Indian Journal of Ecology
Web of Science
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 52
  • Issue: 6

Notes on Genus Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) with New Distributional Records

  • Author:
  • Uttam Kumar Chaudhary, Swetapadma Dash1,*, Mathilakath Dasan Aswathy2, Priyadarsi Girija Sankar Sethy, Amartya Pal1
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 1560 to 1565

1Hemiptera SectionZoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, Kolkata-700 053, India

2Department of Zoology, Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Christ College (Autonomous), Affiliated to University of Calicut, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India

Museum and Taxidermy SectionZoological Survey of India, Kolkata-700 016, India

*E-mail: oasisnainital@yahoo.co.in

Online Published on 20 April, 2026.

Abstract

This paper reports three species of the genus Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897 namely, C. mammifera Attems, 1936, C. kelaarti (Humbert 1865) and C. xanthotricha (Attems 1898 ) from the eastern and north-eastern regions of India. Among these, C. mammifera is recorded for the first time fromAssam and West Bengal, and C. kelaarti is newly documented from Nagaland, India.

Keywords

Chondromorpha, Gonopod, India, Millipede, New state record