This book enumerates the fauna of the Indian Desert Biogeographic Zone in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, further divided into two biotic provinces: the That Desert and Kachchh. Based on field surveys in different periods and a collation of existing information it covers 3,346 species, both invertebrate and vertebrate, in 11 chapters.
1. Faunal Diversity of Indian Desert Biogeographic Zone: An overview / Kailash Chandra, Devanshu Gupta, C Raghunathan, Sanjeev Kumar and Jagdish Saini
2. Protozoa / Santosh Kumar and Daizy Bharti
3. Platyhelminthes / Anindita Ghosh, Jagdish Saini and Devanshu Gupta
4. Nematoda (Soil Nematodes) / Anjum N. Rizvi, Jagdish Saini, Pallab Maity and Keya Haldar
5. Nematoda (Nematode parasites of Vertebrates) / Pallab Maity, Jagdish Saini and Anjum N. Rizvi
6. Annelida / Shakoor Ahmed and Jagdish Saini
7. Arthropoda: Arachnida / Devanshu Gupta, Jagdish Saini, Kailash Chandra, Joyjit Ghosh, Priyanka Das and Debika Bhunia
8. Arthropoda: Crustacea / Jagdish Saini, Devanshu Gupta, Ishtiaq Ahmed and Longjam Roni Kumar Singh
9. Arthropoda: Hexapoda / Kailash Chandra, Devanshu Gupta, Jagdish Saini, Longjam Roni Kumar Singh, Ishtiaq Ahmed, SI Kazmi, Rahul Joshi, Sandeep Kushwaha, Priyanka Das, Joyjit Ghosh and Debika Bhunia
10. Mollusca / Basudev Tripathy, Sheikh Sajan and Devanshu Gupta
11. Chordata: Vertebrata / Harshil Patel, Devanshu Gupta, Kailash Chandra, C. Raghunathan and Sanjeev Kumar
Annexure