Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh

Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh, Indian herpetologist.

• Chennai Snake Park, Raj Bhavan post, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Kalinga Foundation, Agumbe, Karnataka, India.

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• 26 taxon names authored by Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh

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• Aengals, R. & 2013. Rhinophis goweri – A New Species of Shieldtail Snake from the Southern Eastern Ghats, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 20(1): 61–65. Abstract and PDF. Reference page. 
• Vogel, G. & 2013. A new species of cat snake (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae: Boiga) from dry forests of eastern Peninsular India. Zootaxa 3637(2): 158–168. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3637.2.6 Reference page. 

• & Vogel, G. 2018. Taxonomic reassessment of the Common Indian Wolf Snakes Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758) complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 67(1): 25–36. PDF Reference page. 

• , Dutta, S.K. & Chandramouli, S.R. 2017. On the taxonomy and nomenclature of common Indian cricket frog Rana agricola Jerdon, 1853 (Amphibia: Dicroglossidae). Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 6(2): 107–113. PDF Reference page. 

• Chandramouli, S.R., Ankaiah, D., Arul, V., Dutta, S.K. & 2019. On the taxonomic status of Minervarya granosa (Kuramoto, Joshy, Kurabayashi & Sumida, 2008) and the distribution of M. agricola (Jerdon, 1853) Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 8(1): 84–87. PDF Reference page. 
• Mallik, A.K., Achyuthan, N.S., , Pal, S.P., Vijayakumar, S.P. & Shanker, K. 2019. Discovery of a deeply divergent new lineage of vine snake (Colubridae: Ahaetuliinae: Proahaetulla gen. nov.) from the southern Western Ghats of Peninsular India with a revised key for Ahaetuliinae. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218851. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218851 Reference page. 

• & Srikanthan, A.N. 2020. A new species of shieldtail snake (Reptilia: Squamata: Uropeltidae) from Kolli Hill complex, southern Eastern Ghats, peninsular India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(4): 15436–15442. DOI: 10.11609/jott.5680.12.4.15436-15442 Reference page. 
• , Deuti, K., Punith, K.G., Achyuthan, N.S., Mallik, A.K., Adhikari, O. & Vogel, G. 2020. A new species of Lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Deccan Plateau of India, with notes on the range of Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870) and a revised key to peninsular Indian forms. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(3): 74–83. Reference page. 
• Mallik, A.K., Srikanthan, A.N., Pal, S.P., D’Souza, P.M., Shanker, K. & 2020. Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India. Zootaxa 4874(1): 1–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4874.1.1 Reference page. 
• Gowande, G., & Mirza, Z.A. 2020. A new cryptic species of bush frog (Amphibia: Anura: Raorchestes) from the Southern Eastern Ghats, India. Taprobanica 9(2): 164–173. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v9i2.229 Reference page. 

• , Srikanthan, A.N., Ghosh, A., Adhikari, O.D., Kumar, S.V.V. & Datta-Roy, A.. 2021. A new species of Asian gracile skink (Scincidae: Lygosominae: Subdoluseps) from the rain-shadow belts of Nilgiri hills, Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4950(2): 361–376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.7 Reference page. 
• , Punith, K.G., Adhikari, O.D. & Achyuthan, N.S. 2021. A new species of shieldtail snake (Squamata: Uropeltidae: Uropeltis) from the Bengaluru uplands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 13(6): 18508–18517. DOI: 10.11609/jott.6736.13.6.18508-18517 Reference page. 
• , Mallik, A.K., Achyuthan, N.S., Shanker, K. & Vogel, G. 2021. A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Southern Western Ghats of India with a molecular phylogeny and expanded characterisation of related species. Zootaxa 4981(3): 449–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.2 Reference page. 
• Mallik, A.K., Srikanthan, A.N., , Vijayakumar, S.P., Campbell, P.D., Malhotra, A. & Shanker, K. 2021. Resolving pitfalls in pit viper systematics – A multi-criteria approach to species delimitation in pit vipers (Reptilia, Viperidae, Craspedocephalus) of Peninsular India reveals cryptic diversity. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 577–619. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e66239 Reference page. 
• Srikanthan, A.N., Adhikari, O.D., , Deuti, K., Das, K., Kulkarni, V.M., Gowande, G.G. & Shanker, K. 2021. A molecular and morphological study of Otocryptis Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Agamidae) reveals a new genus from the far south of the Western Ghats, Peninsular India. Zootaxa 5016(2): 205–228. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.2.3 Reference page. 

• Adhikari, O.D., Achyuthan, N.S., Kumar, G.C., Khot, R.V., Shreeram, M.V. & 2022. Two new species of Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the rocky outcrops of the Deccan plateau, peninsular India. Zootaxa 5129(2): 227–249. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.2.4 Reference page. 
• David, P., Nadolski, B., , Adhikari, O.D. & Srikanthan, A.N. 2022. A Nomenclatural Review of Ahaetulla nasuta (Lacépède, 1789): resurrection of Ahaetulla fusca (Duméril, Bibron et Duméril, 1854) for the populations of the Indochinese Region (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 29(1): 19–34. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2022-29-1-19-34 Reference page. 
• & Murthy, B.H.C. 2022. Taxonomy of the shieldtail snake genus Teretrurus Beddome, 1886 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) with a revised key and remarks on the geographic gaps in the Western Ghats, Peninsular India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122(1): 25–35. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i1/2022/154229 Reference page. 
• , Samarawickrama, V.A.M.P.K., Urs, A.J., Srikanthan, A.N. & Adhikari, O.D. 2022. Resurrection of Boiga ranawanei Samarawickrama, Samarawickrama, Wijesena et Orlov, 2005, with Expanded Descriptions and Species Distribution Modelling of Some Indian Taxa of the B. ceylonensis Group (Reptilia: Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 29(6): 341–354. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2022-29-6-341-354 Reference page. 
• Srikanthan, A.N., Adhikari, O.D., Mallik, A.K., Campbell, P.D., Bhatt, B.B., Shanker, K. & 2022. Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 839: 120–148. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.839.1937 Reference page. 
• Vogel, G., Mallik, A.K., Chandramouli, S.R., Sharma, V. & 2022. A review of records of the Trimeresurus albolabris Gray, 1842 group from the Indian subcontinent: expanded description and range extension of Trimeresurus salazar, redescription of Trimeresurus septentrionalis and rediscovery of historical specimens of Trimeresurus davidi (Reptilia: Viperidae). Zootaxa 5175(3): 343–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.3.2 Reference page. 

• Adhikari, O.D., Srikanthan, A.N. & 2023. A new species of Dravidogecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the under-surveyed Periyar Plateau of the Southern Western Ghats in Peninsular India. European Journal of Taxonomy 870: 146–166. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.870.2125 Reference page. 

• Das, I., Gowri Shankar, P., Swamy, P., Williams, R.C., Lalremsanga, H.T., Prashanth, P., Sahoo, G., Vijayakumar, S.P., Höglund, J., Shanker, K., Dutta, S.K., & Wüster, W. 2024. Taxonomic revision of the king cobra Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836) species complex (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae), with the description of two new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 961: 1–51. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.961.2681 Reference page. 
• Cyriac, V.P., , Madani, Z., Ghosh, A., Kulkarni, V. & Shanker, K. 2024. Phylogenetic Systematics of the Shieldtail Snake Genus Teretrurus Beddome, 1886 (Squamata, Uropeltidae) Reveals Extensive Cryptic Diversity and Novel Geographic Spread in the Western Ghats of India. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3(2): 1–25. DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9630 Reference page.