This book enumerates the fauna of the Indian Gangetic Plains, a large area in northern and eastern India that lies at the foot of the Himalayas and has the Ganges river flowing through it. Based on field surveys in different periods and a collation of existing information it covers both invertebrates and vertebrates in 31 chapters.
1. Faunal Diversity of Indian Gangetic Plains - An overview / Kailash Chandra, Dhriti Banerjee, C. Raghunathan, Devanshu Gupta, Prabhakar Rai and Gopal Sharma
2. Platyhelminthes / Anindita Ghosh
3. Rotifera / Joyjit Ghosh, Prabhakar Rai and Devanshu Gupta
4. Nematoda: Nematode parasites of vertebrates / Pallab Maity, Anjum N. Rizvi and Prabhakar Rai
5. Nematoda : Soil Nematodes / Anjum N. Rizvi, Pallab Maity, Prabhakar Rai and Arnab Kar
6. Nematoda (Nematodes parasitic in arthropods) / Anjum N. Rizvi and Ritika Datta
7. Acanthocephala / Joyjit Ghosh, Soumit Dutta and Devanshu Gupta
8. Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta and Hirudinea / Shakoor Ahmed, Prabhakar Rai and Devanshu Gupta
9. Arachnida / Souvik Sen, Shelley Acharya and Ratnesh Karjee
10. Crustacea / Joyjit Ghosh, Prabhakar Rai, Devanshu Gupta and C. Raghunathan
11. Collembola / Gurupada Mandal
12. Insecta: Ephemeroptera / Soumit Dutta, Joyjit Ghosh and Prabhakar Rai
13. Insecta: Odonata / Joyjit Ghosh, Devanshu Gupta and Kailash Chandra
14. Insecta: Orthoptera / Hirdesh Kumar, Kailash Chandra, Joyjit Ghosh and Devanshu Gupta
15. Insecta: Phasmida / Devanshu Gupta, Joyjit Ghosh and Kailash Chandra
16. Insecta: Dermaptera / Joyjit Ghosh, Soumit Dutta, Devanshu Gupta and K.G. Emiliyamma
17. Insecta: Mantodea / Devanshu Gupta, Joyjit Ghosh, Shakeel Ahmed and Kailash Chandra
18. Insecta: Blattodea: Isoptera (Termites) / Joyjit Ghosh, Debika Bhunia, Kailash Chandra and Devanshu Gupta
19. Insecta: Psocoptera / Soumit Dutta, Joyjit Ghosh, Devanshu Gupta and Kailash Chandra
20. Insecta: Phthiraptera / Aftab Ahmed, Soumit Dutta, Kailash Chandra and Devanshu Gupta
21. Insecta: Thysanoptera / Devkant Singha, Kaomud Tyagi and Vikas Kumar
22. Insecta: Hemiptera / M E Hassan, Paramita Mukherjee and Sandeep Kushwaha
23. Insecta: Hymenoptera / Longjam Roni Kumar Singh, Jagdish Saini, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Devanshu Gupta and Kailash Chandra
24. Insecta: Coleoptera / Devanshu Gupta, Kailash Chandra, Joyjit Ghosh, Priyanka Das, Soumit Dutta and Jagdish Saini
25. Insecta: Neuroptera / Devanshu Gupta, Joyjit Ghosh, Prabhakar Rai and Kailash Chandra
26. Insecta: Lepidoptera (Butterflies) / Priyanka Das, Suresh Kr Shah, Navneet Singh, Prabhakar Rai and Devanshu Gupta
27. Insecta: Lepidoptera (Moths) / Rahul Joshi, Joyjit Ghosh, Shahbab Ahmed Farooqui and Navneet Singh
28. Insecta: Diptera / Dhriti Banerjee, Atanu Naskar, Debdeep Pramanik and Surajit Hazra
29. Myriapoda: Diplopoda and Chilopoda / Devanshu Gupta, Joyjit Ghosh, Priyanka Das and Shakeel Ahmed
30. Mollusca / Basudev Tripathy and S K Sajan
31. Vertebrata / Kailash Chandra, C. Raghunathan, Prabhakar Rai, Joyjit Ghosh, Jagdish Saini and Devanshu Gupta
Annexure`