A REVIEW ON THE BIODIVERSITY OF HIGHER CHORDATES AT KHANWARI VILLAGE OF KAUSHAMBI

Abstract

The variety of life on Earth, comprising millions of plants, animals, microorganisms and the genes they carry, refers to biodiversity or biological diversity. It simply means the presence of the natural habitats of a wide range of plant and animal species or the diversity of plant and animal life in a given habitat. Biodiversity has a large number of values and is typically represented at three stages genetic diversity, diversity of the organisms, diversity of the environment. In this paper study has been conducted in a village known as the Khanwari. The village of Khanwari is located in Sirathu Block and Tehsil of the Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh. For the period from Jan 2017 to Dec 2017, this village was surveyed and studied in depth once a month. The analysis shows the village of Khanwari's rich higher chordate biodiversity. The notable diversity of vertebrates comprises 19 fish genera, 2 amphibian genera, 4 reptile genera, 12 bird genera and 13 mammal genera.