St. Josephs College Irinjalakuda

Dr. Sandeep Das ( On Leave)

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining

: 13-09-2022

Area of interest

: Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology especially in Amphibians and Reptiles

No of years of experience

: 3 Months

Academics

Course	Institution	Year
Bachelor of Science (B Sc.) in Zoology	St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth	2008
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Zoology	Farook College, Calicut	2011
Ph. D. in Zoology	University of Calicut	2022

Teaching Experience

Designation	Institution	Period
Research Fellow - Agasthyamala Anuran Project	Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi	2012-2015
Research Assistant	College of Forestry	2008-2009

Awards/Fellowships

Name of award/fellowship	Awarded by	Year
EDGE Hero Awardee	Zoological Society of London	2020-2022
EDGE fellowship Awardee	Zoological Society London	2017
Dr. C. Chandrasekharan Memorial Award	Kerala Forest Research Institute	2014

Book/Paper Publications

Title	Year	Indexed in
Narayanan, S, Das, S, Balan, A, Tom, R, Divakar, N, Rajkumar, K. P., Hopeland, P & Deepak, V (2022) A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 729-743.	2022	Scopus
Narayanan, S, Bhat, H. N. P., Paran, D., Das, S., & Aravind, N. A. (2022). Truly Absent or Sampling Gaps? Insights othe Potential Distribution of Duttaphrynus hololius (Günther, 1876) from Peninsular India. Current Herpetology, 41(2), 215- 229.	2022	Scopus
Das, S., Pal, S., Siddharth, S., Palot, M. J., Deepak, V., & Narayanan, S. (2022). A new species of large-bodied Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology, 72, 81-94.	2022	Scopus
Das, S., Syed, E. P., Divakar, N., Thomas, A., & Tapley, B. (2021). Predators of an evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered Frog Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis Biju and Bossuyt, 2003. Herpetology Notes, 14, 247-249.	2021	Scopus
Narayanan, S., Mohapatra, P. P., Balan, A., Das, S., & Gower, D. J. (2021). A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 219–230.	2021	Scopus
Ramvilas, G., Dhyani, S., Kumar, B., Sinha, N., Raghavan, R., Selvaraj, G., Divakar, N., Anoop, V. K., Shalu, K., Sinha, A., Kulkarni, A., Das, S., & Molur, S. (2021). Insights on COVID-19 impacts, challenges, and opportunities for India's biodiversity research: From complexity to building adaptations. Biological conservation, 255, 109003.	2021	Scopus
Narayanan, S., Suyesh, R., & Das, S. (2021). On the status and validity of the recently described Raorchestes kollimalai Gowande, Ganesh & Mirza 2020. Zootaxa, 4970(3), 597-600.	2021	Scopus
Das, S., K.P. Rajkumar, K.A. Sreejith, M. Royaltata & P. S. Easa (2020). New locality records and call description of the Resplendent Shrub Frog (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 12(11): 16502–16509.	2020	Scopus
Hime, P.M., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.C.M., Scott-Prendini, E., Brown, J.M., Thomson,R.C., Kratovil, J.D., Noonan, B.P., Pyron, R.A., Peloso, P.L.V., Kortyna, M.L., Keogh, J.S., Donnellan, S.C., Mueller, R.L., Raxworthy, C.J., Kunte, K., Ron, S., Das, S., Gaitonde, N., Green, D.M., Labisko, J., Che, J., Weisrock, D.W. (2020). Phylogenomics uncovers ancient gene-tree discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life. Systematic Biology, USYB-2019-084.	2020	Scopus
Deepak, V., Narayanan, S., Das, S., Rajkumar, K. P., Easa, P. S., Sreejith, K. A. & Gower D. J. (2020). Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa, 4755, 231–250	2020	Scopus
Michaels, C. J., Das, S., Chang, Y. M. and Tapley, B. (2018). Modulation of foraging strategy in response to distinct prey items and their scents in the aquatic frog Xenopus longipes (Anura: Pipidae). Herpetological Bulletin, (143).	2018	Scopus
