Biography
Madhab Chandra Dash, Indian ecologist and zoologist (Malatipatpur, Puri District, Odisha State 28 November 1939 –
Authored 250 research papers
Developed a technology called vermitechnology using earthworms for wasteland reclamation, enhancing plant production and composting (1980s) that a former pupil (B.K. Senapati) and the Frenchman P. Lavelle patented in France (1996)
Brought new knowledge on arribada (mass synchronised sea turtle nesting), which has drawn the attention of conservationists of the world
With J.K. Biswas, A. Banerjee, S. Majumder, N. Bolan & B. Seshadri. New extracellular polymeric substance producing enteric bacterium from earthworm, Metaphire posthuma: Modulation through cultrure conditions. Proceed. Zool. Soc. 72(2), 2017
DESCRIBED NEW TAXA
Oligochaeta
Species
Achaeta nurimineni 1978 with Thambi
Enchytraeus berhampurosus 1978 with Thambi
Enchytraeus syracussus 1981 with Mitchell
Fridericia canadensis 1972
Fridericia kalinga 1978 with Nanda & Thambi
Fridericia nielseni 1972
Fridericia vancouverensis 1983
Marionina canadensis 1970
Marionina craggi 1970
Marionina indica 1978 with Thambi
Marionina macfadyeni 1978 with Thambi
Protozoa (1983 with Guru)
Species
Difflugia indica
Subspecies
Difflugia lingula kalinga
Plagiopyxis callida minuta
Trinema lineare gigantea
HONORS
Dashiella Julka 1988 (Oligochaeta)
