and the western steppes fauna that are well reflected in the forested ones. The fauna of the Indian Himalaya thus have an intermingling of Oriental and Palearctic Ethiopian elements Zoological Survey of India, for over more than a century, has been conducting faunal survey explorations, research and documentation of the faunal diversity of the varied biogeographic zones, including the Indian Himalayan Region, of the Country A careful assessment of the faunal diversity currently known from the Indian Himalaya one of the most significant biogeographic zones of the country, revealed that the level of faunal diversity richness of this biotic zone is very substantial, The fact was that no one had made as attempt to consolidate that information based on the authentic validation of the faunal diversity hitherto known or reported bum this region Zoological Survey of India (25) took up this task with the involvement of all the taxonomic experts on various groups of use, from Put’s to Mammalia. It was an inclusive process combining the extraction of metadata of species-from the all-available relevant literature-documented or recorded from the Indian Himalayan biogeographic zone, integration of the up-to-date data on the exploratory inventorying work on tasa of this region by 25l researchers, and collation of the most updated taxonomic nomenclature is species-validation of t of diverse groups, etc. This book, entitled "Tea of the has Himalaya" is the outcome of that task-the first attempt on a comprehensive documentation of the most updated inventory on the faunal diversity of the Indian Himalaya Whatever shortcomings that might arise in this effort are incidental as it was aimed to bring together the base love information as much exhaustive as possible Eighty five taxonomic experts and specialists of various groups of fauna, from Protozoa to Mammalia, have actively collaborated and contributed $2 chapters on fauna of their respective field of interest and study. **Contents and Sample Pages**