Recent Publications

Bera, S. K., Bar, S., Sahoo, D., Pal, P. P., & Ghorai, S. K. (2026). Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages Elucidate Ecological Succession and Test Mineralogy in a Newly Colonized Mangrove of the Subarnarekha Estuary in the Northeastern Bay of Bengal. Marine Environmental Research, 108458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.108458 

Khatua, S., Jana, S., Bar, S., & Ghorai, S. K. (2026). Study of Odonata in the coastal-influenced area of Purba Medinipur District with a note on seasonal fluctuations and species composition. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 18(9), 29684-29699. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9854.18.9.29684-29699 

Das, S., Giri, A., Bera, S.K., Ghorai, S.K. & Phani, V. (2026). Aphelenchoides subbotini sp. n. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) from roots of mangrove plant Excoecaria agallocha in India. Russian Journal of Nematology, 34(2), 117–129. https://doi.org/10.65395/262.390913 

Das, S., Phani, V., & Ghorai, S. K. (2026). Occurrence of Aphelenchoides bicaudatus in a Mangrove Ecosystem on the East Coast of India, with the Description of the Extremely Rare Male. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 78(3), 349. https://doi.org/10.71424/azb78.3.003134 

Bar, S., Kamila, B., Pal, P. P., Bhaumik, A. K., & Ghorai, S. K. (2026). Multi-metal competitive adsorption on plastic polymers: Evidence from single and binary metal exposure experiments. Chemosphere, 405, 144952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2026.144952

Majhi, J., Dhara, S., & Ghorai, S. K. (2026). A new species, Tubulanus kajiharai sp. nov. (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea) from Subarnarekha Estuary, India. Marine Biology Research, 1–12. doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2026.2639417 

Bar, S., Sahu, R., Bhaumik, A. K., Bera, S. K., & Ghorai, S. K. (2026). Microplastiglomerates as emerging pollutant sinks: Characterization and heavy metal retention studies. Science of The Total Environment, 1017, 181491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181491

Bar, S., & Ghorai, S. K. (2025). Ecological footprint of microplastics in coastal and estuarine environments of India: Sediment-water interface analysis. Science of The Total Environment, 997, 180151. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180151 

Pal, P. P., Bar, S., Bera, S. K., Sahoo, D., & Ghorai, S. K. (2025). A Multi-Technique Investigation to Explore the Structural Integrity and Chemical Complexity of the Brachiopod Lingula anatina (Lamarck, 1801) Shells. Journal of Structural Biology, 108248. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2025.108248 

Bar, S., Das, S., Bera, S., Bera, S. K., Sahu, R., & Ghorai, S. K. (2025). Assessing microplastic accumulation in the hepatopancreas of marine and freshwater crabs from the North-East Part of the Bay of Bengal. Environmental Research Communications, 7(8), 085001. doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adf499 

Dhara, S., Majhi, J., Mandal, B., Bhadury, P., Bhattacharya, S., & Ghorai, S. K. (2025). Polydendrorhynchus amaleshii sp. nov., a New Species With Branched Proboscis (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) From the North-East Coastal Bay of Bengal. Zoological Science, 42(3). doi.org/10.2108/zs240093 

Majhi, J., Dhara, S., & Ghorai, S. K. (2025). A New Species of Prosadenoporus (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera) from the North-East Coast of the Bay of Bengal, India. Zoological science, 42(2), 240-247. doi.org/10.2108/zs240094 

Giri, A., Bera, S. K., Das, S., Mandal, B., & Ghorai, S. K. (2024). New distribution record: Pseudolella mangrovi Gagarin and Thanh, 2016 (free-living marine nematode) from Talsari Mangrove Mudflats, North-East Coast of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 123-130.