Baini Prashad, Indian malacologist and ichthyologist (Kirtapur, Punjab 17 January 1894 – Calcutta 18 January 1969)

Discovered that the mantle was specifically responsible for the production of shell sculpture in Vivipariidae

DESCRIBED NEW TAXA

Mollusca

Genera

Balwantia 1919

Eocremnoconchus 1928

Eolymnium 1919

Indonaia 1918

Indopseudodon 1922

Saptadonta 1934

Sinonovacula 1924

With Annandale

Alocinma 1919

Astenothyra 1921

Atyscaphander 1924

Heudiella 1924

Parafossarulus 1924

Turbinicola 1921

Pisces

Genera (with Mukerji 1929)

Indostomus

Parasphaerichthys

Species

Glyptothorax burmanicus 1929 with Mukerji

Homaloptera rupicola 1929 with Mukerji

Indostomus paradoxus 1929 with Mukerji

Leptocephalus milnei 1919 with Southwell

Leptocephalus vermiculatus 1919 with Southwell

Microphis dunckeri 1929 with Southwell 

Olyra horae 1929 with Mukerji

Parasphaerichthys ocellatus 1929 with Mukerji

Pseudolaguvia tuberculata 1929 with Mukerji

Cestoda

Genera

Ilisha 1918 with Southwell

HONORS

Bainidiplosis Mani 1935 (Diptera)