Jayaditya Purkayastha

Jayaditya Purkayastha, Indian zoologist.

• Help Earth, 16, RNC Path, Lachitnagar, Guwahati, Assam, India.
• Department of Zoology, Gauhati University, Jalukbari, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Taxon names authored

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• 17 taxon names authored by Jayaditya Purkayastha

Publications

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2018

• Purkayastha, J., Kalita, J., Brahma, R.K., Doley, R. & Das, M. 2018. A review of the relationships of Xenochrophis cerasogaster Cantor, 1839 (Serpentes: Colubridae) to its congeners. Zootaxa 4514(1): 126–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.10 . Reference page. 

2019

• Purkayastha, J. & David, P. 2019. A new species of the snake genus Hebius Thompson from Northeast India (Squamata: Natricidae). Zootaxa 4555(1): 79–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.1.6 Reference page. 
• Purkayastha, J., Das, M., Mondal, K., Mitra, S. & Das, I. 2019. A new species of Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) from West Bengal State, Eastern India. Zootaxa 4691(5): 525–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.6 Reference page. 

2020

• Purkayastha, J., Das, M., Bohra, S.C., Bauer, A.M. & Agarwal, I. 2020. Another new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Guwahati, Assam, India. Zootaxa 4732(3): 375–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.3.2 Reference page. 

2021

• Rathee, Y.S., Purkayastha, J., Dalal, S. & Lalremsanga, H.T.: First record of Salazar’s Pitviper (Trimeresurus salazar) from Meghalaya, India, with comments on hemipenes. In: Reptiles & Amphibians. 2021: 28 (1), pp 131–136, doi:10.17161/randa.v28i1.15369.

2022

• Bohra, S.C., Zonunsanga, H.T., Das, M., Purkayastha, J., Biakzuala, L. & Lalremsanga, H.T. 2022. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic data reveal another new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus Gray: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Mizoram, India. Journal of Natural History 56(41–44): 1585–1608. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2119178 Reference page. 
• Lalremsanga, H.T., Chinliansiama, H., Bohra, S.C., Biakzuala, L., Vabeiryureilai, M., Muansanga, L., Malsawmdawngliana, F., Hmar, G.P., Decemson, H.T., Siammawii, V., Das, M. & Purkayastha, J. 2022. A new bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus Gray: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the state of Mizoram, India. Zootaxa 5093(4): 465–482. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.5 Reference page. 
• Purkayastha, J., Lalremsanga, H.T., Litho, B., Rathee, Y.S., Bohra, S.C., Mathipi, V., Biakzuala, L. & Muansanga, L. 2022. Two new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Northeast India. European Journal of Taxonomy 794(1): 111–139. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.794.1659 Reference page. 
• Rathee, Y.S., Purkayastha, J., Lalremsanga, H.T., Dalal, S., Biakzuala, L., Muansanga, L. & Mirza, Z.A. 2022. A new cryptic species of green pit viper of the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 (Serpentes, Viperidae) from northeast India. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0268402. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268402 Reference page. 

2023

• Sayyed, A., Kirubakaran, S., Khot, R., Abinesh, A., Harshan, S., Sayyed, A., Sayyed, M., Adhikari, O., Purkayastha, J., Deshpande, S. & Sulakhe, S. 2023. A new rupicolous day gecko species (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis) from Tamil Nadu, South India. Taprobanica 12(1): 5–13. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v12i1.295 Reference page. 
• Sayyed, A., Kirubakaran, S., Khot, R., Adhikari, O., Sayyed, A., Sayyed, M., Purkayastha, J., Deshpande, S. & Sulakhe, S. 2023. A new species of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, India. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology 12(1): 100–110. DOI: 10.53562/ajcb.82582 Reference page.