New Horizons in Biodiversity: Role of Animal Sciences in National Development: Vol 3 edited by B. N. Pandey, B. B. Kaliwal, R. B. Kaliwal Vedams Books 9788170195603 Contents: 1. Plankton diversity with reference to the physico-chemical properties of Budhabalanga river of Mayurbhanj (Odisha)/Anjali Pandal, Hemanta Kumar Sahu and Subhrakanta Jena. 2. First ever record of schilbid catfish, proeutropiicthys taakree (sykes, 1838) from North East region of India: Arunachal Pradesh/Keshav Kumar Jha and Kumar Chetri. 3. Diversity of brachyuran crabs of Ayiramthengu mangrove of Kayamkulam backwaters/Sujith Kumar S and S. Amina. 4. Molecular identification of mesopelagic fishes from the Southern coast of India/Bineesh K K and Basheer V.S. 5. Genetic diversity studies in six bivoltine races of bombyx mori I., based on phenotypic characters/Anita Kumari and N K. Tripathi. 6. Scuba diving and statistical study of marine gastropoda of Kondvil, Riagad district, coast of India/Sunil N. Khade and Priyanka B. Gaikwad. 7. On new species circumoncobothrium anushrii n.sp. of genus cotyloda (Wardle, Mcleod and Radinovsky, 1974). From fresh water fish mastacembellus armatus. at Wakdi dam: dist. Parbhani (M.S) India/Ravi Gyanoji Pradhan. 8. Fish diversity and abundance in relation to water quality of chandipur-on-sea, bay of Bengal, Odisha/Debansu Sekhar Pramanik, Ajay Kumar Patra and Swati Sucharita Mohanty. 9. Ichthyofaunal biodiversity of Manyad dam (Manyad river) dist. Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India/A D Shelke. 10. Perceive study of butterflies in Kandhar tank region, Nanded district, Maharashtra, India/V S Kanvate and R B Borse. 11. Faunal diversity of insects of fresh water lake of Ajmer Rajasthan/Rashmi Sharma. 12. Freshwater edible molluscan species diversity and their sustainable development in the state of Jharkhand: review/M C Mahata. 13. New record of potter wasp (hymenoptera: vespidae: eumeninae) from ara, Bihar, India: delta esuriens (fabricius, 1787)/B.K. Singh. 14. Fish diversity and habitat ecology of Chadwal stream in Kathua dist (J & K)/Bipu Khajuria and Seema Langer. 15. Fish diversity of Ashwi reservoier in relation to fish culture, Ahmednagar dist., Maharashtra/B A Pawar and S A Shelke. 16. Diversity of fishes, crustaceans and molluscs of Puthuvypin of Ernakulam dist, Kerala (South India)/Sahadevan P. 17. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy studies of seven different spiders webs of North Maharashtra region of M.S/Nayan R. Maheshwari, Mamrata G. Mahajan and Manojkumar Z Chopda. 18. Biodiversity of myxozoan parasites infecting freshwater fishes of fish farm of Parikshitgarh, Meerut dist./Abhishek Gupta and Bindu Sharma. 19. Red weaver ant as a potential source of medicine among the tribes of Mayurbhanj district, Odisha, India/Sushree Sudha Das, Subhrakanta Jena and Hemanta Kumar Sahu. 20. Population study of entomobryomorpha (class: collembola) of Kathara coalfield area of Jharkhand/Amita Hembrom. 21. Genetic diversity of eri silkworm philosamia ricini (Lepidoptera: saturniidae) ecoraces/Priti Pragyan Ray and Hema Kumar Nayak. 22. Zooplanktons as candidate biomonitors of coastal trace metal contamination in Kerala, India/Akhil Ignus, Miranda MTP, Mumthas Y and Vijay Laxmi Saxena. 23. Genetic diversity of mastitic bacterial isolates/Sadashiv S O and Basappa B. Kaliwal. Biodiversity can be quite easily defined as the diversity or variety of living organisms on this planet. It has been understood as the measure of the variety of organisms present in different ecosystems. This can refer to genetic variation, ecosystem variation or species variation within an area, biome or planet. This book entitled ‘A new horizons in Biodiversity’ consists of 23 chapters. The chapters are mainly focused on the diversity of Molluscs, Planktons, fishes, Crabs, Silkworms, Butterflies, Insects, Crustaceans, Spiders, etc., The authors have put an effort to explain each and every point of respective diversities. This book has been brought to the society, keeping in mind students of graduate and post graduate, research scholars and teaching faculty.