Faculty

Broadly my research interests lies in understanding the biodiversity, ecology, biogeography and conservation of the freshwater ecosystems using anurans and molluscs as model systems in these ecosystems.

• Jadhav, A. S., Narayanan, S., Sidharthan, C., Köhler, F., & Aravind, N. A. (2023). Phylogeny of freshwater mollusc genus Brotia H. Adams, 1866 (Gastropoda: Pachychilidae) from northeast India. Invertebrate Systematics, 37(11): 772-781
• Mahapatra, B. B., Das, N. K., Jadhav, A., Roy, A., & Aravind, N. A. (2023). Global freshwater mollusc invasion: pathways, potential distribution, and niche shift. Hydrobiologia, 1-20
• Jadhav, A., N.K. Das, M. Sil and N. A. Aravind. (2023). Snails on the Plate: Edible Freshwater Molluscs of Northeast India. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 22(2): 409 – 419
• Padhye A., Jadhav A., Modak N., Nameer P.O., Dahanukar N. (2015). Hydrophylax bahuvistara, a new species of fungoid frog (Amphibia: Ranidae) from peninsular India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7(11): 7744 – 7760
• Padhye A., Jadhav A., Sulakhe S., Dahanukar N. (2015). Sexual dimorphism in the Kudremukh Bush Frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Raorchestes tuberohumerus) of the Western Ghats, India, with a note on its distribution and conservation status. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7(6): 7211- 7222
• Padhye A., Sayyed A., Jadhav A., Dahanukar N. (2013). Raorchestes ghatei, a new species of Shrub frog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra India. Journal of Threatned Taxa, 5(15): 4913-4931
• Padhye A., Jadhav A., Diwekar M., Dahanukar N. (2012). Population variations in Fungoid frog Hylarana malabarica (Anura: Ranidae) from Northern Western Ghats of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 4(2): 2343-2352
• SEMI TECHNICAL ARTICLES
• Aravind, N. A., G. Raja and A. Jadhav. (2025). Where are the Gaps? Addressing the Wallacean shortfall for Indian freshwater molluscs. Tentacle, 33: 21-23. https://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle/Tentacle_33.pdf
• Aravind, N.A. and A. Jadhav. (2024). Living on the edge: Proposed conservation status of Cremnoconchus species of the Western Ghats, India. Tentacle, 32: 6-8. https://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle/Tentacle_32.pdf
• Jadhav, A., N.K. Das and N.A. Aravind. (2020). Edible freshwater molluscs from Northeast India. Tentacle, 28: 3-4. https://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle/Tentacle_28.pdf
• BOOKS : N. A. Aravind and Jadhav. A. (2023). Edible non-marine molluscs of India.