Journal Publication

1. Mukherjee, A., A. Kumar, S. Mahato & S. Samanta (2023). An updated checklist of the butterfly fauna of Ajodhya Hills, Purulia, West Bengal, India along with new distribution records. Journal of Animal Diversity 5(1): 65-79; http://doi.org/10.61186/JAD.5.1.65

2. Samanta, S., D. Das & S. Mandal (2022). Diversity, status and guild structure of the avifauna in the Ajodhya Foothills, Baghmundi, Purulia, West Bengal, India. Tropical Ecology 64: 211-223. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-022-00265-7

3. Chakraborti, SD., D. Oraon & S. Samanta (2021). Orchidaceae in Ajodhya Hills of Purulia, West Bengal, India: diversity, threats and conservation strategies. Richardiana vol. 5: 267-282.

4. Samanta, S., K. Kumar & S. Mukherjee (2020). Photographic documentation of Ruddy Mongoose Urva smithii in West Bengal, India. Small Carnivore Conservation 58: e58014.

5. Samanta, S., D. Sen, A. Patra & S. Mukherjee (2019). Painted Spurfowl from the Chota Nagpur Plateau area of West Bengal. Indian BIRDS 15(4): 120.

6. Samanta, S., D. Das & S. Mandal (2017). Butterfly fauna of Baghmundi, Purulia, West Bengal, India: a preliminary checklist. Journal of Threatened Taxa 9(5): 10198–10207; http://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2841.9.5.10198-10207

Popular Science Publication

1. Samanta, S., A. Karmakar, A. Mukherjee & A.Patra (2022). Odonata diversity of Ajodhya Hills, West Bengal, India. Bugs R All #225, In: Zoo’s Print 37(1):67–73.

2. Samanta, S. (2022). Sharing is caring: three bat species eating from the same tree in a village of Purulia district, West Bengal, India. Small Mammal Mail #441, In: Zoo’s Print 37(1): 61–62.

3. Suresh, V., A. Anoop, D. Shetty, S. Madgulkar, T. Bhattacharjee, U. Ravindra, S. Samanta, N. Murmu, A. Joshi & A. Komanduri (2022). About time for a system update for Indian Zoos? Zoo’s Print 37(1): 34-46.

4. Ravindra, U., A. Komanduri, A. Joshi, A. Anoop, D. Shetty, N. Murmu, S. Madgulkar, S. Samanta, T. Bhattacharjee & V. Suresh (2022). How to make “rescue’ of wildlife’ conservation relevant? Zoo’s Print 37(1): 24-33.

5. Samanta, S., S. Mahato & A. Mukherjee (2021). Documentation of the globally threatened Indian Pangolin and its threats from Ajodhya Hills, Purulia, West Bengal, India. Mammal Tales #36, In: Zoo’s Print 36(12): 65–66.

6. Nishanth, C.V. & S. Samanta (2021). Butterflies: it’s raining lifers at Rainforest Retreat. Bugs R All #224, In: Zoo’s Print 36(12): 48–54.

7. Samanta, S., A. Dutta, B. Kumar & K. Kumar (2021). Eastern Indian Leopard Gecko from the plateau region of West Bengal, India. Reptile Rap #213, In: Zoo’s Print 36(11): 25–26.

8. Anoop, A., S. Madgulkar, D. Shetty, U. Ravindra, N. Murmu, T. Bhattacharjee, S. Samanta, A. Komanduri, V. Suresh & A. Joshi (2021). The Mahseer’s redemption! Can we save India’s freshwater megafauna from hybridization? Zoo’s Print 36(11): 18-24.

9. Samanta, S., D. Das & S. Mandal (2019). First record of the rare Anomalous Nawab Polyura (=Charaxes) agrarius (Swinhoe, 1887) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae) from Purulia, West Bengal, India. Bugs R All #174, In: Zoo’s Print 34(7): 29–32.