Diversity of aquatic herpitofauna of river Chandloi, Kota, Rajasthan

Author: 
Jyoti Sharma and Prahlad Dube

Herpetofauna includes the reptiles and amphibians of a particular region, habitat or geological period.This paper is a report of field study of aquatic amphibians and reptiles observed and recorded during January 2018 to December 2019. Chandloi River is a left bank tributary of Chambal River. It originates near Aalania village and meets the River Chambal near Mavasa village. The river flows nearly 90 km before entering Chambal River. The studies were carried out for a period of 2 years from January 2018 to December 2019.The present study revealed that class amphibia is represented by 5 species belonging to 4 genera of 2 families while class reptilia is represented by 4 species of 4 genera belonging to 3 families.The species richness is less insite 3,4 while species richness was more insite1 and 2. Abundance of animals of these two classes were more at site 2 in comparison to all other sites (1,3,4).

Paper No: 
3325