First photographic evidence of Fishing Cat, Prionailurus viverrinus (Bennett, 1833) in Tampara Lake, Ganjam, Odisha

Authors

  • Ashis Kumar Das
     Zoological Survey of India, ‘M’-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata – 700053, West Bengal
  • Rajesh Kumar Behera
     Zoological Survey of India, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • Sandeep Kumar Mohapatra
     Zoological Survey of India, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • Smrutirekha Acharya
     Zoological Survey of India, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • Swarup Ranjan Mohanty
     Zoological Survey of India, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha
  • Basudev Tripathy
     Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Akurdi – 411044, Pune
  • Anil Mohapatra
     Zoological Survey of India, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam – 761002, Odisha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2/2023/171598

Keywords:

Freshwater Lake, Ramsar Site, Small Carnivore, Wetland

Abstract

Under the cat family of mammals, Fishing Cat Prionailurus viverrinus (Bennett, 1833) is a small carnivore under the Vulnerable category of IUCN, a globally declining species distributed in different wetland ecosystems across the east coast of India and its distribution pattern is extremely localized and patchy throughout the range. We report the presence of fishing cats through photographic evidence and secondary signs for the first time from the vicinity of the Tampara Lake of the Ganjam district of Odisha, from where the presence of fishing cat was never known.

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2023-11-03

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Das, A. K., Behera, R. K., Mohapatra, S. K., Acharya, S., Mohanty, S. R., Tripathy, B., & Mohapatra, A. (2023). First photographic evidence of Fishing Cat, <I>Prionailurus viverrinus</I> (Bennett, 1833) in Tampara Lake, Ganjam, Odisha. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 123(2), 159–164. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v123/i2/2023/171598

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Volume 123, Issue 2, 2023

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