Sunder Lal Hora
Sunder Lal Hora FLS | |
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Director of the Zoological Survey of India | |
In office May 1947 – December 1955 | |
Preceded by | Baini Prashad |
Succeeded by | Mithan Lal Roonwal |
Personal details | |
Born | Ichthyologist | 22 May 1896
Sunder Lal Hora .
Life
Hora was born at
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1929. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, John Stephenson, Charles Henry O'Donoghue and James Ritchie.[2]
He died on 8 December 1955.[3][4]
Works
The
Hora was also among the Indian pioneers of fish and wildlife conservation and pointed out the effect of dams on the migrations of riverine fishes and noted the poor design of fish ladders in Indian dams.[7]
A genus of
The catfish genus Horabagrus is named after the Indian zoologist Sunder Lal Hora. Horabagrus is usually classified under the family Bagridae, but there are disagreements.
An extinct genus of fossil clupeid, Horaclupea, is named in honor of him.[8]
See also
Notes
- ^ Roonwal, M.L. (1956). "The Late Dr Sunder Lal Hora (1896-1955): an appreciation, together with a complete list of his scientific writings" (PDF). Records of the Indian Museum. 54 (3–4): 107–137.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- JSTOR 1440452.
- ^ Roonwal, M.L. "Sunder Lal Hora (1899-1955)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy. 22 (6): 287–303. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014.
- ^ Karanth, Praveen (2003). "Evolution of disjunct distributions among wet-zone species of the Indian subcontinent: Testing various hypotheses using a phylogenetic approach" (PDF). Current Science. 85 (9): 1276–1282.
- ^ Hora, Sunder Lal (1949). "Satpura hypothesis of the distribution of the Malayan fauna and flora to peninsular India" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India. 15B: 309–314. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2015.
- ^ Hora, S.L. (1940). "Dams and the problems of migratory fishes" (PDF). Current Science. 9 (9): 406–407.
- ISSN 0370-0097.
References
- Hora, S. L. 1944. On the Malayan affinities of the freshwater fish fauna of Peninsular India, and its bearing on the probable age of the Garo-Rajmahal Gap. Proc. Natl. Inst. Sci. India, 10(2):423–439.
- Hora, S. L. 1949. Satpura Hypothesis of the Distribution of the Malayan Fauna and Flora to Peninsular India. Proc. Natl. Inst. Sci. India, 15(8):309–314.