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Dr. P.C. Tudu

Scientist – D

Dr PRASAD CHANDRA TUDU

Scientist-D

Highest Academic degree, year

Ph.D.; 2019

 

Department/Division

Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre

 

Email Address

tuduprasad.c@zsi.gov.in; tuduprasad@gmail.com

 

Phone Number

+91 98007 74662

 

Area of Expertise

Taxonomy of Marine Mollusc, Intertidal Fauna, Maintenance of Marine Aquarium

 

Experience after Ph. D.

4 years

 

Significant Achievements

New species discovered: 1 species of sea slug & 2 species of marine fishes

New records to India: 4 species of mollusc & 3 species of fishes.

Ongoing studies on status of Windowpane Oyster in India

 

 

Mentorship

Supervised 02Internship students (M.Sc)

 

Research Focus

- Taxonomy and classification of marine mollusc

- Species diversity and distribution patterns of intertidal fauna

- Management and maintenance of Marine Aquarium

- Study on status of schedule mollusc of India

 

Publications

Book: One

Book chapter: 9

Papers: 47 (including 19 SCI)

Significant publications

Anil Mohapatra & Prasad Chandra Tudu, 2017. Guide on some Marine Aquarium Fauna, Zoological Survey of India, 1-85.

Prasad Chandra Tudu, Sheikh Sajan, Soumen Roy, Amit Mukhapadhyay, Basudev Tripathy, Anil Mohapatra, 2022. A new species of Cephalaspidean sea slug of the genus Melanochlamys Cheeseman, 1881 (Heterobranchia: Aglajidae) from Bay of Bengal, India, Molluscan Research, published online on 25th Nov, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2022.2139583

 

Prasad Chandra Tudu, Sheikh Sajan, Laxman Kumar Murmu, S. Balakrishnan, Anil Mohapatra, 2022. Additional report of the uncommon Mactrid clam Oxyperaslentiginosum(Gould, 1852) from the East Coast of India and notes on its morpho-taxonomy, Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-022-00462-0

 

Prasad Chandra Tudu, Prasanna Yennawar and Anil Mohapatra, 2019. First report of two Ark shells, Anadara consociata (E.A. Smith, 1885) and Anadaratroscheli(Dunker, 1882) (Arcidae: Anadarinae) from Indian waters with notes on morpho-taxonomy of some related species from East coast of India, Records of Zoological Survey of India. 119(1): 34-48. DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i1/2019/141303

 

Anil Mohapatra, David G. Smith, Swarup Ranjan Mohanty, Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra and Prasad Chandra Tudu. 2017. Enchelycorepropinqua sp. nov., a new eel (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from the Indian Coast, Zootaxa, 4319(3):595-599.  https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4319.3.11

Anil Mohapatra, David G. Smith, Swarup Ranjan Mohanty,

 

Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra and Prasad Chandra Tudu. 2017. Gymnothoraxvisakhaensis sp. nov., a new species of elongate unpatterned moray eel (Muraenidae: Muraeninae) from the Indian Coast, Zootaxa, 4300(2):279-286. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4300.2.9

 

ResearchGate profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prasad_Tudu4

 

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YQHzOBwAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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