Burrowing adaptations and anthropogenic threats of a dune cricket, Schizodactylus monstrosus (Drury) : A case study from Champa river bank, West Bengal, India

Suvabrata Khatua; Soumik Dhara; Ritam Sahu; Sudipta Kumar Ghorai

doi:10.52756/ijerr.2020.v23.005

Suvabrata Khatua Coastal ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Egra SSB College, West Bengal, India
Soumik Dhara Coastal ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Egra SSB College, West Bengal, India
Ritam Sahu Coastal ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Egra SSB College, West Bengal, India
Sudipta Kumar Ghorai Coastal ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Egra SSB College, West Bengal, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-3632

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/ijerr.2020.v23.005

Keywords: Adaptation, Champa river bank, cricket, Schizodactylus monstrosus

Abstract

Schizodactylus monstrosus (Drury) is an Orthoptera belongs to the family Schizodactylidae. Previously although various works has been done on burrowing behavior of the species Schizodactylus monstrosus, our investigation unfolds some new facts about their burrowing behavior. Through this paper we also focus on some anthropogenic threats that causes decline in their population vigorously.

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