Gopika took her Masters in Zoology from University of Kerala. Having grown up around forests of the Western Ghats, she is fascinated with the diversity of Indian frogs and interested to study their conservation requirements. She has joined the Systematics lab for a PhD and is planning her research on developmental biology, tadpole morphology, and evolution of larval traits in selected Indian frogs.


Fellowship
CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship, Government of India

Publications

Gopika C*, Garg S, Sivapuram C, Gokulakrishnan G, and Biju SD#. 2023. Larval morphology and natural history in two Minervarya) species from Andaman Islands, with comments on a new phytotelmonous larval morphotype for the genus. Zootaxa 5353 (6): 567–581. https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5353.6.4

Garg S, Sivaperuman C, Gokulakrishnan G, Gopika C, Das I, and Biju SD. 2002. The curious case of Charles Darwin’s frog, Rana charlesdarwini Das, 1998: Phylogenetic position and generic placement, with taxonomic insights on other minervaryan frogs (Dicroglossidae: Minervarya) in the Andaman and Nicobar Archipelago. Vertebrate Zoology (72): 169–199 https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e79496

Biju SD, Garg S,  Gokulakrishnan G, Sivaperuman C, Thammachoti P,  Ren J, Gopika C, Bisht K, Hamidy A, and Shouche Y. 2020. New insights on the systematics and reproductive behaviour in tree frogs of the genus Feihyla, with description of a new related genus from Asia (Anura, Rhacophoridae), Zootaxa 4878 (1): 001-055 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.1