Varad B. Giri

Varad B. Giri, Indian herpetologist.

Post Doctoral Fellow, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Varad Giri. 2008. A new rock dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Maharashtra, India. Hamadryad 32: 25–33 (Online)

Varad Giri, David J. Gower, Kshamata Gaikwad & Mark Wilkinson. 2011. A second species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) lacking secondary annular grooves. Zootaxa 2815: 49–58. Preview.

Datta-Roy, A, Mohapatra, P.P., Dutta, S.K., Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Maddock, S.T., Raj, P., Agarwal, I. & Karanth, K.P. 2013. A long-lost relic from the Eastern Ghats: Morphology, distribution and habitat of Sepsophis punctatus Beddome, 1870 (Squamata: Scincidae). Zootaxa 3670(1): 55–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.1.4 Reference page.

Deepak, V., Vyas, R., Giri, V.B. & Karanth, K.P. 2015. A taxonomic mystery for more than 180 years: the identity and systematic position of Brachysaura minor (Hardwicke & Gray, 1827). Vertebrate Zoology 65(3): 371–381. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Murthy, B.H.C.K., Bauer, A.M., Lajmi, A., Agarwal, I. & Giri, V.B. 2015. A new rock dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Chhattisgarh, India. Zootaxa 4021(2): 334–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.5. Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Gower, D.J., Giri, V., Captain, A. & Wilkinson, M. 2016. A reassessment of Melanophidium Günther, 1864 (Squamata: Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Western Ghats of peninsular India, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4085(4): 481–503. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.4.2 Reference page.
Deepak, V., Giri, V.B., Asif, M., Dutta, S.K., Vyas, R., Zambre, A.M., Bhosale, H. & Karanth, K.P. 2016. Systematics and phylogeny of Sitana (Reptilia: Agamidae) of Peninsular India, with the description of one new genus and five new species. Contributions to Zoology 85(1): 67–111. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Chaitanya, R., Giri, V.B. & Deepak, V. 2017. On the recent designation of a neotype for the taxon Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802) (Reptilia: Agamidae). Zootaxa 4317(3): 585–587. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.10. Reference page.
Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Captain, A., Das, A., Das, S., Rajkumar, K.P., Rathish, R.L. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India. Zootaxa 4319(1): 27–52. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.1.2. Reference page.
Giri, V.B., Bauer, A.M., Mohapatra, P.P., Srinivasulu, C. & Agarwal, I. 2017. A New Species of Large-bodied, Tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4347(2): 331–345. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.8. Reference page.

Agarwal, I., Mahony, S., Giri, V.B., Chaitanya, R. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. Two new species of bent toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Northeast India with comments on name-bearing types from the region. Zootaxa 4420(3): 334–356. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.3.2 Reference page.
Agarwal, I., Mahony, S., Giri, V.B., Chaitanya, R. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. Six new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeast India. Zootaxa 4524(5): 501–535. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.5.1 Reference page.
Agarwal, I., Khandekar, A., Ramakrishnan, U., Vyas, R. & Giri, V.B. 2018. Two new species of the Ophisops microlepis (Squamata: Lacertidae) complex from northwestern India with a key to Indian Ophisops. Journal of Natural History 52(13–16): 819–847. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1436203 Reference page.
Chaitanya, R., Lajmi, A. & Giri, V.B. 2018. A new cryptic, rupicolous species of Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Meghamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. Zootaxa 4374(1): 49–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.3 Reference page.

Giri, V.B., Chaitanya, R., Mahony, S., Lalrounga, S., Lalrinchhana, C., Das, A., Sarkar, V., Karanth, P. & Deepak, V. 2019. On the systematic status of the genus Oriocalotes Günther, 1864 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae) with the description of a new species from Mizoram state, Northeast India. Zootaxa 4638(4): 451–484. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.1. Reference page.
Giri, V.B., Gower, D.J., Das, A., Lalremsanga, H.T., Lalronunga, S., Captain, A. & Deepak, V. 2019. A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India. Zootaxa 4603(2): 241–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.2 Reference page.
Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Captain, A., Pawar, S. & Tillack, F. 2019. A New Species of Boiga Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from The Northern Western Ghats of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 116: 1–11. DOI: 10.17087/jbnhs/2019/v116/144901 Reference page.

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