The NCBS Research Collections are arranged as:

  • Dry Collections: Primarily pinned insect specimens
  • Wet Collections: Primarily arachnids (spiders, scorpions, etc.) and herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) in 70% ethanol

Species for which NCBS holds type specimens are listed below:

  1. Hemidactylus sankariensis Agarwal, Bauer, Giri & Khandekar, 2019
  2. Hemidactylus chikhaldaraensis Agarwal, Bauer, Giri & Khandekar, 2019
  3. Cnemaspis agarwali Khandekar, 2019
  4. Cnemaspis thackerayi Khandekar, Gaitonde & Agarwal, 2019
  5. Cnemaspis shevaroyensis Khandekar, Gaitonde & Agarwal, 2019
  6. Ophisops pushkarensis Agarwal, Khandekar, Ramakrishnan, Vyas & Giri, 2018
  7. Wallaceophis gujaratensis Mirza, Vyas, Patel, Maheta & Sanap, 2016
  8. Sitana viciri Deepak et al., 2016
  9. Sitana laticeps Deepak et al., 2016
  10. Sitana spinaecephalus Deepak et al., 2016
  11. Sarada darwini Deepak et al., 2016
  12. Sarada superba Deepak et al., 2016
  13. Melanophidium khairei Gower, Giri, Captain & Wilkinson, 2016