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Dr. Uttam Saikia

Scientist-D

Dr. Uttam Saikia

Scientist-D

 

Highest Academic degree, year

PhD, 2011

 

Department/Division

Zoological Survey of India, North Eastern Regional Centre,

Shillong

 

Email Address

uttamzsi@gmail.com; uttam.saikia@nic.in

 

Phone Number

9731910286

 

Area of Expertise

Small mammalian taxonomy (Bats and Rodents)

 

Experience after Ph. D.

12 years

 

Significant Achievements
  • Described and co-described two new species of bats
  • Reported four bat species for the first time from India and South Asia
  • Documentation and taxonomic investigations of the bat fauna of India especially in the western and eastern Himalayan region of India

 

Mentorship

Nil

 

Research Focus
  • Systematics of the bat fauna of India with special emphasis on the Himalayan region.
  • Echolocation call structure of Indian bats 
  • Cave fauna

 

Key publications

Over 30 publications in various national and International journals and book chapters

  • Uttam Saikia, Gabor Csorba and Manuel Ruedi (2017) First record of Hypsugo joffrei (Thomas.1915) and a review of Philetor brachyopterus (Temminck, 1840) (Chiroptera:Vespertilionidae) from the Indian Subcontinent Revue suisse de   Zoologie 124(1):83-89
  • Manuel Ruedi, Uttam Saikia, Adora Thabah, Tamas Gorfol, Sajan Thapa and Gabor Csorba (2021): Morphological and molecular revision of small Myotinae from the Himalayas shed new light in to the poorly known genus Submyotodon (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Mammalian Biology. 101:465-480 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-020-00081-3
  • Daniel Harris, Uttam Saikia and Ilona Kharkongor (2021) Siju cave revisited. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies  3 (2020) 119–130.
  • Uttam Saikia, Rohit Chakravarty, Vishwanath D. Hegde, Asem Bipin Meetei, Sergei Kruskop, Gabor Csorba & Manuel Ruedi (2021) First record of disk-footed bat, Eudiscopus denticulus (Osgood, 1932) (Chiroptera: Mammalia) from India with notes on its ecology. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 128(1): 187-198. https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0044
  • Uttam Saikia, Manuel Ruedi and Gabor Csorba (2022) Out of Southeast Asia: a new species of thick-thumbed bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Glischropus) from Meghalaya, north-eastern India. Zootaxa 5154 (3): 355–364  https://doi.org/10.11646/Zootaxa.5154.3.8

Books

  • Uttam Saikia, Ruedi, Manuel, Chakravarty, Rohit & Chaudhary, Harish Chandra (2021). Bats of Meghalaya. Environment and Forest Dept., Govt of Meghalaya and Zoological Survey of India, 180 pp

 

ResearchGate profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Uttam-Saikia

 

Social Media

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