Kanagavel, A., Eluvathingal, L. M., Parvathy, S., Kotharambath, R., & Das, S. (2017). Potential flagship species for improving support and garnering attention towards amphibian conservation in the Western Ghats, India. Diversity & Ecology of Amphibians of India, ENVIS Bulletin: Wildlife & Protected Areas, 19, 271-292	2017	Scopus
Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Captain, A., Das, A., Das, S., Rajkumar, K.P., Rathish, R.L. and Gower, D.J., (2017). A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India. Zootaxa, 4319(1), pp.27-52	2017	Scopus
Raghavan, R., Das, S., Nameer, P.O., Bijukumar, A. and Dahanukar, N. (2016) Protected areas and imperiled endemic freshwater biodiversity in the Western Ghats Hotspot. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 26(S1):78- 90.	2016	Scopus
Rajkumar, K.P., Prasad, T.S., Das, S., Sreehari, R., Easa, P.S., and Sreejith, K.A. (2016). 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 8(1): 8379-8382	2016	Scopus
Sreehari, R., Das, S., Gnanakumar, M., Rajkumar, K.P., Sreejith, K. P., Kiishor, N., Bhaskar, D., Easa, P. S., & Nameer, P.O (2016). Recent records and distribution of the Indian Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus Gray, 1837 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Herpestidae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(11): 9367-9370	2016	Scopus
Das, S. (2015). A checklist of amphibians of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8023–8035.	2015	Scopus
Nameer, P.O., Praveen, J., Bijukumar, A., Palot, M.J., Das, S., & Raghavan, R. (2015). A checklist of the vertebrates of Kerala State, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 7961–7970.	2015	Scopus
Praveen, E. S., Das, S., & Dilip, K. G. (2015). Sighting of Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris, and Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica from the Arabian Sea, off Ponnani, Kerala. India BIRDS 10(1): 26-27	2015	NA
Pratihar, S., Clark, JH., H.O., Dutta, S., Khan, M.S., Patra, B.C., Ukuwela, K.D.B., Das, A., Li, P., Jiang, J., Lewis, J. P., Pandey, B. N., Razzaque, A., Hassapakis, C., Deuti, K. & Das, S. (2014). Diversity and conservation of amphibians in South and Southeast Asia. Sauria 36(1): 9-59 (Germany).	2015	NA
Das, S., Kechery, S., Sreenivasan P. P., & Sreeranj C., (2013). Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla from Puthankadapuram, Kerala, India. Indian BIRDS 8(3) 73.	2013	NA
Sreekar R, Mohan A, Das, S., Agarwal P, Vivek R (2013) Natural Windbreaks Sustain Bird Diversity in a Tea-Dominated Landscape. PLoS ONE 8(7): e70379.	2103	NA
Zachariah, A., Abraham, R.K., Das, S., Jayan, K.C. & Altig, R. (2012) A detailed account of the reproductive strategy and developmental stages of Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Anura: Nasikabatrachidae), the only extant member of an archaic frog lineage. Zootaxa, 3510, 53–64	2012	Scopus
Zachariah, A., Dinesh, K. P., Kunhikrishnan, E., Das, S., Raju, D. V., Radhakrishnan, C., Jafer Palot, M. &Kalesh, S. (2011) Nine new species of frogs of the genus Raorchestes (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from southern Western Ghats, India. Biosystematica, 5(1): 25-48	2011	Scopus

Paper Presentaion

Title	Conference/Seminar Details	Date
SAmphibian diversity of Eravikulam National Park	National conference on Innovations in Biodiversity Conservation in Indian Scenario. St Aloysius College Elthuruth. March 13-14	13-03-2018
How do you understand a frog that surfaces for only seven days in a year	Students Conference on Conservation Science, University of Cambridge. March 22-24	22-03-2016
Frogs of Kerala	National Seminar on Biodiversity Conservation; Trends and Prospects. Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala. September 17-18.	17-09-2015