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The zoological survey of India (ZSI) is a taxonomic research organization, established on 1st July 1916, dedicated itself to exploring and documenting the country’s faunal resources. It was a long felt need to update the faunal data of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve. This is the first consolidated pictorial document on the fauna of the Indian part of these deltaic mangrove islands, prepared with the latest published information from Protista to Mammalia, and documents over 2600 species of animals. Moreover, it records the discovery of new species exclusively from this vulnerable part of the world, as well as the unique Royal Bengal tiger, threats related to climate change and the socio-cultural profile of this UNESCO designated World Heritage site.

Contents: 1. Fauna of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve - an introduction/ Kailash Chandra, JRB Alfred, Bulganin Mitra and Biswajit Roy Chowdhury. 2. Bengalian Rain forest to Sundarban Biosphre Reserve - a journey towards conservation/Ranjana Saha and Bulganin Mitra. 3. Tigers of Sundarban/Biswajit Roy Chowdhury. 4. A Step towards understanding Sundarban tigers/Pradeep Vyas. 5. Diversity and conservation of mammalian fauna of Indian Sundarban/J K De. 6. Avian diversity of Indian Sundarban and their present status/Biswajit Roy Chowdhury and G. Maheswaran. 7. Reptilian diversity in the mangrove of Indian Sundarban/Kaushik Deuti. 8. Frogs and toads diversity of Indian Sundarban and threats/Kaushik Deuti. 9. Fish diversity of Indian Sundarban and its resource and research prospects/Subhrendu S Mishra and K C Gopi. 10. Molluscan diversity of Indian Sundarban with their conservational aspects/Tulika Biswas. 11. Insect faunal diversity and their ecosystem services in Sundarban Biosphere reserve/Bulganin Mitra. 12. Spring tails (Collembola: Hexapoda) diversity of Indian Sundarban and their importance in the mangrove ecosystem/Gurupada Mandal. 13. Horseshoe crab of Indian Sundarban/Basudeb Tripathy. 14. Crustacean diversity of Indian Sundarban and their sustainable utilisation/K. Valarmathi. 15. Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Sundarban/John T D Caleb, Sumantika Chatterjee and Vikas Kumar. 16. Soil-inhabiting nematodes of Indian Sundarban/Debabrata Sen. 17. Diversity of protista of Indian Sundarban/Chitra Jayapalan. 18. Threats of Indian Sundarban/Ajanta Dey and JRB Alfred. 19. New Discoveries from Indian Sundarban. 20. Protected animal species of Indian Sundarban. 21. Animal species recorded from Indian Sundarban (other than previous chapters). Suggested reading.