Nipu Kumar Das

About

My research focuses on the systematics of terrestrial malacofauna found in the Indian region. The work also encompasses different fields including molluscan ecology, evolution, and the biogeography.

Employment

• Kamrup College, Chamata Assistant Professor
  2022 - Present
• Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Senior Research Fellow (SRF)
  2020 - 2022
• Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
  2018 - 2020

Education

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education PhD in Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
  2020 - Present
• Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment Ph.D. in Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
  2018 - Present
• National Institute of Technology Rourkela M.Sc. in Life Science (Zoology)
  2016 - 2018
• Pub Kamrup College (Gauhati University) B.Sc. in Zoology
  2013 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (13)

• Ecological drivers and diversity of freshwater molluscs in the lakes of three selected districts of Tamil Nadu, India
  Folia Malacologica 2026 DOI: 10.12657/folmal.034.014
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• New species of Georissa (Gastropoda: Hydrocenidae) and Acmella (Gastropoda: Assimineidae), with new records of Georissa from Northeast India
  European Journal of Taxonomy 2026 DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1060.3284
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• Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Land Snail Genus Cyclophorus Montfort, 1810 (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) Reveal the Evolutionary History of Indian Taxa
  Journal of Biogeography 2026 DOI: 10.1111/jbi.70264
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• Angustopila milium (Gastropoda: Hypselostomatidae) is one of the most widespread land snail species in South and Southeast Asia, due to its conspecificity with A. elevata, syn. nov
  Zoosystematica Rossica 2026 DOI: 10.31610/zsr/2026.35.1.57
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• Anti-predatory behaviour of a land snail Bensonies monticola W.H. Benson, 1838 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Ariophantidae) against an Aphaenogaster sp. (Arthropoda, Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Western Himalaya, India
  Journal of Fauna Biodiversity 2026 DOI: 10.70206/jfb.v2i4.17555
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• Global freshwater mollusc invasion: pathways, potential distribution, and niche shift
  Hydrobiologia 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10750-023-05299-z
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• Snails on the plate: Edible freshwater molluscs of Northeast India
  Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 2023 DOI: 10.56042/ijtk.v22i2.55225
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• Redescription and range extension of two carnivorous micro-snail species of the genus Sinoennea (Gastropoda: Streptaxoidea: Diapheridae) from Northeast India
  Journal of Conchology 2022
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• A new species from the Genus Georissa Blanford, 1864 (Gastropoda, Neritimorpha, Hydrocenidae) from a limestone cave of Meghalaya, Northeast India.
  Journal of Conchology 2021
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• Redescription of Acmella tersa (Benson, 1853), the type species of Acmella W.T. Blanford, 1869 (Gastropoda: Assimineidae), from Meghalaya, Northeast India
  Molluscan Research 2021 DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2021.1991255
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