Rajkumar K.P.

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I am a wildlife biologist and researcher from India. I did my masters in Wildlife Biology and studied reptile diversity for masters dissertation. I studied the factors influencing amphibian and reptile diversity in the marshy grassland ecosystems and the status, distribution, activity pattern and vocalization of the Endangered Travancore Bush Frog (Roarchestes travancoricus) for my Ph.D.
I am also an EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) Fellow, working on the ecology of Galaxy Frog (Melanobatrachus indicus) in the Western Ghats, which is one of the rarest and beautiful frogs found in India. As part of the conservation initiatives of the project this species was elevated as the flagship species of Mathikettan Shola National Park in 2021 and the species became the first frog flagship species in India.

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Publications (9)

• Do human-modified landscapes influence composition and diversity of foraging guilds in mixed-species bird flocks in Wayanad, southern Western Ghats, India?
  Forest Ecology and Management 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123206
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• Discovery of a new species of kangaroo lizard (Squamata: Agamidae: Agasthyagama) from the southern Western Ghats of India
  Vertebrate Zoology 2024 DOI: 10.3897/vz.74.e113084
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• On the taxonomic validity of Boiga whitakeri Ganesh et al., 2021 with new insights on Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)
  Vertebrate Zoology 2023 DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e97002
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• A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India
  Vertebrate Zoology 2022 DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e89660
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• New locality records and call description of the Resplendent Shrub Frog Raorchestes resplendens (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats, India
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2020 DOI: 10.11609/jott.5994.12.11.16502-16509
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• Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India
  Zootaxa 2020 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.2
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• A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India
  Zootaxa 2017 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.1.2
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• Recent records and distribution off the Indian Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus Gray, 1837 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Herpestidae) from the southern Western Ghats,
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2016
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• New locality record of the Travancore Bush Frog Raorchestes travancoricus Boulenger, 1891 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2016 DOI: 10.11609/jott.2139.8.1.8379-8382
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